Seasoned Journalist Exposes How Mainstream Media Brainwashes The Public

[Ed Suspicious]

"Former CBS News investigative reporter Sheryl Attkisson discusses how to spot mainstream media lies."

http://livingresistance.com/2015/12/24/seasoned-journalist-exposes-how-mainstream-media-brainwashes-the-public/

[hlthe2b]

1. Seems to me that everything I've heard from Ms. Attkisson was very RW...

and promoting the old "liberal media bias".... So, while I have major issues with MSM, I'm not too keen to believe her take on the situation.

[Mbrow]

2. On the other hand,

this has been said over and over again in a lot of leftist circles for years..... K& R

[JonathanRackham]

3. How do we know she's telling the truth?

Hmmmmm

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Just for context, understand that she left CBS over the network's 'liberal bias' and she

is now employed by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is a tad to the right of Fox News. She was heavy into attacking Obamacare, among other things. Sinclair is the company that ran the Swift Boaters for Truth attack film against John Kerry in 2004, in 2010 for the midterms they ran a film accusing Obama's 08 campaign of being funded by Hamas. They quoted Obama as having said this: " "You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You gonna have to kill some of those babies." That was also the film that first attacked Van Jones, who did not survive in the administration. 2012 they aired 'specials' which used local anchors as hosts of editorial programming that trashed Obama and promoted Romney while pretending to be regular news segments.
So. I'm sure she makes some good points, but the fact of her having gone to work for the most actively dishonest conservative media group that exists does provide some context for her overall worldview.

[hfojvt]

12. yeah

well I bet you found that information about her on wiki, didn't you?

Admit it.

[rhett o rick]

5. I remember when all Democrats disparaged the Corp-Media.

But now that they are in Clinton's corner, some Democrats embrace the Corp-Media. Remember the Oligarchy said they will be happy with either a Clinton or Bush president. That should scare you.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. The problem here is that the journalist cited left CBS for being too liberal and now

works for Sinclair Broadcasting, probably the most right wing media group in the US. Sinclair is full tilt corporate media and practices the most deceptive and biased 'journalism' there is.

[doc03]

6. I don't see where anything she said is right wing, maybe the part about the

Redskins. She says 71% of the people don't think the name Redskins should be changed. How do I know she didn't just make up that number? The rest of what she says about drug companies I agree with. If she is talking about the MSM brainwashing people she should look at her employer. As far as Liberal Media, how can the media have a liberal bias when Trump is on every f----g news channel even so called liberal MSNBC channel 24/7.

[kentuck]

7. mainstream media means "liberal media"

to these folks. Lamestream media same.

[Archae]

9. Not only is she viciously anti-Obama, she's an anti-vaxxer.

Still claims vaccines cause autism.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/anti-vaccine-propaganda-from-sharyl-attkisson-of-cbs-news-2/

[Ed Suspicious]

10. You guys are right. The media only reports fairly.

They have no interest in setting a profitable narrative.

[hfojvt]

11. I don't care for the way she trashes wiki

I've been able to edit some things myself. One of my edits got changed, but in the end, the page was different than from when before I "tampered" with it.

Of course, that was a vitally important issue. The issue of whether to say

Smokey THE Bear

or whether to cave in to the propagandists of the 1990s and say

Smokey Bear.

Lives are at stake in that issue.

If people start saying Smokey Bear they might get bitten by a poisonous snake and then kill a chicken, a pig and a cow.

Don't laugh, it could happen.

You'll see.

Anyway, when there is something unknown, in your neighborhood. Who you gonna call?

Wikipedia.

If you wanna know how far Mars is from the sun.

erp, okay maybe that is a bad example because for some reason they give the answer in AU, or else GM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars

I know what an AU is, an Astronomical unit about 93 million miles, but I wasn't aware that General Motors had taken over measurements of distance. What is that supposed to be? A jigo meter? What the hell is a jigo meter? (supposed to be gigawatt, but Back to the Future called it a jigo-watt.)

If you want to know the atomic weight of beryllium.

wiki is there for ya. To the 7th decimal. 9.0121831 dammit not 9.0121833 you fool. You were WRONG. Execute your prime function! Execute your prime function!

If you wanna know the population of Spaichingen, where else are you gonna look? Wiki says 12,343. Spaichingen.de says

wait for it

keep waiting

shit, it was really hard to find, I thought it used to be on the front frigging page. I finally had to search the site for "einwohner" and I think it says

12,363. https://www.spaichingen.de/de/suche?&doInvestigate=1&languageId=1&query=einwohner&x=0&y=0

Close enough, it used to boggle my mind that those population numbers would change almost daily. In the US, you'd go by the 2010 census. Anyway, it sure was easier to find on wiki, and pretty darn accurate.

Plus, they are no longer spreading propaganda against Smokey THE Bear. (I think (eternal vigilance is the price of liberty).)

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Thanks Ed, I have seen some of this in the flesh