{"id":870,"date":"2014-10-30T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=870"},"modified":"2014-10-30T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T10:27:10","slug":"20-year-cbs-news-veteran-sharyl-attkisson-details-massive-censorship-and-propaganda-in-mainstream-media-liberty-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"20-Year CBS News Veteran, Sharyl Attkisson, Details Massive Censorship and Propaganda in Mainstream Media | Liberty Blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/10\/29\/20-year-cbs-news-veteran-sharyl-attkisson-details-massive-censorship-and-propaganda-in-mainstream-media\/\">20-Year CBS News Veteran, Sharyl Attkisson, Details Massive Censorship and Propaganda in Mainstream Media | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\">Journalists should be dark, funny, mean people.\u00a0It\u2019s appropriate for their antagonistic, adversarial role.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">\u2013 Matt Taibbi, in this\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/03\/matt-taibbi-on-wall-street-first-look-media.html\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\">New York Magazine<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\">Reporters on the ground aren\u2019t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the same papers and think the same thoughts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\">Often they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into \u201ccasting agents,\u201d told \u201cwe need to find someone who will say . . .\u201d that a given policy is good or bad. \u201cWe\u2019re asked to create a reality that fits their New York image of what they believe,\u201d she writes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">\u2013 From the excellent\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\">New York Post<\/em>\u00a0article:\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/10\/25\/former-cbs-reporter-explains-how-the-liberal-media-protects-obama\/\">Ex-CBS reporter\u2019s book reveals how liberal media protects\u00a0Obama<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">Earlier this week, I published a piece titled,\u00a0<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" title=\"Permanent Link to Former CBS Reporter Accuses Government of Secretly Planting Classified Docs on Her Computer\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/10\/27\/former-cbs-reporter-accuses-government-of-secretly-planting-classified-docs-on-her-computer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Former CBS Reporter Accuses Government of Secretly Planting Classified Docs on Her Computer<\/a><\/strong>, which I thought was incredible in its own right, yet the information in that post seems almost trite compared to the flood of information\u00a0Attkisson has revealed to the\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\">New York Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Kyle Smith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">The following excerpts from the piece will confirm all of your worst suspicions about mainstream media:<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-Year CBS News Veteran, Sharyl Attkisson, Details Massive Censorship and Propaganda in Mainstream Media | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Journalists should be dark, funny, mean people.\u00a0It\u2019s appropriate for their antagonistic, adversarial role. \u2013 Matt Taibbi, in this\u00a0New York Magazine\u00a0article Reporters on the ground aren\u2019t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[462,496,655],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-journalism","tag-mainstream-media","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}