The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
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The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
In March 2017, the Google-funded nonprofit First Draft announces “A Field Guide to Fake News,” which includes a category described as “anti-liberal” fake news sites, but none that are “anti-conservative.” Apparently, under the definition used by First Draft and its partners, there aren’t any left-leaning bad actors that are worthy of mention.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
In April 2016, after a debate performance that’s widely viewed as disastrous for Hillary, Correct The Record is at the ready to declare the opposite: “Good Night for Hillary, Bad Night for Bernie.”
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
We’ve invited political operatives into our fold as consultants, pundits; and even made them reporters, anchors, and managers in our newsrooms. We’ve become a willing receptacle for, and distributor of, daily political propaganda. And because we invite both sides to feed us, we call it fair. In many ways, some media outlets have become little more
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Yet while the Times sits on news of the FBI investigation into the Clinton charity, it finds it much more newsworthy that Trump’s charity paid $20,000 for a portrait of Trump. And the Times jumps on the news when New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman, a Clinton supporter, opens an aptly timed investigation into the Trump Foundation. In
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Transactional journalism refers to the friendly, mutually beneficial relationships that have developed between reporters and those on whom they report. It’s when the relationships cross a line beyond chumminess and the players strike clandestine business deals, whether formally or implicitly, to report on people and topics a certain way.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
But the real scandal is another case of selective editing by the media: they edited out remarks made by Hillary Clinton, who had also referred to the attack as a bombing—just like Trump.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Vox, the left-wing website headed by a liberal blogger named Ezra Klein, pans 13 Hours in an extensive blog based solely on the trailer, if you can believe it, not the actual film.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Y]ou can’t throw a dart at the White House Correspondents Dinner without hitting someone who has been involved in quote approval, ground rule negotiation, source obfuscation—and every other routine thing that goes on every day, on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the equation,” Reines tells Wemple in the email. “And with all due respect,
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Some of the most successful character assassins tend to speak and think in paranoid undertones—justifiably so. After all, they operate in a realm where people really are out to get one another.