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WATCH: Sharyl Attkisson Compares Media To North Korea In Brutal Interview...
"People sense they're not getting an accurate picture..."
CN Jacob Airey
June 27, 2017
Tucker Carlson invited veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson onto his Fox News program to talk about the media’s lack of due diligence when it comes reporting the news of President Donald Trump.
Carlson asked about the reason CNN published a story that linked Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci to a Russia investment firm. CNN retracted the story and three journalists resigned as a result.
He said, "Overall, 93% of CNN's coverage of the Trump administration has been negative. 93%. Idi Amin would get more balanced coverage. Anybody would. Fidel Castro certainly has,” Carlson said. “CNN, in other words, is no longer just a news organization, it is a campaign with a political mission run, not surprisingly run by a man named Jeff Zucker who once expressed interest in running for office himself. Like any campaign, it is great at some things. Pushing a message, hurting opponents. And not so good at others like reporting the news. This is a change. How did it happen?"
Attkisson replied, "They would say a Hitleresque threat. That means they don't have of journalism in this case. I think it's more of a threat to the system of favors, money, and access that has been developed through what we have known as a political establishment.”
She went on to talk about how the pundits have taken over the newsrooms over true objective journalists saying, “This is a confluence of factors including we have now invited pundits and political operatives into our newsroom not just as commentators and pundits but also as reporters, anchors in editorial positions. So, sometimes there's little meaningful difference now I think between the people reporting the news and the political operatives who want to advance news narratives. That's a problem.”
She added, “I also think that the establishment, I'm talking Democrats, Republicans, and the media establishment have exempted themselves from the normal journalism rules and rules of political behavior because they see Donald Trump as such a big threat. They would say a Hitleresque threat. That means they don't have to follow the normal rules of journalism in this case. I think it's more of a threat to the system of favors, money, and access that has been developed through what we have known as a political establishment.”
Watch the interview below:

Attkisson explained to Carlson, "Washington survives on a system that has gone on for decades of access and money where people have spent decades paying into certain politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike, to make sure certain political hearings don't happen, to make sure certain laws have provisions written in. All of a sudden, overnight, all of that access they've bought, all the hard work they have done as lobbyists and so on is almost worthless if Trump's reality of Washington comes into play and nobody seems to like that.” She added, “The news media is suffering a credibility gap in general because it has decided to blur together like I have never seen before -- opinion and advocacy journalism with what I think people would like to think is more straight news, journalism, reporting of just the facts. I think that harm is going to take a long time to dial back if they even want to dial it back. And I'm not sure we do,”
Attkisson compared the media to North Korea’s method of disseminating information. “I kind of liken it in the extreme to the situation as it must be in North Korea. if you have a TV and can watch the news and it's going to be a version that's approved and put out by the state, I think in some respects we are getting artificial reality created by people who are putting out narratives, whether Democrats, Republicans, or corporate interests and people sense, at least some people, that they're not getting an accurate picture.” She continued, “And I think if you are like me, there is very little that I see reported on the news that I instantly believe without doing my own checking because so many formerly reputable news organizations have been proven to be 180 degrees wrong not just a little bit wrong.”
Sharyl Attkisson worked for CNN from 1990-1993 before moving to CBS to become an investigative journalist and anchor for  CBS News Up to the Minute. She later became a Capitol Hill correspondent before resigning over being forced to cease reporting on stories that portrayed the Obama Administration in a poor light.
Her first book about the ordeal, Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington was a New York Times bestseller. She is the current host Full Measure currently in syndication.

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