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i really think at least i have a time there i don't there much time jeffrey miron and grumpy sharyl attkisson recently in that barrack agree there had to be many such reporters who knew about this and decided to do nothing with it for 2 years beyond strategic leaking and that's what it's all but came to joe you know it's interesting from what we have heard from all of you the media is in the service of media and people that pay him and pay them and they're donors here but what about the public because the public is not as dumb as it is these people think i mean they feel so superior intellectually superior morally superior that they think it about who they're talking to and and i think that they will they are ruining the day because. as you know we look at this election which is not the topic of this program here but there's a lot of disillusion people here because of the role of the media go ahead joe there's no question about that but they are speaking to their own camps and they are confirming their biases and this is a very dangerous thing obviously if you're not getting a counter. viewpo

would caller: -- i would like to think c-span for having sharyl attkisson on.hink what she's doing is so necessary. the last four years was nothing but narrative. narrative has become fact for some people. they don't distinguish between what they're getting pushed to the fact. that scares me and scares the hell out of a lot of people. what we have to do is figure out how to decouple that from a political cause. i am a news junkie, i love c-span. c-span is very good at trying to keep some balance. the other channels do not. how do we decouple cnn and msnbc? how do we decouple them from being a propaganda arm from a political party? thank you. guest: even though i am not an expert analyst and can't tilde future, i don't see these news to whattions going back people saw them as they once were. these interests are talk about the tap become entrenched in interests i am talking about that have become entrenched in news, this happened years ago. i think it is more obvious in the past couple of years. i think the solution lies in different platforms where they can be n

would caller: -- i would like to think c-span for having sharyl attkisson on. i think what she's doing is so necessary. the last four years was nothing but narrative. narrative has become fact for some people. they don't distinguish between what they're getting pushed to the fact. that scares me and scares the hell out of a lot of people. what we have to do is figure out how to decouple that from a political cause. i am a news junkie, i love c-span. c-span is very good at trying to keep some balance. the other channels do not. how do we decouple cnn and msnbc? how do we decouple them from being a propaganda arm from a political party? thank you. guest: even though i am not an expert analyst and can't tilde future, i don't see these news to whattions going back people saw them as they once were. these interests are talk about the tap become entrenched in interests i am talking about that have become entrenched in news, this happened years ago. i think it is more obvious in the past couple of years. i think the solution lies in different platforms where they can

sharyl attkisson, i remember you when you were on cbs, was it? guest: and cnn and pbs.ler: it is refreshing to hear you and see you again. i have comments concerning what has been happening for the past four years if i may present my statements and comments. it seems as though for the last four years we have been divided not only by mr. trump but members of congress on one side of the aisle. that irks me. it irks a lot of people. it irked me when he became president in 2016. the moment the results came in the following day, the following morning, i was on a local radio station. i was a regular caller. i told the host that he is the curse of america and it has been proven to be so. guest what you want our to address? caller: what i want her to address is the censorship that the president tried to place upon the media. pedro: that is jim in new jersey. go ahead. sharyl: i have not studied it from that view. there are plenty who have written about what they think trump has done wrong. what they think he has done to the press. i focus instead on topics that i believe are un

. -- sharyl atkinson attkisson.ou have written books taking a look at the media, what does this book have apart from the others. ofst: it is the evolution the death of the news which has been observed by most of the people listening and watching today but don't necessarily know what is behind it. in this book i talk about what is happening with social media. this trend in social media is born of the same time of putting coed corporate interest that has controlled news narratives before the focused on social media and internet because they thought the public could still get unfettered access and viewpoints and people so they decided to figure out started that and have done so successfully how to control the information we see online. host: we heard about social media leading up to the election. you are saying before then these trends were happening? guest: right. big tech for all of its flaws and invading our privacy was not interested in interceding between us and information until 2016 when they were lobbied to do

sharyl attkisson, she's investigative journalistt t ande host of the national television news program the measure. for 30 years ms. attkisson was a correspondent and anger at cbs news, pbs, cnn and local news. ms. attkisson has authored several books on u.s. politics, the media and government abuses. ms. attkisson has received five emmy awards from the edward arm rural award of investigative reporting and ms. attkisson. >> thank you, good morning everybody. i've been a nonpartisan journalist for nearly 40 years in local news, cnn, cbs, tbs and the national station groups sinclairou and was witness a dramatic devolution in my industry as we allowed ourselves to be transformed into tools of political and corporate interest pushing narratives, planting information on the news and online and seeking to shake public opinion rather than report facts and various views. this means today's media has allowed some of the biggest and most important stories of our time to be covered in a and testicle andlo one-sided often inaccurate and incomplete way or perhaps escape covered entirely while impor