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Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism | Sharyl Attkisson
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New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson takes on the medias misreporting on Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Joe Biden, Silicon Valley censorship, and more. When the facts dont fit their Narrative, the media abandons the facts, not the Narrative. Virtually every piece of information you get through the media has been massaged, shaped, curated, and manipulated before it reaches you. Some of it is censored entirely. The news can no longer be counted on to reflect all the facts. Instead of telling us what happened yesterday, they tell us whats new in the prepackaged soap opera theyve been calling the news. For the past four years, five-time Emmy Awardwinning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson has been collecting and dissecting alarming incidents tracing the shocking devolution of what used to be the most respected news organizations on the planet. For the first time, top news executives and reporters representing every major national television news outletfrom ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to FOX and MSNBCspeak frankly, confiding in Attkisson about the death of the news as they once knew it. Their concern transcends partisan divides. Most frightening of all, a broad campaign in the media has convinced many Americans not only to accept but to demand censorship over journalism. It is a stroke of genius on the part of those seeking to influence public opinion: undermine public confidence in the news, then insist upon curating information and divining the truth. The thinking is done for you. Theyll decide which pesky facts shouldnt cross your desk by declaring them false, irrelevant, debunked, unsafe, or out-of-bounds. We have reached a state of utter absurdity, where journalism schools teach students that their own, personal truth or chosen narratives matter more than reality. In Slanted, Attkisson digs into the language of propagandists, the persistence of false media narratives, the driving forces behind today's dangerous blend of facts and opinion, the abandonment of journalism ethics, and the new, Orwellian definition of what it means to report the news.
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It's been about 5 years since my family gave up watching the news for the side-ed-ness that we felt we were being spoonfed. Having a journalist call out her own occupation only further emphasizes how far society has allowed reporting to go. It's not about sides, the country deserves to hear both sides of the news and be allowed to come to their own conclusions. Leave the narratives to authors of stories, not current events/news.

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Jan 2021 - random choice NF - regardless of politics an interesting take on modern journalism. I have enjoyed listening and watching the news while seeing what was discussed and extended that understanding to conversations with my family. Will piss people off

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I signed up for the Mount TBR 2021 challenge on Goodreads and pledged to pull 50% of my reads for the year off my current bookshelves, with the caveat being that the books must have already been owned by 12/31/20. So going out now and stocking up on more books is totally NOT cheating the system and definitely does NOT defeat the purpose of the challenge. Right? Guys? Anyone?

Cuilin I grant you full permission to buy more books 🪄📚📚📚 4y
Amiable @Cuilin Thank you! Now I will not feel guilty about packing my already overfilled shelves to ensure that I will have enough things I want to read in my house. 😄 4y
ravenlee I‘ve been doing Mount TBR on my own this year, and in recent months I‘ve been struck by the kind of ridiculousness - in January I could read a book I‘d purchased a week earlier, but in December a book I bought in January doesn‘t count? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Still, I have made a lot of progress through my massive backlog so I‘m happy with it. 4y
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Amiable @ravenlee I did the official GR Mount TBR for a couple of years and managed to clear off some of my backlog. But the way I continue to buy books, it‘s like trying to shovel the driveway while it‘s still snowing. Not much visible progress. 😄 4y
ravenlee I think overall it‘s made me more aware of the books on my shelves, which I tend to gloss over because they‘re just part of the scenery. I‘m making more of a conscious effort to read things that have been sitting for too long. There‘s a good number of “why did I ever buy this in the first place” as well as “good enough to read once but not keep” so at least there‘s some progress there...which is by far outstripped by the influx of new. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4y
Amiable @ravenlee I agree— I‘ve had some books so long that they are like wallpaper now. It‘s good to take a fresh look at them. My husband and I downsized and moved two years ago, which really helped me to focus on why I still had certain books and make a hard decision about whether I would actually ever read them. No point in moving stuff I won‘t use! It was freeing to clear the stacks and make room for books that suit me now. 4y
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