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(WATCH) A glimpse at "Slanted" media coverage and a book that examines it

Dated: June 17, 2021 by Staff Leave a Comment

      

(Original air date 11/22/20)

The following is a transcript of a report from "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson." Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page.

Taking a moment out now for a page from my new book โ€œSLANTED: How the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism.โ€ It traces the devolution of the news as we once knew it. Exhibit One is the historic trend of major media mistakes in the era of Trump forming a disturbing pattern.

Announcer: And now, the President and First Lady of the United States will take their first dance.

Sharyl: The tone was set on President Trumpโ€™s first official day in office

CNN claimed Nancy Sinatra was

โ€œnot happyโ€ about her father Frank Sinatraโ€™s song โ€œMy Wayโ€ being used at Trumpโ€™s inauguration.

Music: I did it my way.

Nancy Sinatra responded on Twitter, โ€œThatโ€™s not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN? Actually Iโ€™m wishing him the best.โ€

Meantime, Time incorrectly reported that President Trump had removed the bust statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., from the Oval Office.

That false news went viral.

In February, TMZ reported Trump had changed the name Black History Month to African American History Month, implying the change was racist.

Please show Obama, Bush and Clinton

In fact, it turns out Presidents Obama, George W. Bush, and Clinton all called Black History Month African American History Month.

Also, The Washington Post reported on the โ€œCabinet Battle over Trumpโ€™s Immigration Order.โ€ The article was repeatedly โ€œupdatedโ€ to note that one of the reported meetings did not actually occur, a conference call did not happen as described in the article and actions attributed to Trump were actually carried out by his chief of staff.

And The New York Times reported on supposed contacts between Trump campaign staff and โ€œsenior Russian intelligence officials.โ€

FBI director James Comey later testified, it โ€œwas not true.โ€

Sen. Jim Risch: That report by the NYT was not true. Is that a fair statement?

James Comey: In the main it was not true.

In May, the BBC and The Guardian reported because Trump wasnโ€™t wearing headsets, he didnโ€™t bother to listen to the translation of a speech by Italyโ€™s prime minister.

But Trump was wearing his earpiece in his right ear, as always, said the White House.

June 2017, NBC News reported that Russian President Putin said he had compromising information about Trump. Actually, Putin said the opposite.

Megyn Kelly: Do you have something damaging on our President?

President Putin: Well, this is just another load of nonsense. Where would we get this information from?

CNN and ABC falsely reported that FBI director Comey was going to refute Donald Trumpโ€™s claim that Comey told Trump three times he wasnโ€™t under investigation. Instead, Comey confirmed Trumpโ€™s claim under oath.

Sen. Susan Collins: It appears you actually volunteered that assurance. Is that correct?

Comey: Thatโ€™s correct.

CNN retracted a report claiming Congress was investigating a โ€œRussian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.โ€

Newsweek reported Polandโ€™s first lady refused to shake Trumpโ€™s hand, but later acknowledged she did.

CNN edited a video to make it appear as though Trump impatiently dumped a box of fish food into the water in Japan. The full video showed Trump had simply followed the lead of Japanโ€™s prime minister.

Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal falsely reported Special Counsel Robert Mueller had subpoenaed Trumpโ€™s bank records.

AP reported a new survey showed trust in the media had fallen during the Trump presidency.

But the survey was actually conducted under President Obama.

The New York Times said a hypothetical familyโ€™s tax bill would rise nearly $4,000 under Trumpโ€™s tax plan. It turns out their taxes would actually go down $43.

The New York Times and CNN shared a story with photos of immigrant children in cages. It turns out the photos were from 2014 during the Obama administration.

In December 2018, NBC reported Trump was the first president since 2002 not to visit the troops at Christmastime.

But Trump actually left the White House on Christmas to visit troops in Iraq.

ABC aired video purportedly showing a โ€œslaughterโ€ and โ€œhorrific report of atrocitiesโ€ against Kurds by Turkey after President Trump withdrew US troops.

ABC News: This video right here appearing to show Turkeyโ€™s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town.

But the video was file tape of a training video in the US.

In November 2019, Newsweek falsely reported that President Trump was spending Thanksgiving golfing in Florida.

He was actually in Afghanistan serving dinner to US troops.

CBS aired a story in March of 2020 supposedly showing a New York hospital crowded with coronavirus patients.

CBS News: Itโ€™s all hands on deck in Americaโ€™s hospitals.

It was actually file tape from Italy. A week later, CBS News mistakenly used the Italy video again.

Sharyl (on camera): Those are just a few examples. SLANTED, examines whatโ€™s behind this trend and also takes a deep dive into the very public devolution of the New York Times and CNN where I used to work. SLANTED is available for preorder today.

https://fullmeasure.news/news/shows/slanted

Order "Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism" by Sharyl Attkisson today at Harper Collins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound, Bookshop!


      
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