Tuesday, June 03, 2014

News media ‘censor or block stories’ that don’t match their agenda

Sharyl Attkisson, an award-winning investigative reporter who resigned this year after 20 years with CBS news, says the news media are heading down a dangerous path to “censor or block stories” that don’t align with their preferred agenda.

Fox News is infamous for skewing its reports to pander to its conservative viewers, but if all media do the same for their constituents, what happens to objective journalism? Fair and balanced becomes just a slogan.

Attkisson, senior independent contributor to The Daily Signal, published investigative report about oxygen trials conducted on premature babies in the new news organization.

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2 comments:

Mike Williams said...

Visited the Daily Signal website, found most of the articles were by folks working for or connected with the Heritage Foundation. I wonder if Sheryl Atkinson will have the editorial freedom she seeks there.

Mike Williams said...

Sharyl Attkisson, sorry (sp)