Sharyl Attkisson Explains the Origins of the 2016 'Fake News' Narrative in TedX Talk
By
Debra Heine
February 14, 2018
In a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of weeks ago, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson revealed
the origins of the "fake news" narrative that was aggressively pushed
by the liberal media and Democrat politicians during the 2016 election,
and how it was later flipped by President Donald Trump.
Attkisson
pointed out that "fake news" in the form of tabloid journalism and
false media narratives has always been around under different names.
But
she noticed in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted effort by the MSM
to focus America's attention on the idea of "fake news" in conservative
media. That looked like a propaganda effort to Attkisson, so she did a
little digging and traced the new spin to a little non-profit called
"First Draft," which, she said, "appears to be the very first to use
'fake news' in its modern context."
"On
September 13, 2016, First Draft announced a partnership to tackle
malicious hoaxes and fake news reports," Attkisson explained. "The goal
was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven
conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To
relegate today's version of the alien baby stories to a special internet
oblivion."
She noted that a month later, then-President Obama chimed in. [Watch out for the Tin Pot Dictator!]
"He
insisted in a speech that he too thought somebody needed to step in and
curate information of this wild, wild West media environment," she
said, pointing out that "nobody in the public had been clamoring for any
such thing."
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