Slanted

How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism

By: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrated by: Sharyl Attkisson

New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson takes on the media’s misreporting on Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Joe Biden, Silicon Valley censorship, and more.

When the facts don’t 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 what’s new in the prepackaged soap opera they’ve been calling the news.

For the past four years, five-time Emmy Award–winning 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 outlet—from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to FOX and MSNBC—speak 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. They’ll decide which pesky facts shouldn’t 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.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

A warning from a reliable source with good access

Ms. Attkisson may be one of the last true American journalists left in America. This is a thoroughly researched, fact-based expose of the media industry in America. She reveals corporate media to be a heavily left-biased activist entity devoid of any journalistic integrity, and little morality. Read this book instead of watching the news and you will become smarter.

Couldn't put this down!

Should be required reading in Journalism school, if only to remind the up and coming next generation of truth seeking "journalists" what a real reporter looks like.

Should be required reading by so-called anchors at every so called news outlet.

Informative

This is an interesting book that spells out the issues we are seeing with media bias and gives background, context, and examples. Eye opening topic that will encourage people to dig into issues for themselves rather than just believe media narratives.

A Real Eye Opener

This book is a real eye opener. It should be on everyone's read list. I highly recommend this book!

its a great read

as if you didn't know the media was biased...this book really shows her personal journey of dealing with it. really informative. worth the read.