Jason Chaffetz
Former U.S. Representative
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âFrom âmostly-peaceful protestsâ to ignoring the lies that led to the Mueller investigation, the media increasingly gives us only the facts they want us to hear, packaged into the stories they need us to believe. Nobody explains this new dynamic better than Sharyl Attkisson. Throughout Slanted she exposes, based on speaking first hand with people at places she used to work, what is really happening at the biggest names in media. Prepared to be shocked and dismayed. It truly is worse than you think.â (from Amazon)
USA TODAY BESTSELLER! New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson takes on the mediaâs misreporting on Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Joe Biden, Silicon Valley censorship, and more. When the facts donât 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 whatâs new in the prepackaged soap opera theyâve been calling the news. For the past four years, five-time Emmy Awardâwinning 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 outletâfrom ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to FOX and MSNBCâspeak 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 âcuratingâ information and divining the âtruth.â The thinking is done for you. Theyâll decide which pesky facts shouldnât 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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âLou Dobbs hits the mark in this thoughtful and reasoned book. President Trump changed the course of history in such a dramatic and profound way that future presidents, no matter their party affiliation, are going to be making their case based on the direction Donald Trump took the nation. 'America First' was the president's agenda and Lou Dobbs walks us through how it will change America for the better now and throughout our lifetime. A great read that makes such profound sense.â (from Amazon)
How did Donald Trump almost single-handedly reverse Americaâs decline? As the 21st Century began, the worldâs only superpower was economically adrift, policing the world at the expense of American lives and trillions of dollars, weighed down by one-sided trade and security agreements with Europe and China ratified in a different era. Elites of both political parties battled over who would manage Americaâs decline from preeminent world power. In The Trump Century, the indomitable Lou Dobbs explains how Trump has steered the debate every day he has been in politics, greatly expanding what Washington thinks is possible. By 2016, the globalist elites demanded no one speak about limiting illegal immigration or securing our borders. The elites told you communist China would soon be like us, and the PC orthodoxy told you what you could or could not say. You were told Americaâs Middle Class could never grow again and wages would be stagnant into perpetuity. Trump reversed all of that as radical Democrats and the Deep State conspired to overthrow his Presidency, as the deadly pandemic raged, and orchestrated street protests and violent riots dominated news headlines. He not only made America great again but created a new standard for all future Presidents and likely has set the American agenda for the next hundred years. The Trump Century opens a window into Trumpâs thinking on the economy, foreign policy, and border security and will energize his allies when they realize the future theyâve shaped.
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