Sharyl Attkisson Reddit AMA

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r/conspiracy
I am Sharyl Attkisson, journalist and author, I was spied on by the government and am currently suing them, AMA!
u/SafeComfortable

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My goal is to report on underreported stories and angles; to fight censorship and narratives. Favored issues include: whistleblowers, national security, government and corporate corruption, waste/fraud/abuse of taxpayer money, media ethics, fraudulent charities, border issues. I try to bring to light facts and views that powerful interests want to cover up. I've been accused of being liberal, and there's also been an orchestrated campaign by various interests to portray me as conservative and anti-vaccine. In fact, most of my stories don't involve political topics (though it seems, today, most everything can be made into one). I've been nominated for a dozen or so Emmy awards for nonpolitical work investigating topics such as the Red Cross, Firestone Tires, taxpayer waste and medicine and vaccine adverse events. I try to be fair, I open my mind and follow the facts, and I work hard to suspend m own personal opinions from the stories I do.

My goal isn't to try to convince you or tell you what to believe; I want to bring to light little known facts and information. What you do with them is your business. I've written two books that became NYT bestsellers: The Smear and Stonewalled.

Bring it on.

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SafeComfortable • 2h
Yes, I have written about the origins of the effort to "vilify" the whole notion of "conspiracy theories" and "conspiracy theorists" which is documented to have begun or been used by the CIA (it's in The Smear). Mark Crispin Miller and others are good on this topic. Conspiracy theories weren't considered controversial until the phrase was intentionally controversialized; after all, so much IS a conspiracy under the very definition of the word: Bonnie and Clyde, the Mafia, the KKK, a bank robbery involving more than one person, Enron, corporate fraud, you name it. It's unclear to me why the propaganda use of the phrase has been so successful except I guess most people don't really examine it and it just seems to work. There is talk about all the ex- intel officials who happen to be accused in alleged surveillance abuses who have been placed, er--hired, at news organizations. Normally these types used to keep their heads low. Now they espouse propaganda daily-- and we let them. I don't know what NWO is. There are shadow structures, as I have learned, but I'm not sure whether they are more pockets of persistent bureaucracies or well organized larger structures.

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