Epoch INSIGHT Issue 17

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Nation Profile

THOUGHT LEADERS

‘Truth Finds a Way to Be Told’ Looking for reality in a time of propaganda and slanted narratives

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Sharyl Attkisson, investigative journalist and news host, in Leesburg, Va., on Jan. 14.

ou can get information online,” investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson says, “but trust your cognitive dissonance and talk to the people around you. You’ll get a whole different picture of what’s really happening.” In this episode of "American Thought Leaders," host Jan Jekielek talks about censorship and finding truth with Sharyl Attkisson, host of "Full Measure" and author of “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.” JAN JEKIELEK: Sharyl,

I’ve been thinking about your book "Slanted." You wrote this pre-COVID. I think you were seeing something profound, earlier than many were. SHARYL ATTKISSON:

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Prior to 2015, there was no big movement begging Big Tech or third parties or fact-checkers to get between us and our information online or on the news. Yet here we are just a couple of years later where


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