Investigative Journalist For CBS News Exposes How Mainstream Media Brainwashes The PublicBy Amanda Froelich This startling truth has become more commonly accepted in recent years, especially since Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-based initiative to control mainstream media, was exposed. Popular avenues of information are now bombarded with clever marketing tactics telling the public what to think and what to buy, how to look, and where to spend hard-earned dollars. Such is evident once you wake up and note the blatant lies continuing to spam the TV screen and newspaper headlines especially concerning the topics of health, food, war (terrorism), poverty, and more. Sadly, people arent even aware of how brainwashed theyve become. Thats where Sharyl Attkisson comes in. For her eye-opening TEDx talk (below), the veteran investigative journalist (and former CBS News investigative reporter) reveals how astroturf, or fake grassroots movements, funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages. Its time the populace wake up and question everything with integrity. Comment your thoughts below and share this news! This article (Investigative Journalist For CBS News Exposes How Mainstream Media Brainwashes The Public) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and Trueselfnews.com Thank you Sharyl Attkisson!and IH for airing this great clip! and notice the color codes red/blue opposites as above so below. With new google filters it will become harder harder to get real independent info as you will be directed to the accepted norm . and lastly, stay away from any big pharma drugs and look into alternative medicine Keep away from pharmaceuticals altogether, especially vaccines. Also avoid doctors because most are a menace to our and our childrens health. Erwin you are absolutely correct about avoiding doctors. Sadly I am prescribed a thyroid medication and every three months I am forced to trek back to the doc. It is something I absolutely dread as I feel like I am a $ sign and thats it. I am continually hounded to have an ECG, breathing test or a nerve test while in the doctors waiting room. They even call my house to remind be to have a physical. At every visit it is required to have blood pressure taken, get weighed in, and then provide a urine sample. OR the front desk will not hand over my prescription. I am looking for another doctor, but most have a long waiting list. Thanks for the response Dd. In some instances doctors are useful or necessary, or may even save ones life, so I guess that like cars, they are a necessary evil. Concerning your thyroid problem, I suggest you also consult a natural health practitioner and/or a homeopath. Best wishes! Dd. Take a look into eastern medicine and get away from western trained doctors. They have only one thing they do and that is to treat the symptoms instead of the root cause of your medical problem(s). I started using eastern medical methods back in the late 70s and havent had to see a regular doctor for anything other than a few stitches since then. Big pharma doesnt want people to know that Mother Nature provides EVERYTHING we need to keep ourselves healthy because it would lower their profits. It is just a matter of learning which herb or supplement it needed and most eastern trained doctors will know whats needed to treat the CAUSE instead of the symptom. Speaking of research and drugs, I just happened to be flipping around on the Tell-Lie-Vision, (which is rare), and came across Dr. Oz teaching his audience how to properly search for drug or medical information on Google. Dig this he stated that unless the website ends with .gov OR .edu it shouldnt be trusted, but then went on to say to scroll through a couple of pages, not looking at the first two or three listed. Startpage is a fairly good search engine that doesnt track your internet searches. My first source after reading ALL of the product package insert [which you must insist on] is to check out medical lawsuits sites. Then I check out patient blogs for the REAL story as to the side effects efficacy of the product. Assume the rare side effect will probably be me as I am extremely chemically sensitive a slow metabolizer. Science journals are also helpful as there are always studies online; if not for the drug then for the illness what really works or doesnt. As though those pure thinking .gov and .edus dont have any agendas or research grants or donors or lobbyists to pander towe are really in trouble if we really think about it. That was my first thought .gov and .edu are the first ones I avoid. If people want the facts they need to look at ALL sides of the argument and make an informed decision. When you have mainstream telling us how to do research, that should be a major red flag. I always find these kinds of posts amusing: shock! big corporations own the media. What they never talk about is jWHO the particular people, what their ethnic, racial, religious, ideological origins are. As Voltaire said, if you want to know who rules over you just find out who you cant criticize. CBS, MTV, Paramount, Viacom, NBC, Universal, ABC, Disney, CNN, Time, FOX, WSJ, NYT and many many more under their control. Ask Marlon Brando and Gary Oldham. Excellent job. We need more hatred and segregation to bring us together, very smart! Thank you very much for the lesson. How can we survive so much manipulation? This is an outstanding video. A must watch for every rube that references Snopes, and other controlled sources. Whats wrong with Snopes? The RWNJs dont like Snopes anymore. They preferred to be lied to. SNOPES WORKS FOR THE CIA, COMMON KNOWLEDGE, SHRILL MUCH? Snopes is a JOKE, the owners have literally NO BACKGROUND WHATSOEVER in investigative journalism, none..zilch..NADA. But thanks for playing Funny, years ago, you redencks were all about Snopes. I used to see, FACT: Snopes says all of the time until you idiots didnt like the truth. Hardheaded, ignorant inbred rednecks Never knew Liberals were Rednecks aka CNN,MSNBC,ABC,NBC.They all use these fraudulant two people as fact! Nah, I used to get emails years ago from all of the RWNJs/Rednecks that I knew with NEOCON BS with the following: FACT! Check Snopes! Snopes had problems 2014, they were taken over apparently. You say that like its a bad thing. The people with backgrounds in investigative journalism (whatever thats supposed to mean) are largely the exact same people who have been manipulating us and lying to us for decades. Research is research. If someone gives sources, you can verify it for yourself. Nobody needs permission from a university or from other journalists just to research matters and publish the research to even think in that way is to intentionally place your knowledge base in the hands of strangers. And no, nothing of the above means Im defending Snopes or that I believe them as a source or authority. Did you watch the video? Snopes is two frauds sitting in their garage,funded by George Soros 1. They have a political preference and it taints their willingness to address issues which challenge their views. For example: years ago when they were first starting out I had an extensive email flame war with them denying that the many proven cases of phallic symbols and such in Disney movies were put in there on purpose. Their opinion was that it was probably not in the script and the inclusions were rogue animatorsas though that meant they were not in fact there. It was the most want to bang your head to the desk things I had ever experienced. And you cant block Snopes on Facebook I blocked quite a few,but when you type snopes to block it,it doesnt even show up! Hi Gary, FB has become another way to control the narrative, and censor what they dont like, whilst keeping tabs on users. She keeps making weird smacking noises with her mouth. Really annoying to hear, and makes it hard to pay attention to what shes saying, but anyway shes promoting uncertainty. Probably to make you feel like you dont know what to believe to shake your resolve. She worked with these groups before do people think shes just gonna have a change of heart? On top of that do people think her old bosss arent gonna have something to say about it even if she did? After all their the reference on her resume. I find it interesting how various persons and organizations have attempted to scapegoat the marvelously brave efforts of Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson spreads accurate information, and the attempt to uncover, acquire and publicize accurate information. Revealing the organized, and well-planned deceit of the Disinformation Program of the CIA and other USGov agencies has awakened many Americans. Unless youre going to name all the recent presidents as being pawns, focusing only on Obama makes your position suspect. Perhaps, suspect from your viewpoint, although your point has some validity. Im in. Theyre all puppets and pawns. It goes back farther than that. Eisenhower I believe, possibly even more. When infiltrating other countries they didnt have the numbers, (boots on the ground) so the cia use psyops and media to convince them they had many. Its been refined quite a bit since then. here is the thing, we all have instincts , and so deep down MOST of us can FEEL the truth by weighing up multiple factors in the equation. But the truth is that most people are sheeple who want desperately to belong, and as such do not even care what is the truth as long as they are continually perceived as being part of the majority, so they are willing dupes , regardless of whether or not they suffer cognitive dissonance And folks that pretty much sums it up. What a great comment! I would like to post it up on my Facebook page. SEan Barr, that is a well thought out comment and I agree. I think of myself as an antisheeple and always question daily material. Saying that, I even question the speaker and her motives for presenting this subject and one can think of many, good and evil and in between motives. Fluoridation and public schools are pipsqueaks (probably even nonexistent) compared to the Corporate Media and its biased flow of information. Her attacks on the Wikipedia may have some degree of basis, but her overall presentation of what goes on in Wikipedia is largely false with a misunderstanding of how Wikipedia works. Wikipedia makes me want to vomit with theyre so and so said this or such and such printed an expose like that as though it somehow contributes to any factual information about things. Try finding any criticism about how Sandy Hook was handled or controversey about the events of 9/11 in there.. just a coincidence, right? She is ( was ) an insider that is all i need to know . One thing though WHY NOW ? Just because you come out say this NOW does not get you a pass lady . tc all . sounds like they dubbed the voice her lips arent matching up We will know it is true and validated when she has been killed. Sadly. Otherwise, ?? wow talk about the tip of the iceberg. This goes so so much deeper than astroturf. CBS (and this reporter) is as guilty as any MSM outlet for obscuring reality to the point that 98% of Americans are utterly clueless about the nature of reality around them. If you dont already know about the truth of the 9-11 operation, youre in the dark ages when it comes to understanding the truth about this nation. The Wikipedia thing is definitely true. My brother has a Wiki page (hes a television writer) and when I tried to correct some errors on his page (including his birthday, which is the SAME DAY AS MINE), the corrections were immediately deleted and the editor told me I was not a credible source of information. On my own brother. Sunshine excercise and real food. yep. does wonders for the cognitive processes. Ive tried to find water filters that filter fluoride and I cant find any, they all say they dont block fluoride because its so good for our teeth, problem is, I wear dentures and I Dont want fluoride. Get a Reverse Osmosis system. You need something that filters out everything except water molecules themselves. Fluoride ions are larger than the oxygen atom (slightly) and hydrogen atoms. Youll probably need something that either filters by charge (difficult to do since water has a strong, single, negative dipole and fluoride ions are negatively charged), shape (water has a specific shape due to electrostatic interactions) or biologically filters out water. Thank you for this great article. Glad the truth is out. What does an open minded inclusive lib call any opposing view? Well, at least you didnt use libtard, thank you Its not just the medical and big pharma using this tactic. Environmental groups have been doing the same thing in California for years now to shut down gold prospectors. They CLAIM that suction dredge mining causes mercury to be released into the waters of the state when in fact they actually clean up 98% of the mercury they dredge up. They paid for a study and when the results were published, it turns out that the Scientist that was in charge of it was actually on the board of directors for The Sierra Fund. Its all misdirection so the people will either not know what theyre really up to or be so upset because of their rhetoric that they will vote the way the environmentalists want them to vote so their agenda keeps moving forward. Only the idiots that ARE brainwashed dont believe it. are you still drinking tapwater? This is all true, but it has nothing to do with critical thinking. Critical thinking requires asking questions, exchanging ideas challenging the status quo. Govt schools, MSM even churches tell us what to think,say,do feel constantly. Fluoride has now been proven [50 new studies -www.fluoridealert.org] to lower IQ and cause many other debilitating health problems so how can it NOT have to do with critical thinking? Well, you clearly drank way too much fluoride. I know a guy who distrusts the media; now he lives in a straw hovel out in the woods without running water and has to defecate in a bucket. Just shows how the media needs to be stopped. Is this Media? I am to believe this why? well its kind of how publicity works, but it seems to me that some of this tactics can only work if there are two conditions, first the target audience doesnt know about the subject, and second if there is a majority pushing for a specific point of view. lets take vaccines and autism. And so on, since it seems to me that the techniques in the video can be applied and maybe are apllied to any subject, but they can easily be debunked, even more so if there is knowledge of the subject. Who owns Agence France-Presse, Associated Press and Reuters? Ahahaha! This article actually refers you to wikipedia as a source for info on Operation Mockingbird. Thank you very much. Think Im going to buy the big berkey. Definitely, good call on Berkey. Crystal Quest works if you just want a small counter top unit for one tap. Good advice, and just for those who do not know what real food is, it means NON GMO Dont have the link handy but some of you may have read about the connection between fluoride and the calcification of the pineal gland located in center of brain between eyes often referred to as the third eye. The third eye has traditionally been associated with higher levels of consciousness, creativity and intuition. The singular greatest failure in Western Culture in the 20th Century and that still goes on into the 21st is the move by the Media then it departed from any sense of neutrality and into the lucrative oceans of agenda-based reporting. This failure affects everyone on the planet and is catastrophic in its scope. When the meat and potatoes of Objective Truth is abandoned in favour of a relativistic thin gruel, the very foundations of a society are at extreme risk. 