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“We are getting an artificial reality created by people who are putting out narratives,” Attkisson said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson discussed the state of the American media, in the wake of contested stories about President Trump.

Attkisson said she worked for three years at CNN, one of the organizations considered critical of the White House.

She said the over the past few years, there has been “a huge sea change” in the media’s position as an unbiased arbiter toward one that pushes narratives.

Attkisson said the mainstream media, like lobbyists, see Trump as a “threat” to their “establishment” culture and even their jobs.

In turn, she said the media has largely shifted to be critical of the White House at every turn.

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Sharyl Attkisson talked to Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Matt Boyle Friday about her new show, Full Measure with Sheryl Attkisson, as well as current events and an extremely disturbing trend. Elites have become adept at controlling media narratives, going so far as to ostracize reporters who “veer” from a particular narrative: “It’s certainly happening here in the United States,” said Attkisson.

Asked if American media appear to be aggressively pushing a particular narrative, specifically gun control in light of the recent terrorism in Orlando, Attkisson said:

I think they’ve been pushing narratives a lot for the last couple of years in a way I haven’t seen five years ago … ten years ago, for sure. It’s almost like someone’s given a license at the top. It used to be done kind of subtly, but now it’s sort of encouraged. It’s almost as if everybody’s on the same page now. I think it’s inappropriate. I think that different views should be represented. It doesn’t have to be 50-50 every time that every story has to be given equal time. But over time, different views should be heard, and we just don’t hear that anymore.

“I just got back from a conference in Russia, of all places, where global journalists gathered to talk about this as a trend globally, where government interests, corporate interests, special interests have learned how to use the news media,” Attkisson said, “how to use social media to control the narrative in ways, I think, more aggressively than has ever been done before.”

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