“Here’s what’s frightening to me,” Attkisson said. “I routinely have conversations now with other journalists, with sources and members of Congress who refer to the idea that they think our phone calls are probably being monitored and the computers — but there’s not really outrage. It’s sort of like, ‘We better not talk on the phone. Let’s talk about this in person.’ Where’s the outrage?” Attkisson said much of the reason people have stopped standing up to government has to do with a new industry “most people don’t know about that’s built up in Washington, D.C.” She said there are a number of PR companies that can be hired by anyone — including political interests — to do “character assassination, [a] propaganda campaign against any news story, any reporter … any whistle-blower … any politician that asks the tough questions.” “They’re targeted by a sophisticated campaign that employs social media, fake Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts, edits Wikipedia,” Attkisson said, adding that “you cannot understate the importance of this industry.” “It’s very expansive and insidious and … if you don’t know it’s there, you won’t realize the extent to which the images you see every day are being manipulated by these paid interests,” Attkisson said. The five-time Emmy award winning journalist said if there was only one more thing she could tell the American people, it would be to “wipe the fog off your figurative glasses and look at the propaganda campaign surrounding you.”
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