Schieffer: Most Info People Have is ‘Wrong’; Slams Money in Politics

Kyle Drennen | May 29, 2015
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

As CBS This Morning gave retiring Bob Schieffer a glowing send-off on Friday, the longtime Face the Nation moderator ripped the current media landscape: “Well, it's been turned upside down....we now don't know where people get their news, but what we do know is they're bombarded with information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the information is wrong and some of it wrong on purpose.”

He then proclaimed: “It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this maw of information and tell people what we think is relevant and what they need to know about. That is the job of the journalist.”

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