Sharyl Attkisson - True Journalist
Posted on 03/20/2014 9:40:11 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Published on Thursday, 20 March 2014 11:12
Written by Roger Aronof
Sharyl Attkisson - True Journalist
Sharyl Attkisson has been “liberated” from her post at CBS, finally resigning after months of rumors of a rocky relationship with the broadcast news company. It turns out that she planned on leaving CBS a full year ago, but was persuaded not to at the time. Now the American mainstream media have lost one of the greats of modern journalism.
According to her CBS biography, Attkisson received several Emmys for her work at CBS, but not all was well in her relationship, as she began to be utilized less and less on the nightly news. “Andrew Tyndall’s quantitative analyses of network news trends” shows that Attkisson had 160 minutes of nightly news exposure in 2007. This had dropped to 54 minutes in 2013, according to Erik Wemple with The Washington Post.
Attkisson told Fox News in a brief interview that this wasn’t about her getting air time, but “the idea that so few of the incredibly interesting and important original and investigative topics I brought to the table, often exclusively, could find no home at CBS in the past three years or so.”
Regrettably, there have been longstanding suggestions in the liberal media that Attkisson was biased, and that’s why she didn’t exactly fit in. “Attkisson is a dogged reporter, driven by a strong skepticism of government,” wrote POLITICO in 2013. “Her drive can produce great journalism, but it can also cause her to push stories to the point that colleagues, especially those of a more progressive bent, suspect a political agenda.” The key here is the phrase “those of a more progressive bent.”
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She may have been silenced as a reporter, however, it is early to tell the impact of her book on the 2014 elections. Hope it is there in time to spread “Daylight Disinfectant”.
This is how dissent is suppressed in the USSA.
IOW, confirmation from a woman with a ringside seat, that CBS was running a hard political filter against her reporting, because the Red Democrats were in office.
Wonder if she can retrieve her stories from the CBS Red Spike, rewrite them, and then deliver them in another, more fact-friendly forum? Like, say (if all else fails) the UK Telegraph or Daily Mail ..... or better still, The Times (of London)?
Cowriting a comprehensive story with Brent Bozell on the Media Filter/Journolist (presented as a modern Problem of Democracy)would be a great coup. The problem then would be to get it to the Low Information Voter's dinner table.
But as to countering the inevitable ad hominem attacks on whatever forum hires Atkisson, it would still be kinda hard for the Old Grey Whore to pee uphill on the London Times.
Yes, both are horrible rags.
Usually they can’t do anything for six months.She has probably had her fill of the dBm. Maybe she will wind up at FNC no telling.
How to welcome her with open arms? Sarah’s new network?
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