Veteran reporter resigns from CBS over liberal bias.

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AURAPTOR

Monday, November 3, 2014 5:40 PM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:

She's a Koch whore. It's that simple.

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SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 3:19 AM

2 things come to mind:

Investigative reporting; to some extent I believe her, but hasn't she heard of 60 Minutes. Of course, liberal bias is it's middle name, we're talking about a program that was born out of the 60s.

Are you kidding me with the "corporate influence" - all news programs are corporations and are summarily influenced by. So please, spare me the histrionics.

$10 bucks she joins Fox News. Now there's a shining beacon of journalistic integrity - Fair and Balanced.


SGG

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CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has announced her resignation after being employed by the network for more than two decades.
“I have resigned from CBS,” she stated simply to her 41,000 Twitter followers on Monday.

Miss Attkisson had grown frustrated at CBS with what she saw as liberal bias, as well as “an outsized influence by the network’s corporate partners and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting,” several sources told Politico.
Miss Attkisson began negotiating with CBS News President David Rhodes as early as last April about getting out of her contract.

She described her resignation as “amicable,” Politico reported


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/10/sharyl-attkisson-resig
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SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 3:23 AM

Say, tell me J-straw, does that mandate include everybody, or just the females give Obama a blow job.

How about over at Fox News, do they bend over and grab their ankles for Uncle Rupert?
Curious minds want to know.


SGG

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Good for her. CBS is actually the least biased to the Left of the major networks. ABC is mostly a liberal cesspool, while NBC mandates that its on-air propagandists fellate Obama every day.

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SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 3:28 AM

Funny, she can't take it anymore, but she gladly took their money for 20 years while she figured it out.

Just makes ya think, don't it!


SGG

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Nailed it.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

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SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 3:39 AM

Curious how it is never mentioned that Attkisson signed a contract, probably several, knowing that CBS News was not presenting her stories, regardless of the take of her approach.

My feeling is that she could have taken her skills elsewhere in a free market, somewhere that would appreciate her conservative views. Seriously, if she was so unhappy about airtime at CBS, take your skills to another news outlet. With her background I would imagine that would not be difficult. Better still join a political campaign.


SGG

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
The news that CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson is leaving the network does not come as any great surprise to those who have followed her career. Last year, at a time when we learned that the Obama Justice Department was spying on Fox News’ James Rosen as well as a group of reporters at the Associated Press, Attkisson reported that her computer had been hacked. But, as Dylan Byers wrote in Politico, Attkisson had an even bigger problem: most of her colleagues at CBS didn’t like the fact that she had spent the last few years reporting aggressively about the Obama administration’s various shortcomings and scandals.

Journalists at mainstream media outlets like to pretend that they play it down the middle when it comes to whoever is in power. But it was hardly a coincidence that the prevailing office culture at the network that the president trusted, in Steve Kroft’s memorable phrase, not to make him “look stupid,” would think ill of a reporter that thought it worth her time to investigate stories like Fast and Furious, Solyndra and Benghazi. If, as Byers reports today, Attkisson has come to a parting of the ways with CBS after “hard fought negotiations” that led to her departure prior to the expiration of her contract, it was due to the following factors:

Attkisson, who has been with CBS News for two decades, had grown frustrated with what she saw as the network’s liberal bias, an outsize influence by the network’s corporate partners and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting, several sources said. She increasingly felt that her work was no longer supported and that it was a struggle to get her reporting on air.

At the same time, Attkisson’s reporting on the Obama administration, which some staffers characterized as agenda-driven, had led network executives to doubt the impartiality of her reporting. She is currently at work on a book — tentatively titled “Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington” — that addresses the challenges of reporting critically on the administration.

While Attkisson is just one reporter and CBS has long since ceased being a dominant force in the national media, this may be a crucial moment in the history of American journalism. It was assumed that any major news outlet would regard aggressive coverage of all administrations as a given. But that ceased to be the case when Barack Obama entered the White House. If Attkisson is being shown the door at CBS it is not because her work is not highly regarded but because she has violated the prime directive of liberal media insiders: thou shalt not report on Obama in the same way that you reported on George W. Bush or even Bill Clinton. The liberal bias that conservatives have long complained about is out of the closet.

While most journalists have been reliably liberal in their politics for decades, the culture of the profession has always valued an “agin’ the government” mentality in which all politicians are viewed with cynicism. So long as even liberal journalists regard it as their duty to ferret out stories about corruption, mismanagement and failure within the government, we can feel safe that no administration, even one that is favored by the left, will escape the scrutiny necessary to provide accountability.

But there is little doubt that this has begun to change since Obama came to office. After the media hammered both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush throughout their presidencies, Obama has had it relatively easy. Par

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