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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Mainstream media.... and by that I INCLUDE FOX NEWS, so please don;t make this post to be something that it isn't... is not invested in telling their viewers/ listeners the truth, but in passing along a POV. Heck, if they were involved in telling the truth and focusing on important items, do you they they would run thousands of ads every day?

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BTW- I don't watch CBS much, but so far it seems to me that the broadcast company that most faithfully carries Obama's water is NPR and its public radio station affiliates.

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Heck, if they were involved in telling the truth and focusing on important items, do you they they would run thousands of ads every day?-signy

Actually, yes. ( As I understand what you meant ) Who else would pay for the studios, staff, equipment, power and salaries ? The content need not suffer just because it's a for profit organization. If anything, it should be better for it.-rappy

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Rappy, the advertising IS the content! That's where the stations make their money!

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As far as Bush's biggest blunder... the Iraq war... Judith Miller of the NYT carried HIS water relentlessly, "reporting" on connections between Saddam Hussein and 9-11 (which didn't exist), yellowcake deals (which didn't happen), WMD programs (that weren't even a figment of Saddam's imagination), and "terrorist training camps" that even the CIA doubted, referencing such sketchy backgrounders as "Curveball", a notoriously unreliable source. GWB got a huge pass after 9-11, the press didn't really turn on him until after Katrina.

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The liberal press, unfortunately, never challenged him on more substantive grounds, and let pass without comment Obama's appointment of a pro Wall Streeter (Geithner), his continued bank-bailout slush fund, the speech where Obama first spoke the words "indefinite preventive detention", and all of his other betrayals of his constituency.

So "the press" is faithful to the President, as long as the President is faithful to the banks, the military, the alphabet-soup security agencies, and the remainder of the rich and powerful.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

As far as Clinton is concerned, none of his major initiatives - NAFTA, DOMA, DMCA, the Kosovo war, welfare reform, repeal of Glass Steagall, the Commodities Futures Reform Act... all of which came back to bite us 6-12 years later.... were subject to the press scrutiny they deserved.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
W didn't do what Barry did. Not even close . That's what you fail to comprehend

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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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Originally posted by AURaptor:
W didn't do what Barry did. Not even close . That's what you fail to comprehend

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"Barry" didn't do what you claim he did, either. Not even close.



That's what you utterly fail to comprehend.


Hell, even Darrell Issa has admitted as much.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You're right. GWB just started two very useless and very expensive wars which managed to kill at least 100,000 people, renditioned detainees to Guantanamo and Bagram AFB and black sites all over the world where they were tortured, sometimes to death, began warrantless wiretapping at the AT&T server station in SF, and racked up a huge deficit including Medicare PartD. Obama just followed in his footsteps and added a new wrinkle with drones.

Wow, which is worse??? It's hard to say!

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You're right. GWB just started two very useless and very expensive wars which managed to kill at least 100,000 people, renditioned detainees to Guantanamo and Bagram AFB and black sites all over the world where they were tortured, sometimes to death, began warrantless wiretapping at the AT&T server station in SF, and racked up a huge deficit including Medicare PartD. Obama just followed in his footsteps and added a new wrinkle with drones.

Wow, which is worse??? It's hard to say!

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I wonder why Ms. Atkisson never felt the need to report on any of those stories, or to dig into them to uncover the *real* stories through that kind of hard investigative reporting she claims to be so enamored of.

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:



She wasn't "hacked" - she *IS* a hack.


Which of course is why conservatards love her.

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Originally posted by reaverfan:

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

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
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
ns-cbs-after-months-talks/#ixzz2vjxsIW9H

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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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Originally posted by AURaptor:




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.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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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. Part of it is due to the special hold that this historic president has over liberals. The growing bifurcation of American society in which the country has been divided between those who read the New York Times, listen to NPR and watch mainstream networks and MSNBC and those who read the Wall Street Journal, listen to talk radio and watch Fox News, has also affected journalists who should know better. The culture at CBS and like-minded outlets is to see any aggressive reporting about the president and his policies as evidence of wrong thinking rather than part of their obligation to ask uncomfortable questions and speak truth to power.

There was some hope last year that the spying on the AP and James Rosen would, especially when combined with other scandals involving the IRS and Benghazi, motivate the liberal media to start doing its job with regard to this administration. But the ouster of Attkisson combined with the relative lack of interest on the part of most of the press to follow up on those scandals while treating those involving Republicans — like Chris Christie’s Bridgegate — as the second coming of Watergate, means that partisanship has prevailed over integrity in much of the mainstream media.

One has to wonder why anyone interested in anything but White House talking points would choose to watch CBS News if a reporter like Attkisson couldn’t work there. This partly explains the decline of CBS and other liberal networks. But it also sends a clear message to the public that they can’t trust CBS and any other network where aggressive coverage of the administration is no longer welcome. This confirms what conservatives have been talking about for years but it ought to sadden anyone, no matter their politics, who understands the role of a free press in a democracy.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/03/10/the-medias-obama-protecti
on-society-liberal-bias-sharyl-attkisson/

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.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
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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When everyone around you is parroting the same tune, it's sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees.

That, and she never had to deal w/ such a corrupt and tyrannical President before.

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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!


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When everyone around you is parroting the same tune, it's sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees.

That, and she never had to deal w/ such a corrupt and tyrannical President before.

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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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When everyone around you is parroting the same tune, it's sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees.

That, and she never had to deal w/ such a corrupt and tyrannical President before.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
That's it!!! You cracked the case!

Everyone: "IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT"

Quel Suprise!


SGG

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I'm not 'wrong', it's that you just don't agree , about something.

You doubt that there's obstruction and bias in the media ? Or that this WH is dedicated to attack those who don't fall in line ? I don't. I think she's 100% dead on accurate.

If she's got a story to tell about the " most transparent admin ever ", and the dirty tricks it pulls, so be it. If she can make $ off of the telling of that story, more power to her. Hell, the Left has made boat loads of $ off telling lies, so I don't begrudge this one reporter making $ off telling the truth.

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.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Yeah, eight months ago I said "good for her". Now I say fuck her. She's a Jenny Come Lately opportunist trying to cash in on her own stupidity. Veteran CBS journalist Bernie Goldberg laid it all out five years ago with his tell-all book about liberal media bias "A Slobbering Love Affair". Somehow Attkisson didn't get or didn't care about the fraudulent news environment enough then to quit being a part of it.

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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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When everyone around you is parroting the same tune, it's sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees.

That, and she never had to deal w/ such a corrupt and tyrannical President before.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

It was announced today that she will be a guest interview on a radio show, the Jerry Bader Show, which runs 8:30-11 am, not sure which segment she will be in. I think it is also available online.

radio is 97.5FM or 1360AM, Mid West Communications. WTAQ News Talk Sports, Green Bay. That is central time, even though in the Eastern time Meridian.

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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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When everyone around you is parroting the same tune, it's sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees.

That, and she never had to deal w/ such a corrupt and tyrannical President before.

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One hallmark of an intrenched libtard is that, when presented with all the things that she sees, all of her fellow libtards still refuse to see it, they insist on keeping their blinders in place.
And yes, she is a liberal. Read her book.

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