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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:54 AM

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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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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:43 AM

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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Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:13 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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?

Just watch the media knowing that it's not there to tell you anything important, but to get you to react the way that want you to react. Like listening to somebody that has a POV and is trying to convince you, and they get to yack at your for hours every day. If you know the backers of that particular outlet, then you'll be able to figure out their intent by watching how the news changes.

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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Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:26 PM

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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?




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.

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Just watch the media knowing that it's not there to tell you anything important, but to get you to react the way that want you to react. Like listening to somenody that has a POV and is trying to convince you, and they et to yack at your for hours every day. If you know the backers of that particular outlet, then you'll be able to figure out their intent by watching how the news changes.



I'm not sure you're getting it. But then as NBC is owned by G.E. , which is fully in the tank for advancing the AGW agenda, that might make some sense.

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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.




With out even listening to NPR, I could have guessed that they'd be most in the tank for our Collectivist OF Chief.

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Friday, March 14, 2014 9:38 AM

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Nailed it.

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Friday, March 14, 2014 12:05 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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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

Rappy, the advertising IS the content! That's where the stations make their money! The shows are just the pretty candy-wrapper which draws eyeballs to the advertising!

I could point out a least a half-dozen ways that the shows themselves (the part you mistakenly call "content") are fundamentally negatively affected by the commercial nature of broadcast media. But I encourage you and everyone to think how this could be, and if you have any thoughts on the topic, please feel free to bring them to the table!





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Friday, March 14, 2014 1:00 PM

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As I said... NBC programming , its 'Green Week ' nonsense , is a direct product push for GE and its subsidiaries. Glad we agree on something.


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Friday, March 14, 2014 8:03 PM

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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
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Saturday, March 15, 2014 12:20 PM

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



Just out of curiosity, where would you suggest they get their money?


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Saturday, March 15, 2014 12:59 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


The media has been relentlessly kind to Presidents in general, including GWB.

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.

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.

Obama... some of the press went off on ridiculous criticism about him being a Kenyan, a non-American, a Muslim, and radical, none of which was true. 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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Saturday, March 15, 2014 1:36 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM

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.



I think you're wiping away a fair amount of truth with some bogus intel that doesn't fit your own agenda. As far as 'turning' on W, they were all on board w/ that well before Katrina. Remember Abu Ghraib ? NY papers ran headlines on that story daily, for like 2 months. Where as things like Fast and Furious or Benghazi got no where near the wide spread attention.

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Obama... some of the press went off on ridiculous criticism about him being a Kenyan, a non-American, a Muslim, and radical, none of which was true.



The only reason they did that was to mock Donald Trump and cast ALL TEA Party minded Americans as 'birthers'. Utter rubbish.

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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.




Obama tried to get FOX news tossed off the WH Press pool. He hacked reporter's computers, and Jay Carney openly mocks the media during press conferences... and yet the Press are dutiful compliant to the whims of THIS WH.

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 2:41 PM

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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.


And don't forget CALEA, which is what lead to all those goddamn implanted backdoors which make American software insecure and near useless.

That's what really pissed me off, they went after him over a humjob from some bimbo and wound up handing him a pass on all this other shit as a result, the incompetent cretins...

Honestly, I could care less who the Prez is fucking so long as it ain't the american public.

-F

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 2:45 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Oh, and speaking of carrying Bush-water, seems everyone else has conveniently forgotten about Jeff Gannon and Talon News Service, not surprising given how deliberately that was kicked down the memory hole.

Gonna whine about revoking his press 'credentials' too, Rappy ?

-F

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 3:04 PM

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Kids play compared to using the IRS to harass American citizens who differ from THE ONE on the matter of politics.

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 5:24 PM

FREMDFIRMA



What you fail to understand, Rappy, and will continue to fail to understand...

Is that some things are wrong NO MATTER WHO DOES THEM.

And so long as you gleefully support even the very worst of evils so long as it's your "side" which is comitting them, then you're nothing more than a turd on the sidewalk to me, a reeking annoyance unworthy of consideration.

-Frem

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 6:58 PM

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W didn't do what Barry did. Not even close . That's what you fail to comprehend

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 8:17 PM

ELVISCHRIST




Funny. They're so "liberal" they completely fabricated stories about Benghazi to try to drum up viewership for that bastion of yellow journalism, 60 Minutes.


Has she announced her hiring at Fox yet?

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 8:18 PM

ELVISCHRIST


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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




"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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Saturday, March 15, 2014 8:20 PM

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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.




You seem to be obsessed with fellating black guys. Wife out of town again? Daughter won't give ya any? We know how "yawl" southerners are!

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Saturday, March 15, 2014 8:31 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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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Saturday, March 15, 2014 9:00 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"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."

liberal bias
outsized influence by the network’s corporate partners
lack of dedication to investigative reporting

Pretty bland description of what she was claiming. She claims her work AND PERSONAL (at home) computers were hacked. “There were just signs of unusual happenings for many months, odd behavior like the computers just turning themselves on at night and then turning themselves back off again,” she said. ... “I think I know. But I’m just not prepared to go into that. We’re continuing our investigations. There are multifaceted looks at what to do next… Let me just say, whoever did it, to come into a private citizen’s home, whether I’m a journalist or not, and look in my family’s computer and look into my work computer… Well, it’s outrageous.”

Do I think the government is beyond that? Not in the least. Do I think they'd be so clumsy as to have the computers turn themselves on and off in the middle of the night for anyone to notice? No, not really.

Looking at her stories, I find most of her stories during the Bush years to NOT be directed at the president, during an administration that was prime territory for investigative reporting. Her 'zeal' to uncover the 'truth' didn't extend in that direction at the time. No, her anti-administration campaign began during the Obama administration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#2010s

2000s
2001 - Firestone Tire Fiasco
2002 - American Red Cross
2009 - TARP and the bank bailout

2010s
2010 - waste of tax dollars
2011 - investigations into Congressional travel to the Copenhagen climate summit, and aid to Haiti earthquake victims
2012 - ATF's Fast and Furious

So, her political outrage looks distinctly partisan.


I think Attkison's grudge match against the Obama administration was uncomfortable for the corporation. (Just as it would have been if she focused her ire on Bush earlier. But she didn't.) Meanwhile, the corporation, being a corporation, didn't want anything to get in the way of profits smoothly rolling in.

Unbiased truth teller? She's hardly that. CBS downplaying her because it's a 'liberal' organization? Not that either.




OONJERAH
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Saturday, March 15, 2014 10:53 PM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
Quote:

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




"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.



Yeah he did, and I really don't give two flips what you think Issa said.

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Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:37 AM

ELVISCHRIST


Quote:

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!




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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Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:43 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
Quote:

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!




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.

It's amazing, isn't it? ALL mainstream media was fellating Bush throughout the war. The reporting was mostly about how awesome our weapons were. It was as if they had a vested interest in lying right along with Bush, and being a megaphone for our war-for-profit industries.

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Sunday, November 2, 2014 3:14 PM

ELVISCHRIST





She also claims her computers were "hacked" - and she posted a video of it happening!


http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/busted-sharyl-attkissons-hacked-vide
o



Too bad the video was shot nearly a year after the alleged "hack" she claims happened.


I wonder if she really resigned, or if CBS parted ways with her because this is the level of investigative journalism she engaged in while employed there.

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Sunday, November 2, 2014 10:53 PM

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Title should have said " ultra extreme far Left wing Liberal bias " , to reflect clarity and accuracy in meaning.


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Sunday, November 2, 2014 11:18 PM

ELVISCHRIST





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


Which of course is why conservatards love her.

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Monday, November 3, 2014 5:45 AM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

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


Which of course is why conservatards love her.



cites ?

And she's not the only one this administration has tried to bully.

CNN Anchor: Obama Administration Threatens Reporter’s Jobs

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/cnn-anchor-obama-administration-threa
tens-reporters-jobs
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NY Times Reporter Facing Jail Sentence Warns of Obama’s Tyranny (and We Should Listen) - http://www.tpnn.com/2014/08/18/ny-times-reporter-facing-jail-sentence-
warns-of-obamas-tyranny-and-we-should-listen
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Monday, November 3, 2014 6:34 AM

REAVERFAN


All these breathless claims. She's a Koch whore. It's that simple.

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Monday, November 3, 2014 7:17 AM

THGRRI


Teachers, Professors, writers, the press, Hmmmm. I wonder why it is educated people tend to lean left? Do you think perhaps they know something morons do not?


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Monday, November 3, 2014 7:40 AM

AURAPTOR

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Originally posted by reaverfan:

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



#RealWarOnWomen



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Monday, November 3, 2014 5:19 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


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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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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Monday, November 3, 2014 5:23 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


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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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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Monday, November 3, 2014 5:28 PM

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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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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Monday, November 3, 2014 5:39 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


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. 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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Tuesday, November 4, 2014 12:34 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


Something has happened to investigative reporting over the years. It just doesn't seemt to happen so much any more. Watching old news footage, I can see that reporters were more fearless and would actually investigate. Not so much any more. Newspapers are just click bait, the more outrageous the story the more likely to be clicked on and revenue collected. Increasingly what counts as news is just a cross between infotainment and advertisement. It's either total froth, sports or, what looks like to me especially in the US, polemic commentators who aim to shock.

It's rubbish mostly. I dont watch televised news and rarely do anything more than scan the headlines in the online papers. I havent observed that people who follow either newspapers of televised news are more informed. Mostly they are as dumb as ducks.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014 8:10 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

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



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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Tuesday, November 4, 2014 8:57 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
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.

So wrong you are! It took Attkisson 12 years to write her book, then it was time to resign and promote it on FOX. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/11/04/on-fox-news-sha
ryl-attkisson-cites-new-information-on-computer-intrusions
/

That is the real reason Sharyl Attkisson resigned. www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062322842

A great deal of Attkisson's “Stonewalled” is given over to denunciations of PR agents and their tricks. Yet if milking a story for maximum duration is a PR skill — then the author has something in common with those she deplores.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014 2:23 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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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Wednesday, November 5, 2014 3:53 PM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

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



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.

LOL!

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Friday, November 7, 2014 2:52 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


That's it!!! You cracked the case!

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

Quel Suprise!


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

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



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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Friday, November 7, 2014 7:09 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

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

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

Quel Suprise!


SGG





At least she's awake, and has a conscience, unlike most of her press siblings.

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Sunday, November 9, 2014 8:52 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Ah, the Truth................how very important.

Recently saw an interview with her regarding her book. I got the feeling she was being deliberately coy about her "story" and the "facts" of the case. They showed a camera phone video tape (no doubt filmed by her) of her laptop being "controlled" by an outside source. She claimed it was a 3-initialed government agency that hacked into her computer and she cited an established source, but claimed she could not name under mysterious circumstances, that had scanned her device and uncovered the hack.

WTF!?

I'm not making this up. This was in her own words.

Part One:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-interviews-sharyl-attkis
son-355291203735


Part Two:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-cynics-case-against-sharyl-attki
sson-355289667971


It's obvious she wants to sell books, because she makes that statement several times. But even if it were given away free, I wouldn't bother reading it. Why didn't CBS, one of the top-notch News Organizations within the Main Stream Media, pursue this potentially blockbuster story? Even if they didn't get to the bottom of it, they would get so much publicity and recognition (that translates into ratings) in the corporate world of news media. From that aspect, it just doesn't make sense.

She knows full well, being a news reporter herself, that any news story with this type of explosiveness, needs to be corroborated, investigated and exposed. How many more books could she sell if this story had "legs" and confirmed. Every word out of her mouth is a dead end to "we'll see." And, like Chris Hayes said, it is a story that people are willing to believe. I just don't buy it.


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
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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Sunday, November 9, 2014 3:48 PM

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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Monday, November 10, 2014 4:03 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Exactly. Even putting aside the "stories" she was working on, my whole thing about her is why she held onto CBS News, when there are other news outlets out there. She claims they wouldn't put her investigations on air. Additionally she claimed bias - Well Duh! That is part and parcel of the news game whether print or broadcast.

During the interview she did attempt to use news manipulation, or double-speak, to try and evade the question, which Hayes chose to slide by (like a batter would a pitched ball he didn't offer a swing at). I got the feeling he said, let her double-talk speak for itself.

She's a poser, and obviously didn't do her homework within the investigative reporting realm, or else she would have made a name for herself. Perhaps her dream was to be the next Diane Sawyer or Katie Couric (heaven help us).


SGG


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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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Monday, November 10, 2014 5:52 PM

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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Monday, November 10, 2014 7:07 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

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



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.


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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Monday, November 10, 2014 11:18 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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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.


Wow! Hope she doesn't cancel at the last minute because she needs a boil lanced or something.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:50 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


No thank you, I've seen enough. Besides were she good at her job CBS, or someone, would have signed her on.

I guess there are no openings at Fox - Pity, she's obviously talented.


SGG


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Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

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



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.


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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