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Flashback: Ex-CBS reporter’s book reveals how liberal media protects Obama
Posted on 2/8/17 at 8:07 am
Posted on 2/8/17 at 8:07 am
Just for comparisons sake lets revisit this piece on how the media protected Obama but witch hunts Trump.
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I like her investigative style. She follows the money and doesnt let her politics influence her work.
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When the longtime CBS reporter asked for details about reinforcements sent to the Benghazi compound during the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack, White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor replied, “I give up, Sharyl . . . I’ll work with more reasonable folks that follow up, I guess.”
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Another White House flack, Eric Schultz, didn’t like being pressed for answers about the Fast and Furious scandal in which American agents directed guns into the arms of Mexican drug lords. “Goddammit, Sharyl!” he screamed at her. “The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times is reasonable. You’re the only one who’s not reasonable!”
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In nearly 20 years at CBS News, she has done many stories attacking Republicans and corporate America, and she points out that TV news, being reluctant to offend its advertisers, has become more and more skittish about, for instance, stories questioning pharmaceutical companies or car manufacturers. Working on a piece that raised questions about the American Red Cross disaster response, she says a boss told her, “We must do nothing to upset our corporate partners . . . until the stock splits.” (Parent company Viacom and CBS split in 2006).
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Reporters on the ground aren’t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the same papers and think the same thoughts. Often they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into “casting agents,” told “we need to find someone who will say . . .” that a given policy is good or bad. “We’re asked to create a reality that fits their New York image of what they believe,” she writes.
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When the White House didn’t like her reporting, it would make clear where the real power lay. A flack would send a blistering e-mail to her boss, David Rhodes, CBS News’ president — and Rhodes’s brother Ben, a top national security advisor to President Obama.
I like her investigative style. She follows the money and doesnt let her politics influence her work.
Posted on 2/8/17 at 8:15 am to Placebeaux
It's no secret that the media's objectives are more in line with Democrats. It's all about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
A lot of people have expressed a need for Trump to stand up to the biased media. However, my opinion is that the Trump admin has been too dickish and too sloppy in their attacks.
There was a real opportunity to change the way the media operates, but I don't think Trump's strategy is going to get it done.
He comes off as a 6th grade bully rather than a real reformer.
A lot of people have expressed a need for Trump to stand up to the biased media. However, my opinion is that the Trump admin has been too dickish and too sloppy in their attacks.
There was a real opportunity to change the way the media operates, but I don't think Trump's strategy is going to get it done.
He comes off as a 6th grade bully rather than a real reformer.
This post was edited on 2/8/17 at 8:17 am
Posted on 2/8/17 at 8:19 am to cahoots
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Trump admin has been too dickish and too sloppy in their attacks.
Trump is merely fighting fire with fire. Its war dont kid yourself. They won in Europe and turned the population into brainwashed idiots and they are trying to do the same here.
Posted on 2/8/17 at 9:44 am to cahoots
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However, my opinion is that the Trump admin has been too dickish and too sloppy in their attacks.
Don't bring piss to a shite fight!
Posted on 2/8/17 at 10:09 am to gizmoflak
CNN is always coming to a battle of wits unarmed.
Posted on 2/8/17 at 11:02 am to Placebeaux
Sharyl Attkisson has gone on many shows, both radio and TV, promoting her book and talking about how the MSM is so corrupt ... but she's been drowned-out by the very people she names in her books and in her interviews.
Fox News offered her a show, an outlet, in which they were going to give her full autonomy of her content and pretty much let her loose on anyone who would watch ... but she turned them down for mysterious reasons.
I think she is probably one of the few remaining true journalists with any integrity, but unfortunately with things the way they are, so partisan and all, very few are looking for someone who calls it straight down the middle.
Fox News offered her a show, an outlet, in which they were going to give her full autonomy of her content and pretty much let her loose on anyone who would watch ... but she turned them down for mysterious reasons.
I think she is probably one of the few remaining true journalists with any integrity, but unfortunately with things the way they are, so partisan and all, very few are looking for someone who calls it straight down the middle.
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