Did Obama Just Force Out The Last Honest Reporter In Washington?
She found out what happens when you don't toe the Party line...
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.”
Attkisson
was doing what journalists are supposed to do, and she did it with Democrat and
Republican administrations. She attempted to hold them both accountable, and
served as a watchdog on the overreaches of government. For that, she has been
banished from the mainstream media. “During the Bush administration, Attkisson
won an Emmy for her reporting on shady Republican fundraising,” notes Katie
Pavlich for Townhall.com.
Attkisson also did exposés on TARP, Fast & Furious, Solyndra, and Benghazi,
among other topics.
It is
clear that much of the criticism of Attkisson’s anti-government—not anti-Obama—reporting
comes from the White House, and White House-favoring media acolytes. “White
House spokespeople declined to discuss their attitude toward Attkisson’s
reporting on the record, though they are said to view her recent work as being
more in line with that of Fox News than CBS,” reported POLITICO back in 2013.
And you know what happens with Fox News or any uncooperative media with this
administration? They are generally shut out.
Or,
alternatively, the administration may choose to scream
and cuss at the reporter because it doesn’t like her reporting on Fast
& Furious. “The White House and Justice Department] will tell you that I’m
the only reporter—as they told me—that is not reasonable,” said Attkisson back
in 2011, describing how she was cussed out by the White House. “They say The
Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times
is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m
unfair and biased by pursuing it.”
In 2013,
CBS confirmed that
Attkisson’s computer had been compromised by “an unauthorized, external,
unknown party on multiple occasions” in late 2012.
In 2012,
Accuracy in Media gave Attkisson the Reed
Irvine Award for Investigative Journalism to honor her “outstanding
contributions to journalism.” She was unable to attend the ceremony, but CBS’
Washington Bureau Chief Chris Isham indicated in her stead that Attkisson had
donated the proceeds to Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose “murder was
connected to the Fast & Furious Operation.” “CBS News is very proud of
Sharyl’s groundbreaking reporting…It represents the best at CBS News, the kind
of original reporting that we are extremely proud of that we are fully
committed to and will remain committed to,” he
said in February 2012.
Attkisson’s
departure from CBS is said to be on “amicable” terms.
But what
this journalist apparently failed to adhere to was the double standard, and how
it applies to Democrats such as the current resident of the White House. All
scandals are to be labeled “phony scandals,” and nothing is the fault of the
President himself—except maybe sometimes he doesn’t communicate his ideas as
well as he means to. Thus, we are supposed to accept that there isn’t a “smidgeon
of corruption” at the IRS, despite evidence to the contrary, and that the
Benghazi victims are just “bumps in the
road,” not a sign of gross dereliction of duty by this President.
Attkisson
refused to play by those rules. Sadly, it’s hard to find another journalist at
any of the three broadcast networks who does the same.
She has
done some good reporting on Benghazi as well, but she wasn’t able to do all she
wanted to. CBS delayed her Benghazi stories and ignored scoops.
We wonder
if the fact that the president of CBS News, David Rhodes, is the brother of Ben
Rhodes—who was Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor, and involved with
altering the Benghazi talking points—played any role in Attkisson’s fate.
Attkisson
is currently working on a book, tentatively titled Stonewalled: One
Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington, while staying
active on social media.
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