Sharyl Attkisson Resigns from CBS News (over percieved 'liberal bias')
Source: Politico.com
CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has reached an agreement to resign from CBS News ahead of contract, bringing an end to months of hard-fought negotiations, sources familiar with her departure told POLITICO on Monday.
Attkisson, who has been with CBS News for two decades, had grown frustrated with what she saw as the network's liberal bias, an outsized influence by the network's corporate partners and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting, several sources said. She increasingly felt like her work was no longer supported and that it was a struggle to get her packages on television.
At the same time, Attkisson's own 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" -- which addresses the challenges of reporting critically on the Obama administration.
Feeling increasingly stymied and marginalized at the network, Attkisson began talking to CBS News President David Rhodes as early as last April about getting out of her contract. Those negotiations intensified in recent weeks, and her request was finally honored on Monday.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/03/sharyl-attkisson-to-leave-cbs-news-184836.html
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)mullet?
daybranch
(1,309 posts)Not blonde or pretty enough. Sorry lady, this is not discrimination just business's right to discriminate. You jumped from frying pan into fire.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Where, as we know, there is no bias at all.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)calimary
(81,382 posts)Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)Just like Greta.
calimary
(81,382 posts)just like greta. greta had her eyes lifted when she got her new opportunity at Pox. And it looked odd. Just plain odd. I don't think it helped - but then again, she's got the bad luck to be in the same cast as the blonde bimbo clone squad - dear little meGYN and gretchen and the rest of the parade. After awhile, they all start looking alike.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)And for my other two guesses...FOX "News" & for the last one I will pick FOX "News".
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Shame on her for whining publicly like this. In my humble opinion.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)she just wanted to make a big show out of it -- And get a little public buzz for her new job at Fox or Newsmax or whatever...
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)This is just a step leading to her book tour and alternative press (e.g., fox/newsmax)/conservative talking circuit career.
This is the new career business model.
louis-t
(23,296 posts)'liberal bias' and 'outsized influence of corporate sponsors'? Where was her dedication to investigative reporting when bush was in office? I have never heard of Sharyl Attkinson. And, she is being let go because it was determined that she is no longer impartial.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Cognitive dissonance is their religion. She's probably selling her body to Murdoch. By any other name, a presstitute.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)are very frequently partially leaked documents from Issa.
She's an integrity-free rightwing hack.
louis-t
(23,296 posts)So, all this crap about 'liberal bias', etc. is bullshit cover story.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)jmowreader
(50,561 posts)Newsmax is starting their new cable-tv service, and they need newsbabes.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I listen to a CBS traffic/news channel in Los Angeles (AM 1070)...I get so damned mad at
the Obam-a bashing and Obam-a Care snarkage. I don't thing I've ever heard them say Affordable Care Act...everything is negative, on a daily basis, when they talk about the President.
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)One evening, I had it on for 5 minutes: they talked about ACA's failure before a break, after a break, and called ACA failure a "top of the hour news story."
AM980 is even worse.
LoisB
(7,214 posts)good for traffic updates.
alp227
(32,038 posts)I listen online from NorCal if i want to hear All Things Considered at 3:00. they do traffic in drivetime, not so sure about 89.3 KPCC.
Cha
(297,419 posts)on Liberals Enough!
ebbie15644
(1,215 posts)RussBLib
(9,027 posts)...guaranteed.
In one sense, it's a brilliant career move. She's making FOX want to hire her, and she can be in bed with like minds. In another sense, a total slut.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)1- Minds?
2-And like hairdos.(Or is it hairdi?)
DanTex
(20,709 posts)For trying to push Fast and Furious gunrunning conspiracies from loony right-wing blogs and giving the Darrell Issa witch hunt some cover from a legitimate news organization.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)on point
(2,506 posts)Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)http://gawker.com/sharyl-attkisson-resigns-from-cbs-for-future-in-conserv-1540685595
She will fit in nicely with the other loons at Fox.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I think she is confused....
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)is liberal bias, what the hell is M$NBC - pravda?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)That is all.
adavid
(140 posts)"we will hire you, just feign "liberal bias" on your way out..
FSogol
(45,504 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Javaman
(62,531 posts)Let me guess, she just got a new job over at that "fair and balanced" nitwit of a network.
thank you sharyl attkisson for the biggest laugh out loud moment of the day!
what a colossal twit.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)bwahaaahaaa
City Lights
(25,171 posts)She needs to have her head examined if she truly believes CBS has a "liberal bias."
aggiesal
(8,921 posts)anything to the left of her view is a liberal bias.
They're still RW views, but to her it's Liberal bias.
Stainless
(718 posts)Liberal Bias...............now that is laughable. I hope her media presence is over with.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Nitram
(22,843 posts)...lack of conservative bias.
ck4829
(35,078 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)Faux wannabe.
liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)then Bill O', then a few other right wing talk fests, then FOX - it's a given. I can visualize the Koch bro's calling up and saying, "Hire this girl, she's one of us"
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)this all sounds as if it was planned and instigated by Fox - they offered her a nice juicy sum IF she would leave by saying that CBS was "liberal."
Which doesn't negate that she might be a proper little SS officer herself. Just because she's female, doesn't mean she's a paragon of virtue. Look at Bachman and Palin.
3catwoman3
(24,023 posts)I'm about to go out to dinner and I don't want to lose my appetite.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)That woman is officially trippin.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)npk
(3,660 posts)Now, at least in her mind and the minds of conservative idiots, it looks like she won. She will no doubt become a hero of the right and conservative bloggers will act like she struck a blow against the "vast liberal media". What bullshit!
marshall
(6,665 posts)Under contract they had some control over. Now she will be out there flapping her yap for all to hear, no doubt trashing her former network.
npk
(3,660 posts)It's no doubt exactly what she wanted.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)If someone who looks like Sharyl Attkisson starts buying sleeveless dresses in great quantity...
big_dog
(4,144 posts)we called it first!!
Mass
(27,315 posts)deminks
(11,017 posts)CBS tried on that one. Too bad they all got caught! /sarcasm off.
Sharyl, No more crack for you!
go home!
-p
Paladin
(28,267 posts)Rider3
(919 posts)she'll fit in nicely there.
Cha
(297,419 posts)alp227
(32,038 posts)now hires this partisan pos? bye Sharyl.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)along with the hit pieces on Obama.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)"Conservative Political Action Conference"....was to liberal an 'award' for her?
Let's see who she goes to work for now to reveal the real agenda of this journalist
NRaleighLiberal
(60,016 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)marble falls
(57,136 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)Marthe48
(16,993 posts)And who do the news readers trot out during a 'news' event? Some idiot repug like Cheney or Ryan to naysay the Obama administration. I rarely see a Dem on any MSM, and if I do, they are getting shouted down by a lie machine. And like a page out of how to write a persuasive argument, they make sure the idiot repug is the last face you see, the last misdirection you hear....
anyway, good riddance to her. Others before her have tried to create a lucrative career by guessing which way the wind is going to blow.
valerief
(53,235 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)rdharma
(6,057 posts)But I'll bet that's where she's hoping to land.
daleo
(21,317 posts)I don't suppose she will see that as having a conservative bias, though.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)This might actually be a preemptive strike against CBS. She probably thought/knew CBS would point out that she had become less objective. Even though she would have most likely ended up at FOX News anyway she would have looked much worse if CBS could have come out and said she left the network she had become less objective. Now she can pretend that she left the network because it refused to do negative stories about President Obama.
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Has anybody really seen this women, Attkisson on the boob tube?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,331 posts)The poor guy hasn't worked a legitimate job since TVs had tubes. Now Fox is going to replace him with a slightly prettier version of his disgruntled former employee shtick.
dsc
(52,164 posts)her book is being published by NewsCorp.