Veteran Reporter Says CBS Routinely ‘Buried’ Anti-Obama Stories
Ex-CBS Investigative Journalist Sharyl Attkisson claims in her new book that CBS executives routinely buried any and all stories they viewed as “anti-Obama” while she was employed there. Attkisson worked for the network for 20 years before quitting in frustration earlier this year.
Attkisson’s book, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington, wasn’t viewed as worthy of a comment by CBS, according to the New York Post.
In the book, Attkisson says that CBS higher-ups buried her reporting on the deadly attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, as well as reports on the federal “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal, and what she labels as the Obamacare debacle.
Attkisson says in her book that when conservative analysts appeared on the network, they were labeled as “conservative” by her superiors, but liberal analysts were just called “analysts.”
“And if a conservative analyst’s opinion really rubbed the supervisor the wrong way, she might rewrite the script to label him a ‘right-wing’ analyst.”
One of Attkisson’s main targets in her book is Scott Pelley, who is the anchor for CBS’s Evening News. The reporter claims that under Pelley’s leadership, any of her stories that were found to shine a negative light on the president were quashed.
Another of her opponents was Evening News’ former executive producer, Patricia Shelvin. Attkisson’s book claims that after she complained that CBS shelved several of her reports on Solyndra, (the President Obama-supported green energy firm that filed bankruptcy despite hundreds of millions of dollars in government assistance), Shevlin replied, “”What’s the matter, don’t you support green energy?”
Though Attkisson won’t be giving any interviews concerning her new tell-all book until next week, the reporter has been fast and furious with her Tweets – including what she perceives as a major problem the United States has with vaccinations.
One of the most instructive things at the time, for me, was when govt researchers told me that even though all the studies showed flu shots
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 27, 2014
didn’t work in the elderly, they figured the STUDIES were wrong because they “knew” flu shots worked! Kind of reminds me of today’s CDC
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 27, 2014
that looks at all the scientific links between vaccines and autism but “knows” it can’t be so, so it changes the study data or finds other — Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 27, 2014
explanations for why the data says what it says.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 27, 2014
Attkisson also says in her book, according to Business2Community, that a source confirmed that the government hacked her computer to spy on her. According to Attkisson, the source said that the hacker was a “sophisticated entity that used a commercial, non-attributable spyware that’s propriety to a government agency: either the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, or the National Security Agency.”
Sharyl Attkisson’s new book will be available on November 4th.
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