Attkisson's CBS Departure Shows Big Media's Bias

Attkisson's CBS Departure Shows Big Media's Bias

 
Media Bias: How does CBS News thank its star reporter on the current presidency? By questioning her ideology and integrity and forcing her to leave. That's rich, coming from the RatherGate network.
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Renowned investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson was the beam in the CBS Eye. Now, her persecutors running CBS News are no doubt euphoric she finally is leaving.

It's a textbook case of the major media's liberal slant to devalue a versatile winner of five Emmys on everything from bank bailouts to Republican congressional fundraising to mismanagement at the Red Cross, apparently because she's too tough on the biggest power grabber in the history of the U.S. presidency.

Life can imitate art. In the satirical comedy "Network," Ned Beatty's corporate CEO complains to the TV news anchorman played by Peter Finch that "you get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon."

Politico reports Attkisson had grown frustrated not just with CBS' bias, but also with "an outsize influence by the network's corporate partners and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting, several sources said."

Dan Rather didn't worry about CBS' "corporate partners" when, just before the 2004 presidential election, he used forged documents to call into question President George W. Bush's Air National Guard service.

Attkisson is nearly alone within the broadcast media in pursuing Obama scandals, like the Benghazi attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans; the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal that left U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry dead; and the Solyndra scandal that wasted over a half-billion dollars of taxpayer money on a failed solar-panel maker. Last year, her computer was mysteriously hacked.

Whether it's network corporate sponsors who don't want to anger President Obama, or news editors who love Obama's agenda, we're all in trouble if investigative reporting focusing on the president is persecuted into marginality.