Sipsey Street Irregulars: Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News

Monday, March 10, 2014

Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News

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 reporting on air.

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Anonymous said...: The first big move to the Blaze is in motion.
As Fox rose as an alternative to the horrible media in this country so too now will the Blaze rise - in spite of Fox.
And that's because the truth always finds a way to work its way out.

Good luck to her as she blazes the trail.; March 10, 2014 at 2:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Fox is a shill for Establishment Republicans

The Blaze is run by Glenn Beck, who claims to be libertarian but supports the "War on terror."

Alex Jones is a pro-Russia propagandist.

Joining any media organization is a deal with the devil. I hope she finds a way to go independent.; March 10, 2014 at 5:28 PM
Anonymous said...: Fox has more money. And Ailes isn't stupid enough not to make her an offer. I remember when she was one of the reporters on our local CBS affiliate. I think she was about 23 years old and hot as hot could be. Felt bad when she left as she was the only hot info babe on that channel. She has done well. Smart and gutsy.; March 10, 2014 at 8:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Maybe she'll be offered a job with Greenwald at the newest media organization on the net..the Intercept..

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/

Home of the latest Snowden revelations and other high profile issues. She would do well there..except there is no video coverage..yet.; March 11, 2014 at 7:36 AM
Anonymous said...: I will be sad to see her go, as it seemed she was the last honest voice in commercial media.

I will definitely be buying her book. I expect it will be a worthwhile read.; March 11, 2014 at 6:46 PM
Anonymous said...: I fully support the war against terrorists.
That being defined as those who intentionally target innocent citizens with intent to impose political will opposite declared constitution.

Please note - terrorists exist from within the House of Saud, to Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Seems to me some are so busy trying to be contrarian that they have forgotten their base principals.; March 12, 2014 at 12:07 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News

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