Sharyl Attkisson Blames CBS News Anchor Scott Pelley For Killing Her Stories
Source: TPM
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson elaborated during an interview that aired Monday on claims that CBS News suppressed her stories that were critical of President Obama, extending the blame to one of the biggest names at the network.
Attkisson has made a ton of noise since she left CBS earlier this year, repeatedly suggesting that her stories on the 2012 attack in Benghazi and the failed gun-running operation known as "Fast & Furious" were stymied by the network for political reasons.
If her interview Monday with NPR's David Folkenflik was any indication, Attkisson has no intention to pull back from the claims that have made her a rare journalistic hero among conservatives.
Attkisson blamed CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley and "two veteran producers" for keeping her stories off the air. Pelley took over as evening news anchor in 2011.
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Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)Spouting Horn
(338 posts)they deserved to be "killed?"
Who wants to hear about your non-stories, Sharyl?
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Perhaps if she'd tried to introduce stories that weren't Koch Bros. approved talking points, then she may have gotten some of her stories aired.
the political reason of lying. News isn't storytelling unless you're on Fox.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But first make the rounds on right wing talk shows...then sign the big contract at Fox...she will have celebrity status by then.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)you complained CBS was biased liberally ... ? And that Pelley is the one who squelched your stories? Utter nonsense.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)?
catbyte
(34,373 posts)she will fit right in.
Blue Idaho
(5,048 posts)of the tinfoil hat brigade. It's time news organizations stop inviting lunatics, science deniers, and conspiracy theorists to pollute the public airwaves with their hate speech and half baked insanity.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Witnessing President Obama's birth in Kenya?
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)unauthenticated documents which cost anchor Dan Rather his job/reputation and helped cost John Kerry his presidency:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x856282
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1891719
If her Benghazi and F&F stories were based on Obama being responsible, I certainly cannot blame CBS for not being interested.
rocktivity
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)If CBS is pro Democratic, I do not see it. McCain and Graham are on practically EVERY Sunday, demeaning the President. Faux would be a much better fit for anyone who wants to insult the President on a regular basis, DAILY.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)hit piece?
quadrature
(2,049 posts)blm
(113,043 posts)the DoJ finally caught up with the operation in 2010.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)going over the border,
but kept sending guns
blm
(113,043 posts)Try selling it to someone who trusts Moonie News as much as you do.