Several days ago a story broke
that Emmy Award winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson had resigned as a decades-long
employee from CBS.
Attkisson is best known for her
investigation of the gun-running scandal known as "Fast and Furious" that
allowed firearms to reach a myriad of Mexican drug cartels. One of those guns was used in the murder of
U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry. Her work
on the story garnered an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2012.
A media analyst suggests that the
CBS News investigative reporter resigned because her bosses were annoyed with
her efforts to uncover several scandals within the Obama Administration
including the Benghazi debacle and Solyndra.
It was Attkisson who roundly
refuted Hillary Clinton’s claim that "I remember landing under sniper
fire" on a visit to Bosnia.
Attkisson was covering the First Lady on that trip and her memories
are: "To be sure, it was not the
'safest' trip for a first lady to take: there were serious risks in traveling
to Bosnia, even for the president's wife under the vigilant protection of the
U.S. military. It took some guts for her to go. But I don't recall, and did not
note, any close calls on this trip with sniper fire or any other dangers.
"
Many journalists now are no more
than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'.
Bogus characterizations of her work
contend that her reporting had become agenda-driven. CBS executives “doubt the impartiality” of
her reporting.
If by “doubt the impartiality” of
her work CBS is inferring that Attkisson refrains from exaggerations of news
events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism then, yes, Attkisson is guilty as
charged.
If by “agenda-driven” the Left is
implying that she is fighting for truth in Washington when they exude extreme
cowardice then, yes, they pegged her correctly.
Carrying the water for this
Administration smacks of yellow journalism.
The Liberal stenographers and White House poodles have abdicated their
role as the Fourth Estate and have morphed into a Fifth Column overtly
supporting a Progressive movement.
I strongly suspect that Ms.
Attkisson’s departure from CBS may well become a precursor to the wheels coming
off The Ministry of Propaganda.
They say the truth shall set you
free. Ms. Attkisson is surely free
now. Good for her. I wish her well.
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