The NY Post on Sharyl Attkisson’s New Book
[guest post by JVW]
The New York Post today provides some interesting tidbits from the forthcoming book by Sharyl Attkisson, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington which is set to be published on November 4. Faithful readers of Patterico’s Pontifications will recognize Ms. Attkisson as the brave reporter who has done more than anyone in Big Media to hold the Obama Administration accountable, only to see her efforts thwarted by her bosses at CBS News.
There are plenty items of interest in the Post’s reporting. One of the things that comes through loud and clear is the degree to which the Obama Administration expects meek cooperation from Big Media:
Another White House flack, Eric Schultz, didn’t like being pressed for answers about the Fast and Furious scandal in which American agents directed guns into the arms of Mexican drug lords. “Goddammit, Sharyl!” he screamed at her. “The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times is reasonable. You’re the only one who’s not reasonable!”
Not only do Obama operatives throw-up roadblocks in the path of whom they perceive as unfriendly reporters, they also make use of their contacts within CBS management to run interference for them, including blood ties:
When the White House didn’t like her reporting, it would make clear where the real power lay. A flack would send a blistering e-mail to her boss, David Rhodes, CBS News’ president — and Rhodes’s brother Ben, a top national security advisor to President Obama.
And, of course the infamous Washington social circuit:
[Attkisson] was turning up leads tying the Fast and Furious scandal (which involved so many guns that ATF officials initially worried that a firearm used in the Tucson shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords might have been one of them) to an ever-expanding network of cases when she got an e-mail from Katie Couric asking if it was OK for Couric to interview Eric Holder, whom Couric knew socially, about the scandal. Sure, replied Attkisson.
No interview with Holder aired but “after that weekend e-mail exchange, nothing is the same at work,” Attkisson writes. “The Evening News” began killing her stories on Fast and Furious, with one producer telling Attkisson, “You’ve reported everything. There’s really nothing left to say.”
The book also calls-out by name the CBS News executives who are in the tank for bureaucratic progressivism in general and the Obama Administration in particular, and allow their political preferences to override any interest in reporting the truth:
Reporting on the many green-energy firms such as Solyndra that went belly-up after burning through hundreds of millions in Washington handouts, Attkisson ran into increasing difficulty getting her stories on the air. A colleague told her about the following exchange: “[The stories] are pretty significant,” said a news exec. “Maybe we should be airing some of them on the ‘Evening News?’ ” Replied the program’s chief Pat Shevlin, “What’s the matter, don’t you support green energy?”
Pre-order the book from Amazon. And never trust the hacks at CBS News to report honestly on politics.
– JVW
She deserves the support of all people who long for the truth and for a media that recognizes what its true responsibilities and role are.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/26/2014 @ 10:36 amCBS executives started W.W.3 with this woman.
mg (31009b) — 10/26/2014 @ 10:42 amIt is interesting to speculate about the degree to which this is a function of the commercial weakness of the media as a function of the democratization of communications and the degree to which this is a function of secular trends in the social composition of that media. I tend to think the latter because of two phenomena noted by Brent Bozell and Fred Barnes respectively, derived from observing media behavior ca. 1997, when economic forces were not yet chewing them to pieces. Bozell’s contention was that there was a canyon separating the behavior of the three networks and the print media regarding reporting on the Clinton Administration, with the broadcast media acting as an extension of the administration’s pr apparat while the print media maintained a degree of independence and broke embarrassing stories. Barnes, who has worked as a newspaper reporter, as the house Republican at The New Republic and at the Weekly Standard and Fox News said that the younger staff at The New Republic during the period running from 1985 to 1995 were getting recruiting calls from major media right and left while he worked there. The younger staff at the Weekly Standard received virtually no calls and hardly ever landed jobs as newspaper reporters (“They go out of their way to avoid hiring conservatives”). Newsday‘s medical editor was hired off the staff of Pacifica Radio and Newsweek‘s culture editor came from the staff of Out magazine, but Fred Barnes couldn’t recall a single alumnus of the Weekly Standard who landed a job as an ordinary reporter.
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:09 amFTFY! 😎
redc1c4 (34e91b) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:23 amI’m glad for the internet. Looks like the old time model of media is dying off just in time.
DejectedHead (532aac) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:33 amI haven’t trusted any of the four old networks since about 1976. ABC, NBC, and CBS were transparently in bed with the Intellectual Left and PBS was and always had been a sour joke.
C. S. P. Schofield (848299) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:37 amA former editor for The Hill was interviewed on a local radio station a few months back. He recalled a situation when they had two applicants for a single opening for a reporter. One applicant was very conservative, the other reliably liberal. The practice at The Hill was to have applicants take a writing test. Both applicants failed miserably. They just couldn’t write. So neither got the job.
A year or so later the editor wondered what ever happened to these two, so out of curiosity he did an internet search on their names. He couldn’t find anything on the conservative. But the liberal was writing for the WaPo. Still very badly. But she was still reliably liberal and down with the cause.
Which is of course the most important thing.
Steve57 (e92787) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:39 amIf I were a WH reporter, I would be aghast at being called “reasonable.”
At least Attkisson remembered she worked for the House of Murrow and Rather.
Kevin M (b357ee) — 10/26/2014 @ 12:04 pmI wonder if Ms. Attkisson was ever assigned a global warming story? CBS’s coverage of that story is even more one-sided (yes, I know that hardly seems possible) than its coverage of the Obama Administration.
Mike Smith (7707c3) — 10/26/2014 @ 12:17 pm“House of Rather”… now there’s a Fortress of Truthiness! #GeldedByAFont
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/26/2014 @ 12:35 pmIssa should hire her.
mg (31009b) — 10/26/2014 @ 12:46 pmDrip, drip, drip.
If the far left wing of the Dems was not in trouble already, this book and Ebola-USA (brought to you by Obama), have destroyed it all together.
Now, let’s hope the GOP can do something right with this gift.
Patricia (5fc097) — 10/26/2014 @ 12:53 pmWhich is of course the most important thing.
And it’s the Washington Post, which once upon a time had a very engaging and creatively run editorial page, head-and-shoulders above that at the New York Times and also retained a degree of professionalism in its reporting as Pinch Sulzberger was having the New York Times do the full Pravda. Other than the Wall Street Journal, the Post was the major media outlet whose line was the least stereotyped.
PBS was and always had been a sour joke.
Their documentary units (Frontline, POV, Ken Burns) are an untrustworthy bit of business, but MacNeill / Lehrer was not bad, just somewhat obtuse on occasion. The political patronage incorporated in the discussion shows (careers for the likes of Jon Meachem and Bill Moyers) were appalling in their way. NPR had good production values and story selection, but the game was generally rigged. One bit of reporting that Barnes did many years ago was on their coverage of Central America. NPR was using as stringers (who broadcast over the air, btw) political pilgrims from the United States who traveled to Nicaragua to amuse themselves, i.e. Lori Berenson types. (Daniel Schorr’s dulcets on the week-end were repellant enough that I turned NPR off for good).
NPR and PBS could readily be much better than they are, but that would require the people running them to disabuse themselves of the notion that common institutions (the courts, higher education, and public broadcasting) are their sandboxes. That they are likely emotionally and intellectually incapable of doing.
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/26/2014 @ 1:24 pmI don’t know what to make of it, but I find it interesting that it is being released on election day (right?).
Interesting that she saw the bogus Bush document and judged it bogus off of the bat.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/26/2014 @ 1:26 pmThose of us so inclined should be praying for her, that she can maintain integrity, speak truth, and survive the slings and arrows of outrageous personal destruction.
Interesting that she saw the bogus Bush document and judged it bogus off of the bat.
Kevin Drum, the blogger at Mother Jones, had his own blog in 2004 and investigated the Bush TANG story hoping it was true. He finally concluded that it was a hoax and that makes him one of the few lefties I trust to get facts right. Opinions are another matter
Mike K (90dfdc) — 10/26/2014 @ 2:59 pm.
“When the White House didn’t like her reporting, it would make clear where the real power lay. A flack would send a blistering e-mail to her boss, David Rhodes, CBS News’ president — and Rhodes’s brother Ben, a top national security advisor to President Obama.
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Unbelievable, but, unsurprising. This is the same Ben Rhodes who penned Obama’s Cairo speech of 2009, a nauseating piece of historical revisionism and abject dishonesty that absolved Muslims of any responsibility for their ideology and their conduct, while fallaciously laying the blame for their infantile behavior on a slew of proxy externalities and alleged slights conjured out of thin air.
The mainstream media has become a propagandist extension of the Obama Administration, and, is responsible for enabling his agenda by not adhering to even a pretense of objectivity in scrutinizing the man and his policies, constantly running interference for him any time a scintilla of criticism is in the air. The number of articles that I saw recently, from CNN and other outfits, explaining why a travel ban of West Africa would be totally pointless, was beyond belief. The content looked as though it had been written by the White House Press Office.
Guy Jones (df6cf0) — 10/26/2014 @ 4:01 pmArt Deco,
When I was young the common justification for PBS was as a check on the major media. The idea that a network payed for in whole or in part by tax money would be LESS biased than the corperate networks is, and always was, hysterically funny, in a black humor sort of way. The same goes for the BBC, doubled, redoubled, in Spades. That PBS tended, by and large, to be anti-American only made the joke funnier.
No media outlet is EVER unbiased. It simply isn’t possible.
C. S. P. Schofield (848299) — 10/26/2014 @ 4:08 pmHaiku–
Rather was a fantastic reporter, once. He pretty much invented investigative reporting. He was an icon at CBS News. Yes, he turned his talents to evil and Democrat partisanship (but I repeat myself), but his glory days as a reporter were pretty glorious.
Again, the administration seems to think they can get the press pool to jump every time they say frog, and they are not far wrong. That does not mean the lot of them shouldn’t be embarrassed for being such poodles.
Kevin M (b357ee) — 10/26/2014 @ 5:37 pmWhen I was young the common justification for PBS was as a check on the major media.
I do not remember that one. My recollection is that the justification was to serve niche audiences the networks ignored because the advertising revenue from them was insufficient (and to provide a quality product, uninterrupted by ads, that the networks would not).
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/26/2014 @ 5:57 pmI believe there were a few others (maybe many others ) besides Sharyl who had good story ideas and who had found solid people who would have been happy to grant interviews for revealing pieces on a variety of controversial issues. I believe they, too, ran into the buzz saw but were not as persistent or brave or as willing to stick their necks out as Sharyl has been. These journalists know who they are and I believe sooner rather than later as it becomes increasingly “safer”, we will begin to hear more and more about this intimidation and interference from the WH and influential media heads and partisan Washington influencers trickle out. Coming late to the party will not excuse or redeem them or remedy the journalistic malfeasance, but perhaps fessing up while naming names will make it easier for them to live with themselves.
elissa (7bd301) — 10/26/2014 @ 6:05 pmI would like to believe that elissa, but that’s not how it works, the Rathergate scam is getting a big screen treatment, so did the Gary Webb claptrap, the hacked voting machines, became a subplot in Scandal, practically every TV show that has dealt even tangentially with F and Furious, (except for CSI Miami) treats it like the CIA operating on it’s own, SOA, Dallas, among the notables,
narciso (ee1f88) — 10/26/2014 @ 6:17 pmShe had the Solyndra story, but at CBS they didn’t like her take on it. What, you are not for green energy?
Her stories often wound up only on the web, not on the air.
Sammy Finkelman (c695e6) — 10/26/2014 @ 6:28 pmI hear you, narciso. It’ll always be the narrative relentlessly being pushed into the culture by the left. I’m talking about actual reporters and journalists though–ones who’ve come out of decent Journalism programs. I’ve known a few of them through grad school and business (not ones with household names or anything like that ) and I can tell you that these folks for the most part do not start out planning to be tools. But along the way they are subtly “taught” and “groomed” and they slowly figure out which stories with which POV get published maybe even with a byline or special place on a media site’s blog. It goes progressively downhill from there and almost like a boiling frog some of them don’t even notice how compromised their ethics have actually become. I hope Sharyl’s bok may remind at least a few of them.
elissa (7bd301) — 10/26/2014 @ 6:30 pm*Sharyl’s book*
elissa (7bd301) — 10/26/2014 @ 6:37 pmThat’s right. That’s why every political reporter should be required to wear a lapel pin showing who they voted for in the most recent elections. It should be published with every article, e.g., “In recent elections, Ms. Crowley has voted for Barack Obama (D), Terry McAuliffe, Mark Warner (D), and Tim Kaine (D).” Let’s not forget financial disclosures and campaign contributions. The information should be as complete as journalists expect it to be for their enemies, Republicans running for office. All this should be optional, of course, but any journalist who doesn’t participate should be treated with great suspicion — and they should be interrogated about it frequently. And politicians should feel free to call them out.
Journalists have too much influence to be treated as private citizens. And they shouldn’t be allowed to conceal their ulterior motives with a veneer of false objectivity.
Let’s get past the warm, fuzzy notion that objectivity is an actual thing.
RightKlik (ce161e) — 10/26/2014 @ 7:09 pmI gave up on CBS News when they modified an Audi 5000 to “prove” that sudden acceleration was real. The phony TANG Bush documents just confirmed my judgement that they are incapable of telling the truth about anything.
f1guyus (647d76) — 10/26/2014 @ 7:13 pm#18, Kevin M, don’t overlook the fact that a young fresh faced Dan Rather of the Texas J School was the one selected to view the Zapruder film and tell the nation what it revealed about the assassination of JFK. It was deemed too graphic for the American public’s eyes.
Rather told us all the shots came from the back because Kennedy’s head was thrust violently forward, but years later when we could all see the tape it was clear Rather lied. JFK’s head was actually thrust back and to the left, that’s why Jackie crawled out on the trunk of the limo to retrieve a chunk of her husband’s skull, and why the motorcycle cop riding on the left rear of the limo got splattered with the President’s blood and brains.
Dan Rather started his career in journalism exactly the same way he ended it: with nothing but bald faced lies and two-faced deceptions. He’ll never live down his Fake but Accurate description of the obviously phony documents.
ropelight (f3cf08) — 10/26/2014 @ 7:56 pmRightKlik (ce161e) — 10/26/2014 @ 7:09 pm
So, should the “non-compliant Journalists be made to wear stars, or triangles?/sarc
Sorry, ReichKlik, but you have just had a totalitarian moment. As Groucho once said, “What ever you are for, I’m against it”.
felipe (40f0f0) — 10/26/2014 @ 7:56 pmJFK’s head was actually thrust back and to the left. . .
Back and to the left.
Back and to the left.
Back, and to the left.
JVW (60ca93) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:03 pmI’m against it!
felipe (40f0f0) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:04 pmwe know from Mitrokhin, that all of that Kennedy conspiracy carp going back to Thomas Buchanan, was part of Soviet desinformatya, more likely than not, was Oswald was being handled by DGI operators, who curiously enough were training in Minsk, at the same time,
narciso (ee1f88) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:12 pmSorry, Kevin… no sale…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuqhAS0x6o&sns=em
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:20 pmJournalists, shmournalists. The publishers, read “owners”, dictate the politics of the outlet. They hire the managers and the managers hire the wordprocessors and talking heads. They’re peons who either write and say what they’re supposed to write and say or hit the highway. Ms. Atkinsson was working for the wrong guys, that’s all. It was true at the time of Colonel McCormick, it was true at the time of William Randolph Hearst, it was true at the time of Thomas Paine, and it is now true at the time of Leslie Moonves.
nk (dbc370) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:21 pm“Ms. Atkinsson was working for the wrong guys, that’s all.”
nk – The point is, how many options does a TV reporter such as Sharyl Atkinson realistically have? Not many.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:29 pmMy point was that “journalists” and “journalistic ethics” are See BS. They do what they’re told. They’re icons and lightning rods because that’s who the public sees, but they’re as much puppets dancing on strings as any Hollywood actor or dialogue writer dancing on a director’s strings. This is not a disparagement of Ms. Atkinsson; it is a debunking of the mythology of her profession.
nk (dbc370) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:40 pmJFK’s head was actually thrust back and to the left, that’s why Jackie crawled out on the trunk of the limo to retrieve a chunk of her husband’s skull, and why the motorcycle cop riding on the left rear of the limo got splattered with the President’s blood and brains.
No clue how you got this idea, but it is wrong in every particular.
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/26/2014 @ 8:45 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/20/us/doctors-affirm-kennedy-autopsy-report.html
“Then, I heard a third shot and felt matter cover us and she said, “They have killed my husband, I have his brains in my hand”.
Mrs. Connolly here
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/m_j_russ/hscacon.htm
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/26/2014 @ 9:00 pmGoddammit Sharyl, EVERYONE ON THE PLANET is a MODERATE…..A GODDDDDAMMMMMED MODERATE, except for you!!! Why can’t you CELEBRATE DIVERSITY SHARYL!!!! A war is coming. Sharyl Atkisson is a hero.
Gus (7cc192) — 10/26/2014 @ 9:45 pmSHARYL,,,,,,,WE ALLLLLL BUNDLE!!!! Can’t you just get with the PROGRAM???
Gus (7cc192) — 10/26/2014 @ 9:47 pmLIBTARD DIMBULBS, like “Elissa” make me laugh. Hey “Elissa”, get your tongue off Opies skinny butt hole. Refute Ms Atkisson or go straight to hell. K?? Refute or shut the eff up!! K?
Gus (7cc192) — 10/26/2014 @ 9:51 pmSAMMY?? Are you CRAZY!!!!? All of the other JOURN-O-LIST-ERS agree. Obama has finely cr pants, polar bears are dying because of Sharyl Atkisson. That is EXACTLY WHY Miss Atkisson must be MUZZLED!!! She must be SILENCED, because that SCIENCE is SETTLED!!!! 2 Rogue agents at the IRS OFFICE in Cincinnati TOLD ME THIS!!!
Gus (7cc192) — 10/26/2014 @ 9:55 pmGus, elissa has been commenting here long before anyone heard of you and she’ll still be commenting here long after you have moved on. Knock off the insults and cool it with the capitalization lest you come off like an unhinged whackjob.
JVW (60ca93) — 10/26/2014 @ 10:04 pm“My point was that “journalists” and “journalistic ethics” are See BS. They do what they’re told….. This is not a disparagement of Ms. Atkinsson; it is a debunking of the mythology of her profession.”
nk – BULLCRAP. I see nothing about mythology or ethics in your prior comment. It’s all say or write what we tell you or hit the highway….she was working for the wrong people.
Guess what, when all you are an investigative reporter and all your story ideas get spiked work sucks the big one. I know a network reporter here in Chicago who quit a couple of years back for the same reasons as Atkinsson, the oppressive liberal bias of the news operation. Answer the question about her options you big blowhard. What are they?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:17 pmGus – FOAD
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:18 pmI suppose I could say, “Dig ditches. Who owes her a job she likes?” But I won’t. I won’t beat up on the lady because you have a reading comprehension problem.
nk (dbc370) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:34 pmLook, the lady probably did believe all that “journalistic ethics” crap. Then she found out her bosses did not. What’s so hard?
nk (dbc370) — 10/26/2014 @ 11:51 pmGus, as has been said by JVW, Elissa has been commenting here for a long time. While I often don’t agree with her, I agree with her comments on this post. Just because the far left uses the kind of language and imagery you used, doesn’t mean you should do the same.
JVW is right, the capitalization makes you come off like an unhinged whackjob, which is sad, since I thought your comments not about Elissa could have been humorous.
I believe the media is corrupt and has been corrupt for a long time. As Mark Twain said;
In the 1940′, I. F. Stone, a “progressive” New York city editor/publisher, said;
There’s also the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
I find that when the media deals with subject matter in which I have expertise, they are often wrong. If they are wrong on subjects I know, how can the media be trusted on anything? It is my conclusion that the media cannot be trusted.
Tanny O'Haley (066e8f) — 10/27/2014 @ 12:30 amGus – that is ridiculous.
JD (a101d6) — 10/27/2014 @ 3:49 am#31, 33, and 36, ever hear of Operation Mockingbird? Type it into you search engine. But for now, consider what you think you know compared to what 2 former directors of the CIA had to say about the role of the national media, you know, the 4th branch of the federal government.
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” – William Colby.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William Casey, CIA Director
If those two quotes don’t make you stop and think, nothing will.
ropelight (6f359f) — 10/27/2014 @ 4:51 amAnd MI-6 and DGSE and BND all have press contacts, imagine if at the outset, of Iran Contra, they would have hid the report from the Lebanese newspaper, and not investigates any further than Eugene Hasenfus, there would have been ‘nothing to see here’ in fact, they do the reverse, as Eric Prince
narciso (ee1f88) — 10/27/2014 @ 5:45 amnotes in his memoir,they printed the legend about Blackwater, they had John Edward’s law partner to aid in that, as with the Levick Group, no slander was too small,
That would be a good thing these days, ropelight. Better than a Kenyan-Indonesian Muslim communist running America.
But I think it’s the conglomerates and holding companies who own Leslie Moonves. With fingers in a lot of pies that require them to cozy up to the powers that be. How many government contracts does Westinghouse have? How many FCC regulations does Viacom need to evade? That kind of thing.
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2014 @ 5:47 amAnd speaking of Kenyan-Indonesian Muslim communists, does the c***sucker want Ebola in America? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/nyregion/ebola-quarantine.html?_r=0
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2014 @ 5:49 amat least one publication whitewashed Anita Busch’s assailant, most have looked away from the Speedway
narciso (ee1f88) — 10/27/2014 @ 6:41 amBomber’s repeated incursion, they keep his publication, Raw Story in good standing,
I remember how the LAT treated Anita Busch.
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2014 @ 6:47 amYeah, Teh Narrative is everywhere…
Check this out: it’s an “experiment” some professors at Dartmouth and Stanford tried, to examine impacts on political participation. Of course it looks like an attempt to push voters. Notice the unnamed person quoted in the article, invoking the Koch brothers.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/montana-election-mailer-state-seal-stanford-dartmouth-professors
It’s going to be a rough few election years.
In other news, nk, I broke down and bought another SpyderCo knife. I’m tired of not being able to open boxes easily here at work.
By the way, it is forbidden on my campus to have squirt guns or Nerf weapons. They are enforcing a “no violence” zone.
I think that academics need to re-read “Animal Farm.”
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/27/2014 @ 7:07 amTeh Crazy Years, when the world went bat fracking nutz
narciso (ee1f88) — 10/27/2014 @ 7:15 amEnemy of the State, it’s a real thing:
http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/10/27/sharyl-attkisson-a-government-related-entity-bugged-my-computer/
narciso (ee1f88) — 10/27/2014 @ 7:38 amI recently bought a Buck 110 and am just now putting my own homegrown $0.41 total cost thumb-stud on it. Literally just now, I’m waiting for the Loctite to set on the second washer. I might post a picture of it. (Can you believe that a #10 plain washer is four cents these days? Inflation is killing this country.)
Which Spyderco did you get?
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2014 @ 7:55 am“I suppose I could say, “Dig ditches. Who owes her a job she likes?” But I won’t. I won’t beat up on the lady because you have a reading comprehension problem.”
nk – No reading comprehension probelem here. You are the person to introduce the strawman ethics and mytholology of journalism to the thread only to set ablaze and now complain when it is pointed out.
You claimed that Sharyll was working for the “wrong guys” in the industry but will not acknowledge the issue that there are very few right guys or even point out who they might be. Whatever you imagine the mythology to be is not the red herring people are mistakenly focused on or have raised except for yourself. It is the inability of all but limited portions of the media to pursue straight news stories stories which may damage the inherent bias of their own organization or preferred side and/or to impart the reported spin of that preferred side to the reporting.
Your grand pronouncements about what workers may or may not be be required are probably certainly true at lower levels, but I suggest you reread that NY Post article to see if CBS was in fact requiring Sharyll to do what they told her to do. The obvious answer is no. The would either not air her work or tell her not to further pursue stories she was developing. Please let me know if you actually know what her last contract said about things like that, because it sure sounds like you are spewing crap from the lip rather than making informed comments.
Attacking and managing media has been a deliberate strategy of Obama since before the 2008 election made more effective by more incestuous relationships with media. Raising red herrings like ethics and bizarre mythology points only distracts from the problem. I suggest you focus more on your cowboy ethics and mythology. They at least have plenty of bullcrap to go around, in your mind.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/27/2014 @ 10:15 amTake another Aricept, daleyrocks.
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2014 @ 10:22 am“Take another Aricept, daleyrocks.”
nk – No idea what that is, but I am grateful for your presence here. Where else can I come every day and receive such awesome delivered wisdom about capitalism as:
Really, I did not know that if you are not the boss you generally cannot call your shots. Who knew. Who here has ever experience that phenomenon? My guess is nobody.
Thank you for your daily revelations.
Now what percent of newsrooms vote Democrat and what percent of the public say they can’t trust the media to be objective? That is probably totally irrelevant to this subject.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/27/2014 @ 10:45 amI actually missed this at first in the New York Post yesterday (although it was the first page of the section where the editorials are) until I saw it mentioned here.
Apparently the book tells you about the stories she covered, but not the details of the stories themselves! Or at least the excerpt didn’t. You would think people would want to know whaat it was they didn’t hear.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/27/2014 @ 10:59 amSammy, you prolly should, you know, purchase the book when it comes out before you critique what’s in it or what’s not in it.
elissa (984932) — 10/27/2014 @ 11:08 amropelight (f3cf08) — 10/26/2014 @ 7:56 pm
JFK’s head was actually thrust back and to the left, that’s why Jackie crawled out on the trunk of the limo to retrieve a chunk of her husband’s skull, and why the motorcycle cop riding on the left rear of the limo got splattered with the President’s blood and brains.
According to the laws of physics, his head should have been thrust toward the front.
In 1974, Luis Alverez, who had won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1968, proved that the laws of ohysics were wrong and JFK’s head indeed should have been thrust backwards..
http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2007/11/its-physics-my-dear-watson-or-pyramids.html
The following website claims that Alvarez’s explanation is not cirrect, but that doesn’t undermine the melon tests, although he claims it does) but it certainly doesn’t undermine photos of one or more American soldiers being shot to death from behind in Vietnam, where that also appears.
http://jfklancer.com/pdf/Jet_Effect_Rebuttal_II_(4-17-2012).pdf
People still don’t have a good explanation of what keeps an airplane in the air. It’s not tehe Bernoulli effect. Fluid dynamics isn’t understood at all.
So I wouldn’t rest my case on Luis Alvarezs being 100% correct.
Now if Dan Rather reported what he thought should have happened, rather than what did happen, then that’s not good.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/27/2014 @ 11:17 am63. elissa (984932) — 10/27/2014 @ 11:08 am
Sammy, you prolly should, you know, purchase the book when it comes out before you critique what’s in it or what’s not in it.
All I know is what in the New York Post stiry by Kyle Smith. I said it was maybe just the excerpt that left all of that out.
And indeed his article might have omitted all of that.
The book will be available on Election Day, November 4th. The hacking story is on the back cover -in fact, I think I read that before.
Other books bought by people who viewed this item are:
1. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff $16.49
2. Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General by Bill O’Reilly
(I spotted that on the New York times best seller list. I wonder what that was about. Apparently there is reaosn to beleive that the accident that killed him wasn’t an accident. How come I only hear about this now?
3. Power Grab by Dick Morris
4. The Undocumented Mark Steyn by Mark Steyn
Amazon can give you a reading list.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/27/2014 @ 11:28 amWhy is any of this shocking? We’ve known this for decades. If there is anyone reading this who is complaining about the leftwing slant of the news while still paying a cable bill or subscribing to a newspaper or clicking on sites like WaPo or LAT or NYT or CNN or Politico, then YOU are the problem. Stop catering to leftwing news sites/services and starve them of cash.
UncleDan (efea20) — 10/27/2014 @ 3:11 pmFor the same reason you didn’t know why Thomas Duncan couldn’t get a plasma transfusion from Ebola survivor Dr. Brantly. Unless and until the NYT deems it fit to print you’re not going to hear about it.
Steve57 (e92787) — 10/27/2014 @ 4:07 pmO’Reilly, by the way isn’t the first one to write a book theorizing that somebody assassinated Patton.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3869117/General-George-S.-Patton-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html
Steve57 (e92787) — 10/27/2014 @ 4:14 pm” …detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton’s Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch”.
I recall seeing a movie about just that. I forget the title. Let me think….
felipe (40f0f0) — 10/27/2014 @ 4:34 pmGus, does your wife Karen know you are still threatening women on the internet? That’s not nice.
Wendell (6af3a8) — 10/30/2014 @ 1:18 pm