I think WB understands to be honest. He just wants favorable reporting for his corrupt president. Sheryl gears her stuff for people like him. It’s pretty evident from her output that there isn’t going to be any tough reporting on Trump or his administration. It just isn’t tolerated by maga and she seems to be content collecting the paychecks.
Originally Posted by iggy
Glossing over the fact she works for Sinclair is really embracing that stupid douche choice, asshat.
A summary of Sharyl Attkisson's 45-plus-year career in journalism, noting her many awards for journalism excellence and objective journalism standards, applied whether she was reporting on Republican or Democrat administrations. That for decades was mostly investigating and embarassing Republican administrations, and that she only was censored by CBS when she applied the same investigative journalism standards to the Obama administration, that CBS suddenly began editing, blunting and/or not airing her stories.
Attkisson began her career in broadcast journalism as a reporter at WUFT-TV, the PBS station in Gainesville, Florida, in 1982. She later worked as an anchor and reporter at WTVX-TV in Fort Pierce/West Palm Beach from 1982 to 1985, at WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, from 1985 to 1986, and at WTVT in Tampa, from 1986 to 1990.[17]
From 1990 to 1993, Attkisson was an anchor for CNN, and served as a key anchor for CBS covering space exploration in 1993.[18] Attkisson left CNN in 1993,[19] moving to CBS, where she anchored the television news broadcast CBS News Up to the Minute until January 1995, then became an investigative correspondent based in Washington, D.C.[17][20]
She served on the University of Florida's Journalism College Advisory Board (1993–1997) and was its chair in 1996.[17] The university gave her an Outstanding Achievement Award in 1997. From 1996 to 2001, Attkisson hosted the PBS health-news magazine HealthWeek.[17]
Attkisson received an Investigative Reporters and Editors (I.R.E.) Finalist award for Dangerous Drugs in 2000.[21] In 2001, Attkisson received an Investigative Emmy Award nomination for Firestone Tire Fiasco from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.[22]
In 2002, she co-authored the college textbook Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News. Later that same year she won an Emmy Award for her investigative journalism about the American Red Cross.[17][23] Attkisson was part of the CBS News team that received the RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2005 for Overall Excellence.[21]
In 2006, Attkisson served as Capitol Hill correspondent for CBS,[24] one of a small number of female anchors covering the 2006 midterms.[25] Attkisson was a member of the CBS News team that received RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2008 for Overall Excellence.[21]
In 2008, when Hillary Clinton said she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia, Attkisson, who was on the trip, refuted Clinton's account, saying the trip to Bosnia was risky but that there were no bullets to dodge. The Washington Post also expressed skepticism and reported that there were no 'documented security threats' included in a review of 100 news articles from the time.[26] The day after Attkisson's report on the CBS Evening News, Clinton admitted there was no sniper fire and said she "misspoke".[27][28]
In 2009, Attkisson won an Investigative Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting for her exclusive reports on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and the bank bailout.[21]
In 2010, Attkisson was nominated for two Emmy Awards for investigations into members of Congress and waste of tax dollars.[29] In July 2011, Attkisson was again nominated, for Follow the Money investigations into Congressional travel to the Copenhagen climate summit, and problems with aid to Haiti earthquake victims.[21][30]
In 2012, Attkisson received an award reporting on ATF's Fast and Furious gunwalker controversy from Accuracy in Media, a conservative news media watchdog group.[31] In June 2012, Attkisson's investigative reporting for the gunwalker story also won the CBS Evening News the Radio and Television News Directors Association's National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Video Investigative Reporting.[32] In July 2012, Attkisson's Gunwalker: Fast and Furious reporting received an Emmy Award.[33]
The following year, Exposing the Business of Congress, which examined the impact of lobbyists on the United States Congress, was awarded an Emmy for investigative journalism in a newscast,[34] while her work on Green Energy Going Red and Libya: Dying for Security led to nominations.[35] Exposing the Business of Congress was also nominated for a 2013 Gerald Loeb Award in the broadcast category.[36]
On March 10, 2014, Attkisson resigned from CBS News in what she stated was an "amicable" parting.[37][38] Politico reported that according to sources within CBS there had been tensions leading to "months of hard-fought negotiations" – that Attkisson had been frustrated over what she perceived to be the network's liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting, as well as issues she had with the network's corporate partners, while some colleagues within the network saw her reporting as agenda-driven and doubted her impartiality.[38] Erik Wemple, in his Washington Post blog, said CBS News had greater resources to deal with potential litigation than Attkisson as an individual and commented "if her nearly aired stories are as bulletproof as she suggests, where’s the risk?"[39] He quoted Sonya McNair, a spokesman for CBS News, who had told him the operation "maintains the highest journalistic standards in what it chooses to put on the air. Those standards are applied without fear or favor."[39]
Attkisson's book Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington was published by Harper later in 2014 and became a New York Times best seller.[40]
Her second book, The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote, was published by HarperCollins in summer 2017.[41] It also became a New York Times best seller.[42]
In 2017, Attkisson created a media bias chart that was reused by right-wing blog PJ Media[43] and characterized as "a bastardization" of that produced by Ad Fontes Media.[44] According to PolitiFact, this chart "labels anything not overtly conservative as 'left'". The news outlets with a purported left bias include the Associated Press, Reuters, the American television networks ABC, NBC/CNBC, and CBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Politico, and USA Today.[45] BuzzFeed News reported in August 2018 that Attkisson indicated on her website that she compiled the "subjective" chart "from various sources and your feedback".[46] She linked "various sources" to a study from the Pew Research Center, a Washington think tank that BuzzFeed said "measures audience bias, not the alleged bias of an outlet and a college library's website that cites another college library's project describing media outlets." Attkisson's chart includes such websites as InfoWars (to which Attkisson is reported to link from her own site).[46]
Her book Slanted: How the News Media Taught us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism was published in November 2020.[47]
Wow.
According to Left-leaning Wikipedia, who would certainly cite such a bias with all the venom they could summon, Sharyl Attkisson's right-wing bias is SO PREVALENT and SO OVERWHELMING that.... Wikipedia makes no mention of it. Nothing. But she certainly has decades of the highest journalistic credentials and awards.
Also, her conservative bias and connection to Sinclair is SO PREVALENT THAT... again, nothing mentioned.
And by the way, I'm a well documented conservative here on RKMB since 2001, who prides myself to be on the pulse of all things conservative since at least 1980, and till now I've never even heard of Sinclair media. And again, no mention of Sinclair in relation to Sharyl Attkisson by ultra-Left Wikipedia, who would triple-orgasm and hyperventilate over such a connection.
... I don't feel like reading all that right now, but despite owning a couple hundred local channels and syndicated series, and other broadcast or internet streaming ventures, many of which I've watched not even knowing their connection to Sinclair, such as the channel Comet (sci-fi and detective shows, like Criminal Minds, X-Files and the 1990's version of The Outer Limits), channel ROAR (that airs comedy shows and Saturday Night Live re-runs) or the syndicated daily show National News Desk, I never would have guessed to watch them that they are owned by a conservative broadcast company, and detected no conservative message in their programming.
The few overtly conservative programs they require (i.e., "Must run segments"), I would consider just something resembling equal time, a tiny drop of conservatism, in an ocean of liberal bias, as the Left tries to snuff out all dissenting conservative political thought by not airing them, that even when Sinclair mandates local (liberal) stations air them, STILL don't come anywhere close to conservative equal time, just the barest bones of conservative representation in the national political dialogue by airing them.
