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Sharyl Attkisson Resigns from CBS News
Poitico ^ | Monday, March 10, 2014 | Dylan Byers

Posted on 03/10/2014 11:42:33 AM PDT by kristinn

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 packages on television.

At the same time, Attkisson's own reporting on the Obama administration, which some staffers characterized as agenda-driven, had led network executives to doubt the impartiality of her reporting. She is currently at work on a book -- tentatively titled "Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington" -- which addresses the challenges of reporting critically on the Obama administration.

Feeling increasingly stymied and marginalized at the network, Attkisson began talking to CBS News President David Rhodes as early as last April about getting out of her contract. Those negotiations intensified in recent weeks, and her request was finally honored on Monday.

Reached by phone, Attkisson described her resignation as "amicable." She said she will now turn her attention to the book, which is being published by HarperCollins (and not by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS Corporation.) She declined to comment further.

Sonya McNair, the senior vice president for communications for CBS News, said in a statement: “CBS News veteran Sharyl Attkisson is leaving the news division to pursue other endeavors. We appreciate her many contributions and we wish her well.”

But Attkisson had become a polarizing figure at the network, sources there said...

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1 posted on 03/10/2014 11:42:33 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

wow!


2 posted on 03/10/2014 11:44:01 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: kristinn

If Fox is smart, they’ll sign her today.


3 posted on 03/10/2014 11:44:17 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: kristinn

BTTT


4 posted on 03/10/2014 11:47:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Fox... or The Blaze!!


5 posted on 03/10/2014 11:47:21 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I’ll bet the terms of her departure will prevent that, at least for a while.


6 posted on 03/10/2014 11:47:27 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Broi)
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To: PapaBear3625

“But Attkisson had become a polarizing figure at the network, sources there said...’

There is nothing more polarizing to progressives than truth.


7 posted on 03/10/2014 11:47:36 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: PapaBear3625
If Fox is smart, they’ll sign her today.

Can't wait to see this courageous lady providing major network reporting on critical issues without being stymied and marginalized by her employer.

8 posted on 03/10/2014 11:47:39 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: kristinn
How many more real journalists will follow her example?
9 posted on 03/10/2014 11:48:41 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: PapaBear3625

Bet the farm she goes to Fox News. I believe she meets their special appearance requirement expected of females, as well.


10 posted on 03/10/2014 11:49:02 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: kristinn

Maybe she prefers an organization where she can report the (upcoming) Arpaio revelations about Obamatollah......

....without having the lives of her family threatened by the Marxists/Islamists that control the US government.


11 posted on 03/10/2014 11:49:04 AM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: kristinn

She committed the crime of journalism at CBS.


12 posted on 03/10/2014 11:49:10 AM PDT by AU72
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To: kristinn

Mark Steyn just mentioned this on the radio (Rush fill in) ten seconds ago.

I wonder if Steyn has a freeper handle?

“Hey, Mark! Love your work!”


13 posted on 03/10/2014 11:49:34 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kristinn

Leftist intolerance on display

Nuthin but gangsters - don’t lockstep with the party line? Yer out

Stalinists one and all


14 posted on 03/10/2014 11:49:43 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Travis McGee

I believe he and Rush both have Freeper handles.

Kinda crazy to think you could be talking to either one at any time and not know it! lol


15 posted on 03/10/2014 11:50:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: Travis McGee

I remember Breitbart had one..


16 posted on 03/10/2014 11:50:49 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Sharyl didn't play ball like all the other Sally Sweetlies working for American Pravda.


17 posted on 03/10/2014 11:51:14 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Yeah. “Hi, Sharyl!”


18 posted on 03/10/2014 11:51:46 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kristinn

Another glaring example made, and the message reinforced.

Play along with the Liberal/Democrat/Gay agenda as determined by Julie Brown’s partygoer’s, or kiss your national media job goodbye.

Not many will have the stones to kiss their careers g’bye, and their livelyhoods, in this kind of an environment.


19 posted on 03/10/2014 11:51:54 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: kristinn
The bulk of Attkisson’s work since 2009 has focused on the failures or perceived failures of the Obama administration

Failure? Obama? Cognitive dissonance at CBS.

20 posted on 03/10/2014 11:53:09 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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