Report: CBS News Bosses Irked by Correspondent's Thorough Benghazi Reporting

[libertyjam]

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/05/08/report-cbs-news-bosses-irked-by-correspondents-thorough-benghazi-reporting-n1591242

Guy Benson | May 08, 2013
Guy Benson


The biggest Benghazi-related story that took place outside of the House Oversight Committee's hearing room today is this item in Politico, regarding CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. She's the reporter who famously drew White House officials' profane ire over her unapologetic pursuit of the Fast & Furious scandal story; now she's apparently facing searing criticism from another source: Her own bosses. Why? Because she's been covering the Benghazi story too aggressively. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you media bias:

"Attkisson, who holds a third-degree black belt in taekwondo, takes a fighting stance when she feels she’s being stonewalled. Which is exactly what she thinks the White House has done to her on Benghazi," Farhi writes. But from where Attkisson is sitting, there are actually two Goliaths, one of which is almost entirely absent from the Post profile. The second Goliath is CBS News, which has grown increasingly frustrated with Attkisson's Benghazi campaign. CBS News executives see Attkisson wading dangerously close to advocacy on the issue, network sources have told POLITICO. Attkisson can't get some of her stories on the air, and is thus left feeling marginalized and underutilized. That, in part, is why Attkisson is in talks to leave CBS ahead of contract, as POLITICO reported in April. Farhi mentions "internal conflicts" in the final paragraph, though he seems to dismiss them. The "internal conflicts" are indeed real -- Attkisson is still eyeing an exit, according to sources -- and provide important context for today's piece. Today, CBS News is celebrating Attkisson's commitment to the Benghazi story. It's good press. But that support is an aberration.

[jmdrake]

LOL. Could the mockingbird be dying?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCfTIapds0

[libertyjam]

Who Is Giving White House Orders to CBS News on Benghazi?
by Breitbart News (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/09/Ben-Rhodes-Benghazi)

With reports suggesting that CBS News brass is unhappy with reporter Sheryl Attkisson for her focus on the White House’s actions surrounding the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012, new questions are being raised about the relationship between CBS News and the Obama administration. According to the Washington Post:

[Attkisson] says she has received “a tremendous amount of pushback” from the White House as a result of her reporting on Benghazi and Fast and Furious. Among other things, she says, White House officials have called and written her bosses at CBS to complain about her work. She says she doesn’t find that unusual or even disturbing.

Who from the White House is talking to the higher-ups at CBS? There are many candidates, but sources tell Breitbart News that one obvious candidate is Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for communication for Barack Obama. Rhodes has worked for Obama since 2007, and works under National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.

Rhodes’ brother, David Rhodes, is the president of CBS News. He “directs network newsgathering for all CBS News platforms,” according to the CBS News website.

Ben Rhodes has been named as a central player in the revision of the Benghazi talking points that ended with Ambassador Susan Rice going on network television and lying about the nature of the Benghazi attacks by labeling them results of a spontaneous protest about a YouTube video. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard writes:

CIA officials cut all references to Ansar al Sharia and made minor tweaks. But in a follow-up email at 9:24 p.m., Nuland wrote that the problem remained and that her superiors—she did not say which ones—were unhappy. The changes, she wrote, did not “resolve all my issues or those of my building leadership,” and State Department leadership was contacting National Security Council officials directly. Moments later, according to the House report, “White House officials responded by stating that the State Department’s concerns would have to be taken into account.” One official—Ben Rhodes, The Weekly Standard is told, a top adviser to President Obama on national security and foreign policy—further advised the group that the issues would be resolved in a meeting of top administration officials the following morning at the White House.

The relationship between Ben and David became fodder for comment from Israeli Prime Minister in March 2013, when Netanyahu cracked, “It sounds like a very incestuous relationship.” Obama cracked back, “Not if you watch CBS News.”

[HOLLYWOOD]

All the major networks still have their Propaganda Sundays... oh, and CBS chief Leslie Moonves still keeps his somewhat believable to idiots, Bob Schieffer on CBS FACE THE NATION.

The problem in this country, and basically the entire world is every study, both domestic and international, have proven that 90% of the people are followers. Progressives follow the Democratic Party and their corrupt/self absorbed/elitist/limousine liberal politicians like zombies. Progressive Zombie Apocalypse just keeps rerunning like the MATRIX over & over no matter what the costs. It's what mundanes want to believe...


“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William Casey, CIA Director 1981

http://www.whale.to/b/casey_13.gif

[pcosmar]

LoL
at credible news sources.

[pcosmar]

LOL. Could the mockingbird be dying?


Nope,
they just try to be "more careful" about it.

[ClydeCoulter]

So, this Sharyl Attkisson, where does she lean or is she politically neutral? (I ask, because if she's looking for something with more meat, Ben Swann might be able to make use of some good investigators)

[Henry Rogue]

Sharyl Attkisson Wikipedia> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson

[WhistlinDave]

LOL. Could the mockingbird be dying?


Nope,
they just try to be "more careful" about it.

If the Internet is a web, then in that web we have a bird eating spider licking its chops. The Mockingbird is no longer safe.... We probably never would've heard this story (about this reporter) or so many other ones, just 20 years ago...

[osan]

If the Internet is a web, then in that web we have a bird eating spider licking its chops. The Mockingbird is no longer safe.... We probably never would've heard this story (about this reporter) or so many other ones, just 20 years ago...

The network has proven the great cluster copulation Theye never anticipated, which is why the relative freedom there has been under iterative waves of attack.

If and when Theye break the spine and establish the network dictatorship they so desire, some people will then understand how important that freedom was. Alas, it will be too late at that point.

[Aratus]

LOL. Could the mockingbird be dying?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCfTIapds0

i hope many of you younger posters here have the patience to listen to this clip.
MOCKINGBIRD could have been ongoing under ronnie reagan via a name change
and could be thriving & up and running as we speak. in mayhap the early 80s an
opined speculation assumes that our sitting POTUS was briefly hired by "the agency"
for possibly 6 months to a year or two & maybe had been at the famous virginia farm.