“They never mind the stories that seem to…go against the grain of the Republican Party.”
Sharyl Attkisson, the investigative reporter who resigned from CBS News and said the network clamped down on stories critical of the Obama administration, on Sunday said Media Matters targeted her and may have been paid to do so.
Attkisson added in her interview with CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter that while she never was discouraged from hard-hitting reports on the George W. Bush administration, when it came to her critical coverage of the Obama White House, CBS regularly balked.
As for Media Matters, a left-leaning outfit that critiques news coverage, Attkisson said that “when I persisted with Fast and Furious and some of the green energy stories I was doing, I clearly at some point became a target.”
When asked if someone paid Media Matters to come after her, Attkisson replied, “Well, they get contributions.”
As for the differences between how CBS News brass treated and covered the Bush compared to the Obama administration, Attkisson noted that she “didn’t sense any resistance to doing stories that were perceived to be negative to the Bush administration by anybody ever.” But as for the Obama White House, she said “I have done stories that were not received well because people thought they would reflect poorly upon this administration.”
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