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Media integrity is GONE.

Tam

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Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Emails Reveal White House Hid Truths About Benghazi Attack
Nick Gillespie & Amanda Winkler | May 3, 2014

"If we knew everything then that we know now, one week after it happened, I think that would have been really devastating to [Obama's reelection] campaign," says former CBS reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, referencing the 2012 Benghazi terrorists attacks. Recently revealed White House emails suggest that the Obama administration may have attempted to mislead the American public by placing the blame on an Internet video and not Islamic terrorists, which would have raised questions about Obama's foreign policy strategy.

Attkisson, an award winning investigative reporter, was one of the few journalists who continued pursuing the Benghazi story long after many in the main stream media lost interest. According to Attkisson, her bosses at CBS wanted her to drop the story. As a result, she left CBS, her employer for two decades, this past March over what she claims is "liberal bias" at the network and a lack of serious devotion to investigative reporting.



She goes on to say that many in her field are frustrated by the decline of hard-hitting investigative reporting endemic at all networks and not just CBS. The congealing of corporate, news, and political interests at networks have made investigative journalism a relic of the past.

"As one whistleblower put it to me: things have never been worse for people who try to speak the truth inside the government about illegalities and wrong doing. In their view, and I tend to agree, every administration is more clamped down and closed than the one before it. And the next one starts at the finishing point. It's very hard to make it go backwards. There are rules being implemented now against journalists and the type of work that we do that I think will be very hard to unwind."

Attkisson sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to discuss her reporting on Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and the decline of investigative journalism in America.

Ms. Attkisson was let go for her coverage of Benghazi and now the other CBS reporter that dared to report on Benghazi, Lara Logan is being the target of nasty career destroying articles from the left bias media. Is it any wonder that reporters are not willing to investigate this Administration and report the truth? There should be a law against family members of media outlet CEO's working in the White House. Email hiding Ben Rhode's brother was the boss of both Attkisson and Logan. Does anyone believe he is going to allow a report that makes Obama look bad?
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Tam

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Faster horses said:
Harry Reid came on yesterday to say that news media favored Republicans.

SAY WHAT?????????? :mad: :evil:

JUNE 14, 2004 • Editions: N. America | Europe | Asia | Edition Preference
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
By Robert J. Barro
The Liberal Media: It's No Myth
Many people think the mainstream media have a liberal bias. Media spokesmen,
however, usually deny such claims. So who's right? Is there a left-wing bias, or has the
right wing conspired not only to influence the media but also to create a false image of
unfairness? Some scientific evidence is available in a continuing study, A Measure of
Media Bias, by Tim Groseclose of the University of California at Los Angeles and Jeff
Milyo of the University of Chicago, presented last March at Stanford University's Workshop on the Media &
Economic Performance. These researchers set up an objective measure of bias in U.S. television networks,
newspapers, and magazines. The main finding is that the liberal inclination is pronounced. Although Fox News
emerges as conservative, it is not nearly as far to the right as many outlets are to the left. Groseclose and Milyo began with the well-known ratings of the voting records of U.S. senators and
representatives by Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a self-described liberal lobbying group. The
researchers used data for the 1990s and adjusted the ADA scores to make them comparable over time and
across the two chambers. On a 0-100 scale, with 100 the most liberal, the median member of the U.S. House
had an ADA score of 39. Thus, 39 is a reasonable measure of a centrist position. Among well-known senators,
Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) had a highly conservative score of 4, whereas Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) had a
strikingly liberal score of 80.
THE NEXT STEP MEASURED the tendency of Senate and House members in their speeches to cite 200
prominent think tanks. The citations considered were those that referred favorably to a view or fact presented by
a think tank. Not counted were negative citations or those purely descriptive of a think tank's actions. As an
example, the Heritage Foundation was cited by legislators whose average ADA ratings were 6 -- that is, very
conservative. Also highly conservative were the Family Research Council (rating of 6) and the National Right
to Life Committee (7). Left-wing think tanks included the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities (80), the
Children's Defense Fund (77), and the Economic Policy Institute (72). Surprisingly, the American Civil
Liberties Union was centrist (35), an outcome driven by the ACLU's opposition to campaign-finance reform.
The last step measured the tendency of various media outlets to cite the same 200 think tanks. The researchers
considered only "news stories" -- not editorials, letters to the editor, and so on. The periods covered ranged from
1990 to 2003. Again, the citations were those that referred favorably to a view or fact provided by a think tank.
The researchers used this information to calculate a right- vs. left-wing indicator for each media outlet --
effectively, an ADA rating. The assumption is that media outlets that refer favorably to conservative think tanks
are reasonably characterized as conservative, whereas those that refer positively to liberal think tanks are
plausibly labeled as liberal. The final product (in a preliminary table provided by the authors) was a list of
computed ADA ratings for the media outlets.
On the conservative end, Fox News Special Report came out with a rating of 27; that is, 12 points more
conservative than the 39 of the median member of the House. The only other right-of-center outlet was The
Washington Times, at 34.
On the liberal end, Newsweek had an astonishing rating of 72 -- that's 33 points more liberal than the House
median. Other highly liberal outlets included The New York Times, Time magazine, the CBS Evening News,
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USA Today, and NBC Nightly News. These scores ranged from 62 to 64, about 25 points above the House
median. For viewers seeking truly "fair and balanced" reporting, the best outlets were ABC Good Morning
America and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The ADA scores for these programs were 39 and 41, respectively.
Places moderately left of center were CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown (49), The Washington Post (53),
NPR's Morning Edition (55) and ABC WorldNews Tonight (55).
Because of problems in data collection, the list excluded The Wall Street Journal, but it will be added soon.
Also excluded is talk radio, which seems to have a conservative bent. Bottom line: The Groseclose-Milyo study
shows the media are skewed substantially to the left of the typical member of Congress. Thus, if the opinions of
viewers and readers are similar to those of their representatives, the media slant is far to the left of that of most
of their customers.
Robert J. Barro is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution


Yep the Media favors the Republicans :roll: :roll:

Leave it to Reid to make a statement that everyone knows it is totally false :roll: [/b][/quote]
 

Mike

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Faster horses said:
Harry Reid came on yesterday to say that news media favored Republicans.

SAY WHAT?????????? :mad: :evil:

It's all a distraction to muddy up the news with wild myths to keep the real headlines from being prominent.
 

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