March 25, 2008
CBS's Sharyl Attkisson Pillories Hillary's Memories
MSM Member Does the Unusual: Calls a Lie a Lie on Air
By Tony Seaton
Huntingtonnews.net City Editor
I was Sharyl Attkisson's cameraman a few times at the Tampa CBS affilitate in the 80s, [PULSE News-WTVT] so I'm not surprised that she did such a bang-up job of straight call-em-like-you-see-em reportage as she did in the report below; I've seen her in action before. But it is unusual for a member of the mainstream media to rock the boat like this these days. Although a website called ''Newsbusters'' which claims to ''expose 'liberal' media bias, claims it broke the story first, anybody who knows anything about corporate-owned media knows that the bias seen in MSM reporting skews straight down the administration's neoconservative, Fox 'News'-party line, but this report, which calls Hillary out on a blatant misstatement, if anything, is hard to call for bias either way. Some claim the right wants to run against Hillary more than Obama, so that would make it right-leaning, but it slams a Democrat so, theoretically it hurts the liberal ''bias'' argument. You be the judge. I just call it good reporting. Let the chips fall where they may.
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MSM Member Does the Unusual: Calls a Lie a Lie on Air
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By Tony Seaton
Huntingtonnews.net City Editor
I was Sharyl Attkisson's cameraman a few times at the Tampa CBS affilitate in the 80s, [PULSE News-WTVT] so I'm not surprised that she did such a bang-up job of straight call-em-like-you-see-em reportage as she did in the report below; I've seen her in action before. But it is unusual for a member of the mainstream media to rock the boat like this these days. Although a website called ''Newsbusters'' which claims to ''expose 'liberal' media bias, claims it broke the story first, anybody who knows anything about corporate-owned media knows that the bias seen in MSM reporting skews straight down the administration's neoconservative, Fox 'News'-party line, but this report, which calls Hillary out on a blatant misstatement, if anything, is hard to call for bias either way. Some claim the right wants to run against Hillary more than Obama, so that would make it right-leaning, but it slams a Democrat so, theoretically it hurts the liberal ''bias'' argument. You be the judge. I just call it good reporting. Let the chips fall where they may.
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