The Obama administration is pursuing an ‘aggressive’ campaign ‘designed to have a chilling effect’ on journalists, according to former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson in a Fox News interview this year.
“There’s pressure coming to bear on journalists for just doing their job in ways that have never come to bear before.” “It’s very well organized,” she also states.
In the interview she outlines how the Obama admin directly pushes back against reporters trying to run stories the administration doesn’t like.
Censorship of the media is, of course, completely necessary to a communist state.
Last year we saw Obama try to insert the FCC into every newsroom in the country, which was met with enough public resistance to force the administration to stop the attempt.
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson accused the White House of running an unprecedented pressure campaign against journalists, claiming they are pursuing a “particularly aggressive, well-organized” strategy “designed to have some kind of a chilling effect” on the American press.
Attkisson spoke with Fox News’ Howard Kurtz on Sunday about her early departure from CBS and her battles with the Obama administration for access to information. An investigative reporter who covered White House bugbears like Benghazi and Fast and Furious, she left CBS before her contract expired because she felt network executives inappropriately shot down her stories.
But in her conversation with Kurtz, Attkission made it clear that she ultimately blames the Obama administration itself for her bosses’ timidity.
“I think any journalist who has been covering Washington for a few years would agree… that there is pressure coming to bear on journalists for just doing their job in ways that have never come to bear before,” she began.
“There have always been tensions, there have always been calls from the White House — under any administration, I assume — when they don’t like a particular story,” she admitted. “But it is particularly aggressive under the Obama administration, and I think it’s a campaign that’s very well organized and designed to have sort of a chilling effect.”
“And to some degree,” she continued, “has been somewhat successful in getting broadcast producers who don’t really want to deal with the headache of it. Why put on the controversial stories that we are going to have to fight people on when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don’t ruffle the same feathers?”
The reporter claimed she and her bosses both received direct pushback from the White House, including phone calls and emails pressuring them to change or retract stories.
“Even, really the last year or so, when I would write an article online — which would be sort of the fallback position when something couldn’t get on television but was still a great story that could be circulated, I’d publish it online — they would even call about those,” she revealed. “Or they would call about the headline of the online article.”
She added that her CBS bosses “didn’t defend them, in some cases, as strongly as we should have.”
Attkission later outlined the specific tactics the Obama White House uses to destroy factual stories that they feel portrays them poorly.
ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS NOT WATCH THOSE CHANNELS ANYMORE, BECAUSE WITHOUT RATINGS THEY WILL CRASH!!!! PLEASE DON’T WATCH THOSE CHANNELS, THAT ARE ALLOWING OBAMA TO TELL THEM WHAT TO REPORTAND WHAT THEY BETTER NOT REPORT. THEY ARE FALLING FOR HIS SOCIALISM!!!!!! THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE THEM WAKE UP IS WITH TERE RATINGS!!!!!!
That is a way to control the people … State run News….dictators use this
Maybe she should have said something before she collected 20 years worth of paychecks while claiming everyone else was a conspiracy theorist.
She probably would have … if this had been happening 20 years ago, but obviously, it was not. So, apparently, this has just gotten bad enough in the recent years that she decided enough was enough. Makes perfect sense to people with common sense and logic.
Reporters should fallow OUR Constitutional rights even when Obama WILL NOT!!!
he is also banning some reporters from the White House press briefings
BATTLE the EVIL while in HUMAN FORM: https://plus.google.com/u/0/117953276774098078497/posts/Cx2xrJ4sivD
Illegal, impeach him now!
He really believes that he is a dictator, well guess what he is not one nor never will be one.In his sick mind he thinks this will take place before he has to leave office in 2016. So America we as the people need to stand together to keep this from happening. Stand up for America and keep the House and get the Senate in 2014, this is the only way to get America from becoming a communist Nation. God bless America and her people.
sometimes I think the liberal media deserves it
Yea, and a couple of them have even got themselves dead.