Sharyl Attkisson’s principled quest to destroy what’s left of her credibility

Sharyl Attkisson’s principled quest to destroy what’s left of her credibility

The next Bernard Goldberg? When you can no longer cut it in journalism go to work for Fox. Salon writes…

Sharyl Attkisson’s principled quest to destroy what’s left of her credibility

The next Bernard Goldberg?

Sharyl Attkisson has principles. The former CBS News investigative correspondent became a heroine to conservatives for her intense, unerring, borderline obsessive focus on Benghazi. She ended up resigning from the network in March, implying that her bosses were trying to censor her and infect her reporting with malicious political bias. With that act of career martyrdom she instantly became a candidate for canonization by right-wing pundits and activists, and an important figure in the ongoing Benghazi conspiracy, which assumes a certain amount of media complicity in covering up THE TRUTH. Since then Attkisson has made the rounds with conservative […]