CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has reached an agreement to resign from CBS News ahead of contract, bringing an end to months of hard-fought negotiations, sources familiar with her departure told POLITICO on Monday.
Attkisson, who has been with CBS News for two decades, had grown frustrated with what she saw as the network’s liberal bias, an outsize influence by the network’s corporate partners and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting, several sources said. She increasingly felt that her work was no longer supported and that it was a struggle to get her reporting on air.
At the same time, Attkisson’s reporting on the Obama administration, which some staffers characterized as agenda-driven, had led network executives to doubt the impartiality of her reporting. She is currently at work on a book — tentatively titled “Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington” — that addresses the challenges of reporting critically on the administration.
Feeling increasingly stymied and marginalized at the network, Attkisson began talking to CBS News President David Rhodes as early as last April about getting out of her contract. Those negotiations intensified in recent weeks, and her request was finally honored on Monday.
Reached by phone, Attkisson described her resignation as “amicable.” She said she will now turn her attention to the book, which is being published by HarperCollins, a division of NewsCorp (and not by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS Corp.).
Sonya McNair, senior vice president for communications for CBS News, said in a statement: “CBS News veteran Sharyl Attkisson is leaving the news division to pursue other endeavors. We appreciate her many contributions and we wish her well.”
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Hopefully Fox News will scoop her up
CBS and she said the split was amiable.
Someone as good at investigative reporting is bound to be picked up somewhere else if and when she is ready.
@Nanny G:
I do not doubt that CBS was pleased to see someone who actually did her job be gone.
“Sharyl Attkisson has reached an agreement to resign” is just polite talk. Attkisson still gets to trash CBS in her book like Bernie Goldberg did in his. With Attkisson resigning vocally about bias, and the newsreader from Russia Today resigning on air for the same reason, and another story on Flopping Aces about 7 Democrats voting not to confirm a man who represented and supported a convicted cop killer, are dogs and cats living together yet?
Haven’t watched CBS news in decades. Read some of Attkisson’s articles on line from time to time so knew who she was. Good on her for doing what feels right for her.
CBS has news?
She’s smart, attractive and apparently has some principles. She’ll be picked up someplace that has room for that. Perhaps the folks at FNC will be calling.
Yes, she will wind up @ Fox and, as she continues to report warts and beauty, will be vilified as being part of the “Faux” network of lies and distortion for reporting the warts.
Apparently, revealing the truth is “lies and distortion” to a liberal, sort of like water or sunlight to a vampire.
@Mully:
I hope she’s picked up by FNC. She would be a good fit with them.