The Patriot Post® · Attkisson on 'Chilling Effect'

CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson spoke with Fox News to offer more insight on the reasons for leaving the network – reasons which include Team Obama’s “chilling effect.” Attkisson explains: “The bait-and-switch of TARP, the bank bailout program – all of those stories under Bush were met with a good reception [by CBS officials]. There were different managers as well, but no one accused me of being a mouthpiece for the liberals at that time. … Now there’ve 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. But it is particularly aggressive under the Obama administration and I think it’s a campaign that’s very well organized, that’s designed to have sort of a chilling effect and to some degree has been somewhat successful in getting broadcast producers who don’t really want to deal with the headache of it – why put on these controversial stories that we’re 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?”