[From interview]
SA: It’s sort of a long story, but I guess the short version is there was really nothing meaningful left for me to do. I consider my specialty to be original investigative reporting which was long valued at CBS News. But I the past couple of years for me and other reporters in the media it’s been a very hard sell.
[. . .]
SA: I think there’s a complex set of factors including maybe one of the biggest factors — the industry that has been set up in Washington, DC around a well-financed campaign involving public relations by special interests, political interests, corporate interests who have learned how to scare us off from meaningful stories. By pushback before the stories air, partnering with surrogates and bloggers, and making social media astroturf efforts afterwards, and just making it so difficult and uncomfortable afterwards that really we’d just rather avoid those kinds of stories.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/11/08/sharyl-attkisson-joins-kmoxs-mark-reardon-to-discuss-controversial-new-book/
Sharyl Attkisson Joins KMOX’s Mark Reardon To Discuss Controversial New Book
November 8, 2014 7:07 AM
CBS News St. Louis MO
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