Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS

[Pete]

Echoes of Edward R. Murrow in Sharyl Attkisson's departure from CBS News

http://www.americanthinker.com/asset...cbs_news_.html

"CBS News has lost its strongest claim to be a fair and non-partisan news source with the departure of Sharyl Attkisson from the network. The award-winning reporter has been squeezed-out because of her reporting on investigative themes inconvenient to the Obama administration, including Fast and Furious and the Benghazi Scandal – two incidents in which United States government officials lost their lives. In 2013, her total air time on the CBS Evening News was a mere 53 minutes, a third of her air time prior to the Obama administration, when she reported on scandals involving Republicans. In the words of network news analyst Andrew Tyndall, “She was obviously being sidelined.”

What makes Attkisson’s departure a scandal, however, is an obvious conflict of interest at CBS News that directly impacted Attkisson’s access to air time. John Nolte of Breitbart News reported yesterday....."

The rest of the article makes for interesting reading.

[Badger52]

Good read, thanks for that.

[Penn]

Sheila Jackson-Lee, a living, breathing indictment of the public school system.

But, there is a counter argument presented by Johnathan Kozel in his book "The Shame of a Nation", which examines the structural racism in public education.

Kozel position is the American educational system has reverted to its pre-1954 past condition of separate, but equal standards that were enshrined in Ferguson v. Plessy, the SC held that position until the landmark decision in Brown v Board of Education.

Although Kozel indictment of the American education system is racist, he examines the issue in tis totality, as a social system failure, inclusive of parenting, home, socio-economic conditions, etc., its an interesting read regardless of your political POV.