CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson Also Presented Invented Benghazi Emails As Authentic

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CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson Also Presented Invented Benghazi Emails As Authentic

Because his reporting elevated the Benghazi talking points story to the top of the news cycle, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl has taken a lot of heat, from media watchdogs Media Matters and in these pages, for explicitly claiming that he had obtained emails that he had never actually seen. However, CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson also presented a set of email “summaries” as authentic emails, but stopped short of explicitly claiming that she had “obtained,” “reviewed,” or ha otherwise actually seen the real emails, emails which reveal that the “summaries” provided to her by Republicans contained invented quotes and significant omissions.

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Full article here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/cbs-news-sharyl-attkisson-also-presented-invented-benghazi-emails-as-authentic/

[napkinz]

1. Time for both ABC and CBS to focus on the real scandal ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022858409

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022857236

[Wellstone ruled]

2. But,but,they might have misspoke!!!

Yah,right,this is the nature of our Main Stream News. Got the hair and the fashion duds and got the 7 figure contract. ....who me,I'am a D.C.insider,I'am above reproach.

Must have been some threat by a big ad buyer. Manufactured False Equivalency at it's finest.