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Archive for the ‘Sharyl Attkisson’ Category

CBS Pulls Attkisson From CPAC Award Event

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Sharyl Attkisson, CBS journalist best known here for her bias towards those promoting autism as a vaccine injury, was slated to accept an award Thursday from Accuracy In Media (AIM). This was discussed on Left Brain/Right Brain recently. Media Matters is reporting CBS Pulls Attkisson From CPAC Award Event. CBS still accepted the award, though: [...]

Sharyl Attkisson to receive media award

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Sharyl Attkisson has been one of the less reliable members of the media when it comes to the autism/vaccine discussion. She promotes the purported link, defended Andrew Wakefield and gave David Kirby (of Evidence of Harm fame) a platform to promote his views. For example. Recall a few years back when the Hornig study (Lack [...]

Sharyl Attkisson blogs the Hannah Poling settlement

Friday, September 10th, 2010

I had forgotten Sharyl Attkisson. She is a reporter for CBS news who has covered vaccines in the past, but has been silent on the issue for the past year or more. Her recent piece shows exactly the sort of reporting that frustrated me in the past: Family to Receive $1.5M in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court [...]

Sharyl Attkisson interviews David Kirby…and oh is it bad

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Have a look for yourself: Watch CBS News Videos Online David Kirby, interviewed by Sharyl Attkisson. Talk about faux-news. For those luckily unfamiliar with Ms. Attkisson, here are some of the pieces done on this blog about her. Ms. Attkisson has a history of interviewing other members of the press and not being critical at [...]

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