I just don't care what people think. I'm just trying to do what I think is right. — Sharyl Attkisson Care Copy Share Image
Sometimes I rub people the wrong way, although I'm very polite. — Sharyl Attkisson People Copy Share Image
I started working as a journalist under Bush, then Clinton, then Bush, then Obama. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“We plaster our news reports with political pundits not offering independent opinions but serving their masters.” — Sharyl Attkisson Journalism Copy Share Image
There's nothing like getting caught flat-footed in an emergency to convince us to better prepare for the next one. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Obviously, if I cared about what people said about my reporting, I wouldn't be a good journalist. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
There's a tendency in the news media, on the part of some managers, to censor or block stories that don't fall in… — Sharyl Attkisson Journalism Copy Share Image
“We're living amid an artificial reality, persuaded to believe it's real by astroturf engineered to look like grassroots.” — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
I gave up a long time ago thinking that people had to like or agree with what I was doing. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
News organizations would best serve the public by sticking to the facts and the news. Speculation should be minimized. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
I really am one of those people who are mixed on many issues and can see many legitimate sides. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Many Americans are eagerly watching the devolution of traditional news with relish because they agree with the prevailing narratives, whether based on… — Sharyl Attkisson Facts Copy Share Image
I feel pretty safe in saying that most Americans can't tell you off the top of their head who the Kurds are… — Sharyl Attkisson Alone Copy Share Image
A wiretap allows government agents to collect, listen to, read, rifle through and store emails, snail mail, phone calls, text messages, photographs,… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Yes, there's still much good journalism to be found, if you know where to look. Yet, ask reporters who've been around a… — Sharyl Attkisson Being Copy Share Image
Following sporadic reports of intelligence officials misleading Congress about surveilling U.S. citizens - even spying on journalists and political figures and their… — Sharyl Attkisson Action Copy Share Image
My prediction for the 2016 race was based on a variety of observational and anecdotal evidence. I listened to Democrats, Republicans and… — Sharyl Attkisson Apolitical Copy Share Image
In fact, by Democrats pursuing the strategy of attacking everything President Trump does as the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it stuff, their criticism has just become white… — Sharyl Attkisson Criticism Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and… — Sharyl Attkisson Court Copy Share Image
“The smear artist reveals himself by his disparate treatment of people and situations. He drapes himself in a superhero cape, claiming to… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“All of this evokes the dicta of successful historic propagandists described earlier. From Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: >"Ridicule is man's most potent… — Sharyl Attkisson Control Copy Share Image
The bottom line is: Polls can be provocative, informative, fun or maddening. But as we move into 2020, it's important to be… — Sharyl Attkisson Bottom line Copy Share Image
“The answer to what defines a smear often lies in the motivation behind, and scale of, the response.” — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope. — Sharyl Attkisson Advocacy Copy Share Image
I'm not a liberal or conservative journalist, I'm saying conservative-owned media corporations seem to be treated differently. — Sharyl Attkisson Corporations Copy Share Image
I'm not a professional political analyst, so my political analysis is worth about what you pay for it. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
The nature of the government's surveillance on me and my family is forensically proven and not subject to legitimate question. — Sharyl Attkisson Family Copy Share Image
Many news organizations have come to resemble the fact-starved blogs they once took pains to remain separate from. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
One death is too many - and with careful management and a lot of luck, the coronavirus sweeping the globe will be… — Sharyl Attkisson Death Copy Share Image
The rules seem rigged to protect government lawlessness, and the playing field is uneven. — Sharyl Attkisson Government Copy Share Image
I think very few of us have a thick bold line on every given topic that falls neatly into the box of… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
But the government spying on me was not done under the authority of a court warrant. That's why my case is even… — Sharyl Attkisson Authority Copy Share Image
Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Much like CBS and CNN are run by liberal billionaires, Sinclair is run by a rich conservative, so there are natural questions… — Sharyl Attkisson Conservative Copy Share Image
Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren't tolerated in journalism schools. When their… — Sharyl Attkisson Failure Copy Share Image
If you've read my New York Times bestseller 'Stonewalled', you know that I'm a fan of an intellectual exercise I call the… — Sharyl Attkisson Fitness Copy Share Image
Each political party in America contains people with a hodgepodge of beliefs. Their given positions on a topic may shift slightly -… — Sharyl Attkisson America Copy Share Image
