Sharyl Attkisson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was all a big bait.
I never understood.
One of my producers, listen, I even found a member of Congress had sent letters out under, or were named out under her name, advocating for this group, telling students you should go.
And I learned and exposed that they had forged her name.
And I even got her on camera saying so, which she didn't originally want to do.
It was a great story.
Oh, my gosh.
It was never explained to me.
We call it, my producer and I at the time, the death by a thousand cuts.
He would want to change this or want to change that.
Well, let's not mention the death.
Let's not do this.
Rewrite it again.
And you started to understand.
They would never say there was anything wrong with the story.
Quite the opposite.
They would say, this is a brilliant story.
This is a great story.
We're going to save it for next week.
Just do this, do that.