A Seattle viewer wrote a post for the local paper that blasted Sinclair and their right wing approach. 

The viewer also took Sinclair's Sharyl Attkisson to task for her role with the company. 

Attkisson fired back with this: 

A viewer on the west coast forwarded to me a blog you wrote somewhere attacking my program full measure (and me) as “right wing.”  It’s hard to know where to begin with somebody who gets their information from one-sided talking point sources and doesn’t seek facts. 

For example, if you think doing a story on the cost [o]f regulations is somehow inherently right wing rather than simply addressing an interesting topic on the minds of many Americans, then it could be that you are the one with the bias. 

If you think interviewing someone from heritage foundation makes me or a story “conservative” then I suppose my many stories interviewing only democrats or interviewing people from progressive groups like public citizen makes me liberal but—wait a minute! That doesn’t fit your knee jerk theory. 

The last Emmy award I received before I quit CBS was for a series that included an undercover investigation of republican freshman fundraising. In your world that would be “one-sided” and make me a liberal. But wait a minute—that doesn’t fit your theory!

I received an Emmy for investigating the bait and switch of TARP under President Bush. I got used to being called a liberal. But wait! That doesn’t fit your theory!

The truth is I always cover and will continue to cover interesting topics from various views. I especially like to cover topics that powerful interests don’t want covered. 

For someone like you, this may make you upset from time to time. You will likely find the kind of agenda-drive news you’re looking for on most other national programs; I’m proud to say you won’t find it on mine. 

Can you please provide me contact information for the editors where your blog appeared so that I may respond accordingly? 

Thank you,
Sharyl Attkisson