over her botched 60 minutes report on benghazi which relied on a source who falsely claimed to have been at the scene of the attack. now as first disclosed by hollywood reporter s marisa guthrie, logue sn back at work and will be appearing on cbs programs and eventually 60 minutes. the network had left the war correspondent in limbo for too long. she ll now get a crack at rebuilding her career. cheryl atkinson also made headlines not long ago when she quit cbs news telling me in a mediabuzz interview that the network had simply stopped running her investigative pieces on benghazi and other subjects. now atkinon is taking some heat from the left for her new role as contributor to the daily signal, a website that says it wants fair reporting and is part of the conservative heritage foundation. he. well, anthony bourdain, the cnn food and travel guy, says he doesn t like preaching to the converted, and in a podcast on the nerdist website he put msnbc on the menu. you know, msn
let s just focus on what this is. it s an american p.o.w., who was there for five years. we had a chance to bring him home and we brought him home. there s no larger picture here. this is not part of a strategy to totally reconvert the okay. but you guys are talking politics and i need to come back to the media. you in the previous bloc said the coverage was shameful. but you seem to be saying that because we haven t had a chance to hear, understandably so, from bergdahl. but is there anything that s been reported there have been some rhetorical excesses, sure. that has been inaccurate and therefore unfair in your view? i think two things. one, again, calling him a deserter i believe is unfair. and not backed up by the facts. number two, cnn reported at least lauren referenced this earlier. cnn, not fox, cnn, at least six people died searching for sergeant bergdahl. as if it were a factor. as if it were a fact. the pentagon researched, that said no connection. the new yo
mind. but is that a fair charge when i would argue that lots of news organizations that would not be described as conservative organizations, new york times, cnn among them, have been going out and finding out information about the soldiers you mentioned and other sources about bergdahl s combat. jake tapper on cnn said better men gave their lives looking for bergdahl. that s jake tapper who wrote a book about afghanistan. if you read tapper s book, every unit in afghanistan, it s a crazy war and they re alone by themselves, of course they can t keep track of every person if that person chooses to voluntarily desert. to my knowledge there s only been one deserter coming out of afghanistan, that s bergdahl. everybody else manages to deal with the same situations and stay loyal. we can t all agree, right? i believe overall with some exceptions the media s response to this story has been shameful because they took a narrative, you just used the word, deserter, the word you hear most
over her botched 60 minutes report on benghazi which relied on a source who falsely claimed to have been at the scene of the attack. now as first disclosed by hollywood reporter s marisa guthrie, logue sn back at work and will be appearing on cbs programs and eventually 60 minutes. the network had left the war correspondent in limbo for too long. she ll now get a crack at rebuilding her career. cheryl atkinson also made headlines not long ago when she quit cbs news telling me in a mediabuzz interview that the network had simply stopped running her investigative pieces on benghazi and other subjects. now atkinon is taking some heat from the left for her new role as contributor to the daily signal, a website that says it wants fair reporting and is part of the conservative heritage foundation. he. well, anthony bourdain, the cnn food and travel guy, says he doesn t like preaching to the converted, and in a podcast on the nerdist website he put msnbc on the menu. you know, msn
let s just focus on what this is. it s an american p.o.w., who was there for five years. we had a chance to bring him home and we brought him home. there s no larger picture here. this is not part of a strategy to totally reconvert the okay. but you guys are talking politics and i need to come back to the media. you in the previous bloc said the coverage was shameful. but you seem to be saying that because we haven t had a chance to hear, understandably so, from bergdahl. but is there anything that s been reported there have been some rhetorical excesses, sure. that has been inaccurate and therefore unfair in your view? i think two things. one, again, calling him a deserter i believe is unfair. and not backed up by the facts. number two, cnn reported at least lauren referenced this earlier. cnn, not fox, cnn, at least six people died searching for sergeant bergdahl. as if it were a factor. as if it were a fact. the pentagon researched, that said no connection. the new yo