Weaponsman: Attkisson’s Stonewalled: a Disappointment

This is a long review, but well worth the read.  Weaponsman does his usual excellent job.   Here is the start:

Right now, a common Washington trope is playing out on Metro platforms and in Georgetown salons: people are discussing a book they haven’t read, in this case Sharyl Attkisson’s Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment In Obama’s Washington. 
 
Unlike the bulk of the people discussing it inside the beltway, including, apparently, some of the people writing about it (like Politico’s partisan hack Hadas Gold), we’ve actually read the thing. We pre-ordered the Kindle edition so that we could review it here. And we read it with great anticipation.

That anticipation didn’t really pan out; ultimately, we were disappointed by the book. Attkisson is a remarkable reporter: she doesn’t just persevere, she perseverates, and this makes her a lightning rod in ways that she herself doesn’t seem to understand. Her topics tend to be highly political ones: she was an early adopter of the ascientific idea that vaccines cause autism, an idea who scientific repudiation has come and gone, leaving her still perseverating in the original, discredited, theory.

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