Sharyl Attkisson posts this and quotes a story from NY Magazine.  Here is the relevant portion (bold mine):

That October, Myers couldn’t get Williams to air a segment about how the White House knew as far back as 2010 that some people would lose their insurance policies under Obama­care. Frustrated, Myers posted the article on NBC’s website, where it immediately went viral. Williams relented and ran it the next night. “He didn’t want to put stories on the air that would be divisive,” a senior NBC journalist told me. According to a source, Myers wrote a series of scathing memos to then–NBC senior vice-president Antoine Sanfuentes documenting how Williams suppressed her stories.

I have been reading Attkisson’s stories for the past several months that document her struggles with CBS to attempt to get investigative reporting on the air.  The major networks all deny that there is some bias, and even today, some journalists will look you square in the eye and deny it when you know they have their fingers crossed behind their backs.

It has been my belief that the media has been overtly celebratory that the United States has its first black President.  It is also glaringly obvious that amongst the keepers of the fourth estate, his legacy should be protected at all costs, or at a minimum, that any failures be deemed the responsibility of a defiant Republican party.

As always, truth will ultimately prevail. If the media weren’t so complicit in protecting the administration based solely on the premise that he is the first black president, they may have been able to paint a very different, and more accurate picture. From the very beginning, Obama was protected from the same scrutiny that opponents, including those in Democrat party, would normally receive.

Yet, when President Obama’s background was investigated, from the Bill Ayer’s influence to Obama’s father’s anti-colonialism and communist influences, never surfaced, nor his lack of accomplishments – read none – of being a Chief Executive of, well, anything. The press, instead, dutifully carried the load of highlighting all the weaknesses and sordid pasts of his opponents, no matter how inconsequential.

Case in point: Herman Cain, the CEO of Godfather’s pizza and candidate for the GOP nomination in 2011, went through a serious vetting by the press that they managed to find a single allegation of a sexual harassment charge, and only when it was clear that independents favored Cain, who at the time, was leading in the primary, and polls showed he would have an edge on Obama.  The press did all they could to portray this as game changer for the campaign.  Eventually, Cain dropped out when it became clear, the past allegations for which there was little evidence, had affected his ability to focus on the message, along with some helpful tactical blunders.  A black GOP President, was not going to happen.

Indeed, in the 2008 election, the media had already started prepping Obama as close to royalty as the country had ever witnessed.  When John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, a firebrand conservative that had the success and credentials to appeal to the independents, the media fell in lockstep and did their best to assassinate her character, and succeeded with the help of McCain’s handlers.

In 2012, the Media went after Mitt Romney and published a hit piece on his antics, while he was in college.  Mother Jones’ David Corn had received a recording under very suspicious circumstances of a comment made by Romney during a private fundraiser.  It came at a time when Romney was closing the gap with Obama and the press needed something to stave off the push. When Candy Crowley of CNN intervened in the foreign policy debate and gave cover to Obama, the media went on a massive campaign to rehabilitate the obvious bias, proclaiming that Crowley was correct (when she obviously wasn’t) and brushed off the apparent conflict of interest.

And just when Romney got close, Hurricane Sandy managed to save the day when the President made sure the press, which had been limited in access for several weeks, was there to photograph him and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Romney’s close ally, going all out to show concern for NJ residents (when in fact, the cleanup effort still continues and the government has yet to fulfill most of its obligations.)

Fast forward to today, and you see an Obama that is carefully orchestrated in front of the public.  He gives interviews to comedy bloggers. He makes commercials.  During the 2012 campaign, he was on radio and asked to intervene on the Nicki Minaj/Beyonce dust up on American Idol.  His PR team is all about making Obama appear almost as a celebrity, and the media laps it up.  Nevermind his failures that have been documented that would have normally roasted a President weekly in the news papers.

Despite his education, he seems to be clueless on so many things.  Whenever a scandal is brought forward, it is quickly dismissed.  When an action is brought about under the guise of Congressional inaction, he receives accolades in the media and his opponents responses are portrayed as political hurt feelings.   When Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were both killed, Obama inserted himself into the process.  Both times, the DOJ went after the killers, and each time, no charges were pressed.

When Ferguson exploded, the President made sure Holder spent a good deal of time in front of the cameras, ensuring the public saw a concerned black President in support of his most ardent, if not most sacrificed, constituency.  And yet, the real problems of the black community continue to fester and grow, while trying to defend radical Islam and granting amnesty to illegals; the same group of people that, by the way the program works, could give illegals tens of thousands of dollars, something the black community would more desperately need.

And anytime a Republican makes mention of issues regarding his actions, the media immediately checks to see if any past President’s or other GOP leaders had done similar actions, most recently, illegal immigration, as if that somehow gives Obama a pass.  In fact, the idea that a previous President may have done anything demonstrates complete hypocrisy because, the media refuses to address issues, trying to quell “divisiveness”, even if the press at the time, had a different view.

All this boils down to is what I call the “reverse racism” of the media.  The media defends the President by making sure that his legacy as the first black President will not go down in disaster, despite the fact that he was never fully qualified at running anything.   While the press laments the lack of higher education of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Obama has no similar accolades of accomplishment past his Ivy League education.

Walker receives additional disdain for his success in removing the Union grip on the state.  His record on improving the state economy, reducing unemployment and the deficit in his state’s budget would mean more positive news, and yet, its the exact opposite.  Walker is seen as a threat to the President’s agenda, and so the media does it duty to attack Walker, often parroting the disdain of the unions and Democrats.

Compare Walker’s work to Obama’s signature achievements:  ACA, which teeters on the brink of judicial reversal, as well as low public approval ratings because the President’s own words turned out to be untrue; the middle east is in chaos due to ISIL and his admonitions to Christianity as well as his desire to remove the US from the region; the economy which continues a shaky and uninspiring recovery; immigration which, until the seventh year of his presidency still falls well short of his goal; and finally, the un-patriotic (his words) ballooning of the Federal Debt.

Obama’s scandals, on the other hand, have been downplayed as GOP anger, such as Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, Holder’s resistance to Congressional oversight in relations to the IRS and Fast and Furious, Green Energy bankruptcies, Gruber’s admission of malfeasance in getting the ACA passed; Sebellius violations of the Hatch Act (Campaigning for Obama while in her role of HHS and expenses covered by the US government); the VA scandal; and now, the Hillary email scandal.  In all these cases, the media has either downplayed, ignored, or spent time repeating administration talking points.  Walker on the other hand, gets no praise for helping his constituents.

The media’s attempt to not be “divisive” and to report favorably for Obama has harmed the general public, and they have performed a disservice.  Their job is not keep the public happy; it is to protect the people from an abusive government, to call into question its motives, and to ensure the public interest is at the forefront.  The citizen’s rights to be free from an oppressive government, no matter how much they like the guy in charge, supercede all other considerations.

President Bush had poll numbers that were in the low 40’s and high 30’s.  Almost every week, each media outlet produced a story on Bush’s low ratings especially during his second term.  President Obama’s ratings have not been above 50% for almost 2 years, and the media says nothing.  And they won’t.  They don’t want to be divisive because of the first black American President and he needs to have a legacy of success.  Yet, they wonder why Fox News is the most trustworthy news source.