CBS News Pulls Troubled Benghazi Report As New Reports Eat Away At Source's Credibility

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/07/cbs-news-pulls-troubled-benghazi-report-as-new/196796

CBS News pulled a crumbling 60 Minutes report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks from its website and YouTube channel amid new information from The New York Times that corroborates claims that CBS' star witness provided conflicting accounts about what he witnessed the night of the attack. Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman and 60 Minutes executive producer, hinted that a correction may be forthcoming.

The network was heavily criticized by veteran journalists and media critics after The Washington Post reported that Morgan Jones, the eyewitness on whom 60 Minutes based its report, had given CBS a story of the attacks that was contradicted by what he told the security contractor he worked for at the time.

On November 7, it was revealed by the Times that the account of the attacks that Jones, whose real name is Dylan Davies, gave to the FBI did not match what he told CBS News' Lara Logan.

According to the Times, "The information (Davies) provided in an F.B.I. interview was described Thursday by two senior government officials as completely consistent with an incident report by the Blue Mountain security business, which had been hired to protect United States interests in Benghazi." The Times reported:

60 Minutes reviewing account of Morgan Jones on Benghazi
60 Minutes has learned of new information that undercuts the account told to us by Morgan Jones of his actions on the night of the attack on the Benghazi compound.

We are currently looking into this serious matter to determine if he misled us, and if so, we will make a correction.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57611428/60-minutes-reviewing-account-of-morgan-jones-on-benghazi/

Accounts Differ to F.B.I. and CBS on Benghazi
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/business/media/accounts-differ-to-fbi-and-cbs-on-benghazi.html?_r=1&

[Dawson Leery]

1. CBS lies!

And there are 3000 missing votes in Democratic Fairfax county VA.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251337519

Mark Herring is the rightful winner.

[LisaLynne]

2. But they got the false account out there ...

and who is going to care if they are forced to correct it? That's what makes me frustrated.

[Warpy]

3. Absolutely, it's one of those "there's no such thing as bad publicity" problems

This time it wasn't a misbehaving movie star, it was propaganda the far right lunatics wanted on broadcast news, any broadcast news.

Vicious and dangerous lies need to be outed everywhere and by everyone. Anyone who passed this story and deemed it fit for broadcast should be fired, period. Send them to Pox, they always lie anyway.

They need to issue a retraction daily for 2 weeks, 60 Minutes included, so the retraction will get out there. It would be really nice if the other 2 broadcast news networks played it as "CBS with egg all over its face" as one of their news stories, too.

[lpbk2713]

4. It took this long and how many people telling them they screwed up.

Damn shame. I remember when 60 Minutes was the gold standard of investigative journalism. Look at them now, they are Faux Snooze Light. Checking your facts and your sources is from Journalism 101 for crisakes. They have removed themselves from my regularly watched programs list.

[freshwest]

5. +100