CBS apologizes for 60 Minutes Benghazi report - will issue correction

[Ian_rd]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4239046/

In a humiliating retreat from a piece she had staunchly defended, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan admitted on Friday morning that she and the news magazine had made a "mistake" in their reporting of a controversial story about the Benghazi attacks. She apologized to viewers and said "60 Minutes" will issue a correction about the reliability of one of her key sources, security contractor Dylan Davies, on its next program.

[COLGATE4]

1. Too little. Too late. nt

[lostincalifornia]

2. Go to hell CBS. You used to be the foundation of journalism in this country, now you are a disgrace

to Cronkite, Wallace, Rather, and so many others who made your network great, that you have systematically torn down

Probably the biggest joke on CBS is that Faux turned it down because it didn't meet their standards

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Good. That's what a legitimate news organization should do. And CBS, too.

[RockaFowler]

4. Lara should be gone after this

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. sure.....after the horse is out of the barn.

[deminks]

6. I would rather hear that she is fired, and the management issue a "correction".

How can anyone trust the garbage from her mouth again?

I smell someone trying to create another "war hero".

[stevenleser]

7. I called them out on my show in my Hall of Shame section on Sunday and Monday

Good to see them owning up to it

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2013/11/04/fiery-all-star-panel-debate-on-obamacare-nsa-spying-more

Part on 60 mins starts at about 46:50

[Rex]

8. It's okay, I never relied on them for real news. They are now just another

'Foxnews-ish' entertainment channel. Nothing more or less. The day they fired Dan Rather for telling the truth, is the day they became Foxnews Lite.

[Myrina]

9. Chances are they knew before they aired it, but they aired it anyway.

So, sorry 60 Minutes - your apology (which will probably be 15 seconds long at the very end when the credits are rolling & nobody's actually watching) is deemed useless.

[bluestate10]

16. I agree with you. Nothing short of a 15 minute segment full retraction is

satisfactory. And at the end, it should be announced that Lara Logan has been indefinitely suspended from the show, or fired.

[IggleDoer]

10. Didn't the RW destroy Dan Rather for less?

Notice how the Benghazi lovers have complained about faulty journalism here?

Crickets!

[Capt. Obvious]

11. CBS the parent company of Simon & Schuster

Must kill them to issue this since they are pushing the guy's book.

They better issue this again on 60 Minutes.

[Tanuki]

12. CBS owns the company that just published Davies' book, so they had a big conflict of interest

in pushing the story. They should pull the book and refund the money to anyone who bought it.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/06/a-strange-inconsistency-in-morgan-jones-the-emb/196770

[Scuba]

13. That they didn't know it was all bullshit BEFORE airing the story is not credible.

[JoePhilly]

14. Lara should get the "Dan Rather treatment".

[bluestate10]

15. Lara Logan either purposely lied a couple weeks ago, or she is too dumb to be a

lead reporter. How can anyone put together the story she did without double and triple checking claims that were made? Also, the story had repeated voice overlays of rioting crowds as scene of raging fires were repeatedly shown. The story was cartoonish as best, a crass attempt at character assassination at the worst.

[Ian_rd]

17. Still blows my mind that Fox News dropped this joker and CBS wouldn't

If your journalism sucks more than Fox News, you have truly reached a low in integrity typically reserved for sensationalist blogs like Brietbart and Daily Caller.