Lara Logan's Bogus "Correction"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lara-logan-s-bogus-correction

JOSH MARSHALL – NOVEMBER 10, 2013, 10:11 PM EST4787

"I just watched the 60 Minutes "correction"/apology tonight and thought was pretty amazing for its brevity, lack of substance and general obfuscation. If you didn't watch 60 Minutes tonight, it won't take long. It only lasted 90s or so. And you can see it here.

In a narrow sense, Lara Logan did say she was "sorry." But the entire 90 seconds was aimed at obfuscating what happened.

Logan said 60 had found out Thursday that they had been "misled and it was a mistake to include him in our report."

Include him in their report? He was the report. And even in conceding that her team had been "misled", Logan tiptoed around the real news, which is that it seems clear that Davies' entire story was a fabrication. He wasn't there. So none of the stuff he did could have happened and he cannot have witnessed any of what he claimed to describe."

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much much more...and very damning of CBS and all involved

[rdharma]

1. Lara Logan knew the entire report was (as they say in SA) ......."bull dust".

Really a shame. She was a very good journalist early on.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. The fact that this person is still employed by CBS is absolutely inexplicable

Fire her immediately.

[MADem]

9. +1 nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

27. ^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^

[Aerows]

3. This is so much worse than Dan Rather

And he was actually right.

What the hell is up with journalism these days?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. They went from insulting the intelligence to being insolent.

[WinstonSmith4740]

31. Been going on for 30 years now...

What the hell is up with journalism these days?

I remember when conservatives started whining openly about the "liberal" media not covering stories from a conservative viewpoint...nobody bothered pointing out then that the news is not supposed to cover stories from either side of the aisle. During either late Reagan or early Bush the Elder's administration they managed to get the Fairness Doctrine eliminated...it's been downhill since then. First, the major outlets decided to be the National Enquirer (think of all the bullshit they put Clinton through over things that should have been kept personal), and now they've decided to follow to Faux Noise model and just put shit on the air.

[Gary 50]

32. Worse than Dan Rather..

The difference is there is no organized left wing that CBS is afraid of.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, NRaleighLiberal.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Another wanna be Faux Nooz lite

?

[delrem]

6. It isn't just Lara Logan, it's her team, and her employer.

People can correct the situation by refusing to watch CBS news.

[Firebrand Gary]

7. That was pathetic.

In my mind I was hoping that they were going to redeem themselves by using a full episode to clear up the entire misinformation campaign. I was dreaming, what a pathetic apology that was not only half assed but did not assume accountability, they pushed the blame. Fucking jokesters!

[NBachers]

8. 60 Minutes and Lara Logan will never have credibility, ever again.

Contact 60 Minutes: [e-mail]

Here's my email to 60 Minutes:

Instead of soul searching, you tried to engage in save ass.

You broadcast blatant, hit piece lies to disgrace President Obama and pimp your phony book.

You compounded the offense with a pathetic, piss-thin pseudo apology; more lies; and refusal to admit what you'd done. You weren't "misled." You collaborated with Dylan Davies to put out slanted propaganda lies and snuggle up to the teabaggers.

Send Logan over to Breitbart or Fox, where she belongs.

Throw David Rhodes back on to the Fox News dung heap he crawled out from.

When can we expect to find Jerome Corsi or Joe the Plumber as 60 Minutes producers?

Put 60 Minutes out of it's misery. The gravy train is empty.

How come Dan Rather gets fired, but Logan stays?


NBachers
San Francisco, California

[tavernier]

23. Just right.

Hope they read it!

[Tarheel_Dem]

28. Bookmarking this thread for the info contained in your post.

[B Calm]

11. I refuse to watch 60 minutes, they have lost all

credibility!

[Berlum]

12. "We just parroted some right-wing Republicon claptrap. So sorry. Smirk." - CBS, Inc. (R)

"tee hee. smirk. sneer." - Mary Matalin (R - Propaganda Pimpstress)

[hue]

13. CBS & Logan were prostituting themselves for RW $$. They have no credibility, deserve no viewers.

[Botany]

14. This was a planned right wing hit piece

Critics of the Benghazi report have accused Ms. Logan and her producers of having a
conservative bias; as evidence, some have pointed to an Oct. 2012 speech by Ms. Logan
that called in passionate terms for American revenge after the Benghazi attack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/business/media/60-minutes-airs-apology-on-benghazi.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

[spanone]

15. pathetic...and at the END of the show.

[greatlaurel]

16. Watched it to see what they had to say for themselves

How far the mighty have fallen. We are done with CBS. They have disgraced themselves by not firing Logan and her team immediately. She needs to be deported back to South Africa, but I am sure they do not want her there, either. What a fascist tool.

[Liberal_Dog]

17. K & R

Hard to believe that CBS has lowered themselves to this extent.

[Stainless]

18. Never Forget that the MSM

and the whores who work for them are owned by the same Corporations who want to keep their workers enslaved until they are no longer of any use to them. They then want those useless workers to go away and die.

[flpoljunkie]

19. Democracy Now today revealed more on Lara Logan's seeming lack of objectivity

"60 Minutes" Retracts Benghazi Story; Watchdog Urges Independent Review

CBS News has retracted a controversial story on the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic site in Benghazi, Libya. In a segment for "60 Minutes" that aired last month, security contractor Dylan Davies offered what he called an eyewitness account of the militant raid that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, on September 11, 2012. Davies claimed he rushed to the scene and clubbed a militant attacker with the butt of his rifle. He also said he visited Ambassador Christopher Stevens in the hospital. His comments fueled right-wing theories surrounding a lackluster U.S. military response. But Davies’ own statements to both the FBI and the firm he worked for, Blue Mountain, undermined his claims. Davies had in fact told investigators he spent most of the night of the attack in his villa. CBS failed to vet Davies’ comments for accuracy despite working on the story for one year. After initially standing by the story, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan apologized to viewers.

Lara Logan: "On Thursday night, when we discovered the account he gave the FBI was different than what he told us, we realized we had been misled, and it was a mistake to include him in our report. For that, we are very sorry. The most important thing to every person at '60 Minutes' is the truth. And the truth is we made a mistake."

Davies was on "60 Minutes" to promote his new book, which is published by Simon & Schuster, itself owned by CBS’s parent company, Viacom. The book has now been pulled from shelves. In an interview, the chair of CBS News, Jeff Fager, called the report "as big a mistake as there has been" in 60 Minutes’ five decades on the air. The watchdog group Media Matters is calling on CBS to form an independent panel to investigate the Benghazi report as it did with a story about President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. The Bush report led to the ouster of CBS anchor Dan Rather and several other journalists. The reporter on the Benghazi story, Lara Logan, has previously advocated a forceful response to the Libya attack. In a speech last year, Logan said the United States should send in its military forces to "exact revenge."

Lara Logan: "When I look at what’s happening in Libya, it’s a big song and dance about whether this was a terrorist attack or a protest. And you just want to scream, 'For God's sake, are you kidding me?’ The last time we were attacked like this was the U.S.S. Cole, which was a prelude to the 1998 embassy bombings, which was a prelude to 9/11. And you’re sending in FBI to investigate. I hope to God that you’re sending in your best clandestine warriors who are going to exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil, that its ambassadors will not be murdered, and the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it."

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/11/headlines

[JHB]

21. Y'know, the Cole was bombed AFTER the embassies...

The USS cole was bombed on October 12, 2000, which in most places comes after 1998.

And let's not forger: the RWers (and Lara) love to blame Bill Clinton for not retaliating, but the investigation of just who to retaliate against wasn't finished until 19 January, 2001, the day before Dubya's inauguration.

I'm trying to remember what W did about that, but I come up with nothing. Oh, wait, that's what he did. Nothing.

[bluestate10]

20. 60 Minutes turned into a joke several years ago when Bradley died. I seriously doubt that

a person like Rather or Bradley, true journalists, would tolerate the shit that a poser like Logan is putting up. CBS must fire her ass and all of her crew. I am sure Logan will immediately get a job on a couch at Fox News. A loser with long blond hair, perfect for Fox News.

[Snake Plissken]

22. She claimed they spent a year on that story

How can so many people be so stupid for so long?

I would check their offices for high concentrations of lead.

[ctsnowman]

24. One of the biggest lies

is on the cover of the book. He called it a siege. It was an attack not a siege and words matter. The word siege implies it was a long drawn out affair in which we had time to respond. None of that is an accident. I don't buy the "apology" for a second. The echo chambers of the right will never hear the correction.

[spanone]

25. her breathy 'apology' was cold and insincere.

plus, they didn't include the liar in the story. the liar was the story.

shameless

[Jefferson23]

26. Sorry, but your sorry is still full of shit. n/t

[2banon]

29. I expected to hear a segment on this topic with NPR's "On the Media"

last night.. but unless I dozed off (possible) in the middle of their broadcast and missed it, I never heard a word about it on that show.. nor did I hear a mention given to this on All Things Considered or Morning Edition. Unbelievable.

[davidpdx]

30. Bogus and half-ass

CBS----->

[peasant one]

33. obfuscation is correct

I do not watch TV (no reception) so I get my news from DU only-I used to love 60 minutes though. I read about the initial program and saw the "correction" --how sad that one of my favorite programs has chosen this path. I wonder if they know that many get their news elsewhere and are appealing to an ever shrinking audience.

[arely staircase]

34. hw was the fucking story

Their story was a lie.