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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewsweek: Was Lara Logan's Husband Involved In 60 Minutes' Botched Benghazi Story?
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/23/newsweek-was-lara-logans-husband-involved-in-60/197037(snip)
Citing the fact that "nobody at 60 Minutes has been fired or even publicly disciplined for its odd, inflammatory and dead-wrong" Benghazi report, Newsweek's Jeff Stein points to Logan's husband, Joseph Burkett, as "the most interesting figure in this mystery."
Stein explains that Burkett is "a former Army sergeant and onetime employee of a private intelligence outfit hired by the Pentagon to plant pro-U.S. stories in the Iraqi media in 2005." The Lincoln Group, Burkett's former employer, apparently specialized in producing videos and phony news clips that they would then feed to media outlets, "making them appear as originating from legitimate news organizations." From Newsweek:
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A 2006 New York Times article highlighted the vast scope of the multimillion-dollar "aggressive propaganda campaign" carried out by the Lincoln Group in Iraq, which reportedly included "paying Iraqi editors to run stories":
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Highlighting one of the flaws McClatchy identified in the CBS report -- the unsourced claim "pinning responsibility for the attack solely on al Qaeda" -- Stein ponders where such a claim could have come from, and points to Logan's husband as a possible source:
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Holy sh*t. The plot thickens.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)It seemed to die after the initial outrage yet there still seemed to be some "loose threads" that needed pulling.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Cha
(297,149 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)catholic????
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)This is looking a few levels more severe than that - at best
arthritisR_US
(7,287 posts)not a propaganda psy ops hit job
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Rather was made into a national pariah by the "mainstream" media and has been in "alternate" media since. If Logan gets fired, she'll probably just land a cushy job at Fox News.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)(apologies to all the smart blondies out there, who are legion and who don't work for Fux Snews)
arthritisR_US
(7,287 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)...whereas Rather has been conservatives' poster boy for "Liberal Media Bias" since the 60s.
They hated Rather's reports from Vietnam for undercutting support for the war, they thought he was overly-aggressive towards Nixon while letting liberal Democrats off light. In the 1980s Jesse Helms floated a plan to conservatives to buy shares in (then-independent) CBS -- "the most anti-Reagan of the networks" -- and the big pitch line was "Become Dan Rather's boss".
They wanted his head on a pike. He was past his prime, and he was an impediment to any attempt to siphon off Fox viewers. That made him an easy sacrifice once there was something big enough to provide an excuse.
arthritisR_US
(7,287 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)it was a dead on imitation and she even looked just like her.
marle35
(172 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)spot on
eggplant
(3,911 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)employment when it fired Dan Rather for less.
dchill
(38,471 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
classof56
(5,376 posts)Been a long time gone, but I'm still waiting for peace and justice. Stories like this make me seriously doubt it will ever find its way here.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Certainly can't hurt her prospects at Faux.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Owl
(3,641 posts)Let's not lose sight of that.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)it was deliberate and malicious.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)countryjake
(8,554 posts)Glad to see that some are unwilling to allow CBS and 60 Minutes let this deliberate propaganda fade away with no repercussions.