CBS must explain-Logan's Benghazi source & CBS-owned partisan bk publisher (Editor=Mary Matalin)

[kpete]

CBSNews must explain relationship bet Logan's Benghazi source & CBS-owned partisan book publisher whose editor-in-chief is Mary Matalin

Frank Rich ‏@frankrichny 17h
.@CBSNews in NYT doesn't explain how Logan spent a year reporting a hoax, or why 60 Mins partnered w/ GOP publisher. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/business/media/cbs-correspondent-apologizes-for-report-on-benghazi-attack.html?hp …

Frank Rich ‏@frankrichny 8 Nov
A clue to Lara Logan's motive: Her speech a year ago calling for retribution for Ambassador Chris Stevens http://www.suntimes.com/news/washington/15581902-452/reporter-lara-logan-brings-ominous-news-from-middle-east.html …

Frank Rich ‏@frankrichny 8 Nov
.@ten24get @andrewrgoldman @CBSNews Biggest conflict is that Logan's source's publisher also publishes Rove & birther/Swift Boater Corsi

Frank Rich ‏@frankrichny 8 Nov
.@andrewrgoldman @CBSNews What requires investigation: On 60
Mins, Logan hid these facts: publisher owned by CBS and is a GOP outlet

Frank Rich ‏@frankrichny 8 Nov
.@CBSNews must explain relationship bet Logan's Benghazi source & CBS-owned partisan book publisher whose editor-in-chief is Mary Matalin

Frank Rich ‏@frankrichny 8 Nov
How cld Lara Logan be "misled" (her word) for the full year she told the Times she reported on the story? http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/business/media/cbs-news-defends-its-60-minutes-benghazi-report.html?from=business.media …

Frank Rich ‏@frankrichny 8 Nov
Logan claimed to spend a yr on this hoax & that leaving out source's link to Corsi-Rove publisher mere "oversight" http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/business/media/cbs-news-defends-its-60-minutes-benghazi-report.html?from=business.media …

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Logan even called for retribution for the recent terrorist killings of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other officials. The event is a harbinger of our vulnerability, she said. Logan hopes that America will “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 that the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/washington/15581902-452/reporter-lara-logan-brings-ominous-news-from-middle-east.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. this absolutely reeks. should be the end of Logan (on CBS...she will wind up on Fox, I bet)

[JHB]

2. Impossible! I have been loudly assured for decades that 60 Minutes is...

...premier example of "liberal media bias"!

Those who assure me of this -- usually at volume -- are never wrong. Just ask them.

[Enthusiast]

24. Zactly...........nt

[closeupready]

3. During the Bush years, we here on DU would mock the journalists

at Presidential briefings and press conference, at the transparent way the press corps would flatter and fawn to GWB, throwing softball after softball, laughing at his unfunny jokes, etc.

Logan's ideas about what it means to be a journalist were probably formed partially during those years, in meeting with others in the press corps, who would parrot the notion that, 'you have to do anything for access/to get the story'.

In that light, I suppose the sad state of Logan's reputation is kind of a mirror reflecting the state of American journalism, since what she did, does and will likely continue doing is simply journalistic standard-operating-procedure in the US. She will suffer no penalties, she will continue to cover stories for 60 Minutes, and CBS will move on.

[indepat]

4. CBS News is forever in the turlet imo: because their credibility is now zero

[mercymechap]

5. Was this the break the Republicans have been

dreaming of for their Benghazi vendetta, or was this carefully orchestrated? CBS may retract the story but some damage has already been done....

[starroute]

6. Matalin and Threshold Editions

A Politico story from 2009:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25175.html

Mary Matalin’s official title at Threshold Editions is editor-in-chief, but the Republican strategist prefers several others: conservative, book-lover, fixer.

It’s that last role where Matalin’s extensive network comes into play for Simon & Schuster’s 4-year-old conservative imprint, now slated to publish memoirs by both former Vice President Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Matalin’s connections also played a part in a publishing-industry coup earlier this month, as Threshold simultaneously held the top spots on The New York Times best-seller list for hardcover and paperback nonfiction — Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny” and Glenn Beck’s “Common Sense,” respectively. . . .

After the publication of Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” last August, liberal watchdog organization Media Matters described the book in a study as “unfit for publication” — a play off the author’s 2004 book, “Unfit for Command,” which riled Democrats and pushed the phrase “swift-boating” into the lexicon.

“What the hell is Mary Matalin doing running a publishing imprint in the first place?” asked Slate’s Timothy Noah, following the Media Matters report. “She is a professional propagandist, a political operative who learned her craft at the feet not of Maxwell Perkins but of Lee Atwater.”

[pacalo]

10. "Fixer" just about covers it.

Thanks for the info, starroute.

[karynnj]

13. Note even here, there is RW bias

Corsi's 2004 book "riled Democrats"? How about it smeared the Democratic nominee by distorting his sacrifice and honorable service record as a 25 year old? His reward for risking his very privileged life for his country was that he was smeared for being a real hero - all because the GOP knew that was something that gave him credibility.

[grasswire]

7. Mary Matalin = Dick Cheney

Pure evil.

[Auntie Bush]

15. She's Cheney in drag.

But she doesn't have his heart.

[dchill]

23. No, but he may end up having hers.

[Enthusiast]

25. You can see it in her face.

She has no heart.

[grasswire]

8. Is there a prior relationship between Logan and Matalin?

And it's time to re-open the Rather matter.

Sweep it all up.

[Rebellious Republican]

9. CronieBiasedStation, I always wondered what CBS stood for!

K&R for exposure.

[NBachers]

11. Wait, but Logan admitted "Mistakes Were Made." Can't we put this all behind us now?

"I apologize if something I said happened to offend you."

"Let's look forward, not backward"

"OK, and here's the part where we squirt shit-lies all over President Obama's image - again!"

"And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities"

"Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie!"

[tavernier]

18. She must be a Monty Python fan

Always look on the bright side of life!



No worries, Ms. Logan. They love dumb blondes at faux.

[Kingofalldems]

12. Would love to get to the bottom of this one

I wonder if a suit can be filed.

[malaise]

14. Any word from Lindsay Graham??

[Berlum]

16. Disgusting rightwing claptrap - CBS & Republicons Against America

Disgusting.

[Enthusiast]

26. it's worse than that........nt

[hue]

17. Logan & producers should really be held responsible!!

[rhett o rick]

19. By who? nm

[Enthusiast]

27. Exactly............nt

[otohara]

20. Who Does She Think She Is Calling For Retribution?

She needs to be fired.

[erpowers]

21. Her Husband

I wonder how much her husband's business impacts her current view on the world. A few years ago, possibly before she married her current husband, Lara Logan seemed to have a different view on the world. It seems before her current marriage she was not calling for war all the time. Now that she is married to a defense contractor she seems to want more war. I would like to know if her husband would have benefitted financially if there had been an American military retaliation against the Libyan rebels who attacked the U.S. embassy in Libya. It may be that Logan pushed this story knowing that if military action occurred her husband would profit.

[ZX86]

22. CBS gets away with this nonsense because of no oversight.

With the end of the Fairness Doctrine broadcasters answer to no one but their corporate bosses. There is a solution. Like religion make news media tax exempt.

Any organization that gathers and disseminates public affair news and/or opinion should be tax exempt as long as they devote 15% of their content to outside review/rebuttal and they have no other business interests outside of public affairs news.

A simple solution that would work.

[Enthusiast]

28. I'm with you. An excellent simple solution.

Outside review and rebuttal. It's clear now why they pushed ending the fairness doctrine.

[Enthusiast]

29. One more thing.

Without this massive propaganda mechanism they would have nothing.

[Blue Owl]

30. Peel off the stink lid on that rancid can of propaganda

n/t

[spanone]

31. our media is worse than broken, it's corrupted.

[spanone]

32. sounds like ms logan has an agenda beyond reporting. shame on cbs.

walter cronkite is spinning in his grave

[Snake Plissken]

33. CBS might as well just get it over this and hire Lindsay Lohan to do 60 minutes

why stop half way there with Lara Logan?

[Major Hogwash]

34. Mary Matalin!!! The cryptkeeper's wife!?!

She is the worst partisan hack the GOP ever had!!!

"Scooter is not guilty of anything."

Yeah, right!!