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spanone

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Tue Nov 12, 2013, 05:38 PM Nov 2013

60 Minutes Still Hasn't Mentioned Their Benghazi Conflict Of Interest

60 Minutes still hasn't told its viewers that its since-retracted report on the September 2012 Benghazi attacks promoted a book that was published by a CBS subsidiary -- a conflict of interest the network acknowledged was a mistake a week ago.

Media commentators have been raining criticism on CBS News in response to 60 Minutes' tepid, incomplete apology for their retracted report on Benghazi. Those critics have pointed out that the 90-second apology failed to explain how the segment made it to air given the serious questions about the credibility of its star "witness" Dylan Davies, and have lambasted the network for failing to announce an investigation into the handling of the story.

But even before CBS News finally acknowledged the problems with Davies story, the network conceded it had made a mistake in failing to tell the viewers of the October 27 story that Davies' book, which the segment promoted, was published by Simon & Schuster, which is a division of CBS.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/12/60-minutes-still-hasnt-mentioned-their-benghazi/196862
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60 Minutes Still Hasn't Mentioned Their Benghazi Conflict Of Interest (Original Post) spanone Nov 2013 OP
k/r Dawson Leery Nov 2013 #1
Soon the show will be known as 45 Minutes Blue Owl Nov 2013 #2
bwahahhaaa spanone Nov 2013 #3
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