On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, it gets better. > > It gets so better. > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/lara-logan-60-minutes-leave_n_4344883.html
The central question here seems to be why Logan and CBS News did not know what Davies had said to the FBI, but apparently every other news organization that looked into the matter seemed to pretty easily find out (Washington Post, New York Times) - and that CBS News itself was able to find out within hours once it decided to look into it. The memo from the in house investigator notes that this was a problem, but gives no explanation. It does provide a hint however, at the end noting that Logan had publicly expressed the view that the Obama Administration was under-estimating the terrorist threat a month before she started working on the story (see below). I thought Logan was Will McAvoy in this story, but it turns out she was the DC douchebag who made the story up. (Well, she did not literally make the story up, or falsify video; but she does seem to be the one who blindly rushed through a story without doing even basic fact-checking, apparently because she had reached a conclusion before she even started her reporting. Excerpt: "In October of 2012, one month before starting work on the Benghazi story, Logan made a speech in which she took a strong public position arguing that the US Government was misrepresenting the threat from Al Qaeda, and urging actions that the US should take in response to the Benghazi attack. From a CBS News Standards perspective, there is a conflict in taking a public position on the government’s handling of Benghazi and Al Qaeda, while continuing to report on the story." -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
