The CBS News correspondent Lara Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, made serious errors in an Oct. 27 report on the attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, and will take leaves of absence, the network announced on Tuesday. Four Americans died in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
The moves come after weeks of criticism directed at a “60 Minutes” report which was based on an interview with a hired security agent, Dylan Davies, whose comments to CBS News were later discredited.
CBS did not specify the length of the leave of absence for its two staff members, nor whether they would continue to be paid. In general, television correspondents do not lose salary unless they are suspended.
Beyond Ms. Logan, who has been a rising star at CBS News, the review could have implications for the leadership of Jeffrey Fager, the chairman of CBS News, who is also the executive producer of “60 Minutes.” Mr. Fager sent an email to the staff on Tuesday, saying: “As executive producer, I am responsible for what gets on the air. I pride myself in catching almost everything, but this deception got through and it shouldn’t have.”
He added: “We are making adjustments at ’60 Minutes’ to reduce the chances of it happening again.”
I can see the Fox News coverage of this already, "Benghazi claims yet another victim."
Man you would think at this point even the Right Wing would avoid Benghazi at all cost.
You know if they had any journalistic integrity whatsoever.
Which of course they don't.
It looks like Ms.Logan went into the 60 Minutes story with an ax to grind. From an earlier speech in Chicago:
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A Fan From Chicago
Cheer up, Lara, Roger Ailes on line 1 and does he have a deal for YOU!
ReplyDelete“As executive producer, I am responsible for what gets on the air. I pride myself in catching almost everything, but this deception got through and it shouldn’t have.”
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Continued Mr. Fager:
So I am taking complete and total responsibility for this debacle -
by firing people who are not me.
I happened to have seen the deposition given by Fager on the Dan Rather case against CBS. He completely threw Dan Rather under the bus, as did many top brass who worked at 60 Minutes. A reporter does not put their own story on the air. It takes a team of many and the buck does not stop with the reporter. IMO
DeleteBut the rigthwing HAS integrity. They are nasty assholes through and through.
ReplyDeleteLeave of absence=find a job at Faux.
ReplyDeletebengazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii......now what can they harp on.
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Fagen came from Fox. He has no integrity to prove. Ailes no doubt fed him the story.
ReplyDeleteAnother woman wanting to get a Fox gig. Blonde, shrill and filled with hate. She'll fit right in.
ReplyDeleteThat's a whole lot of errors, all of which were preventable. Logan was just too anxious to tell this story in a particular way, and decided not to let reporting get in the way of it. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/11/lara-logan-taking-leave-absence-60-minutes
ReplyDeleteAlso worth checking out: Jeff Stein's Newsweek piece a few days ago suggesting that Logan's husband may have played an instrumental behind-the-scenes role in shaping her Benghazi report.
“So is this thing over?” a non-political friend of mine asked me Sunday in regards to the Martin Bashir/Sarah Palin story.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/concha-what-we-learned-after-11-days-of-analyzing-martin-bashir-msnbc/
Sarah Palin Accepts Apology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/24/sarah-palin-martin-bashir-apology_n_4333579.html
Is the producer McClellan related to Scott McClellan, Dubya's press secretary?
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DeleteIt's too bad that they didn't bother to make her do an in-depth correction to the story before they let her take a paid vacation. After what CBS did to Dan Rather for telling the truth about W's fake ROTC record? Puh-lease...
ReplyDeleteMaybe Lindsey Graham will call for another investigation and reopen the Benghazi hearings.
ReplyDeleteMs Lindsay's crinolines are in such a twist these days.
DeleteThey don't have anything else. Even ACA is starting to pick up steam. The pope bashes trickle down, and the IRS is going after Rove. Happy Holidays.
ReplyDeleteDo we really think that Fager is guilt free here? While the woman is the scapegoat, she had many cheering her on. Remember that a division of the CBS parent company was publishing the guy's book.
ReplyDeleteAnd her Fox News job offer comes in 3. . .2. . .1
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin must be sweating bullets and smell of exhaust.
The Pee People will lose one of their big talking points.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, I found this article to be most interesting and uplifting, you and your readers may as well:
ReplyDeleteTwo Kenyon Students Offered An Incredibly Sincere And Thoughtful Apology After Accusations Of Racial Insensitivity
Kenyon College was rocked last week after two students were caught walking around campus wearing white sheets, leading to accusations of racial insensitivity and an administrative investigation.
After the incident was reported in student news blog The Thrill, many Kenyon students were quick to attack or defend the incident — in which the students in question were reportedly dressed in ghost costumes.
Regardless of their intention, the two students quickly realized the potential offense they may have caused by their actions. Their campus-wide apology — sent over an all-students listserve — is both mature and introspective, and shows a lot more appreciation for the feelings of others than a simple apology or defense.
"Although we did not intend to hurt anyone, this does not negate the very real feelings of threat, terror, pain, and rage we engendered in many of our peers," they write.
Check out the full email below:
http://www.businessinsider.com/two-kenyon-students-offered-an-incredibly-sincere-and-thoughtful-apology-after-accusations-of-racial-insensitivity-2013-11
So who thinks that they'll choose politics?
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When Healthcare.gov actually starts working, GOP will have to choose between politics or their constituents' health
The confluence of two pieces of news last week will place Republicans at a moral crossroads — either by this weekend, or whenever Healthcare.gov can legitimately be described as a “working” website.
The first came from Jeffrey Zients — the Obama administration point person in charge of fixing Healthcare.gov — who told reporters on Friday that the site will be able to handle 50,000 users at a time and 800,000 users a day by the the end of next week. That’s double the current capacity, and right in time for an expected surge in demand just before the end of the year.
The second came from the pro-reform group Families USA, which examined options available to 15 million people who are currently covered on the individual market (many of whose policies have been canceled and will lapse by the end of the year) under the Affordable Care Act.
According to Families USA, over 70 percent of those currently insured will either qualify for premium tax credits on state-based insurance exchanges, or become newly eligible for Medicaid coverage under the healthcare law.
“Nationally, 71 percent of people in the individual market under age 65 have incomes at or below 400 percent of poverty,” according to Families USA. “Under the Affordable Care Act, these people are income-eligible for financial help to purchase an insurance plan, either through new premium tax credit subsidies or through expanded Medicaid.”
Together that combines all of the ingredients any marketplace needs to be successful:
Read more:
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/25/right_wing_extremists_face_new_moral_conundrum/
’60 Minutes’ and Benghazi: Five hard realities
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Suspensions, leaves of absence, forced sabbaticals — whatever you call them, they’re empty and symbolic PR stunts, designed to quell public outrage, always to the detriment of the organization. They do nothing more than further shake the confidence of someone who screwed up, while marooning the employee at home — far away from the training and support that would best prevent a repeat failure.
DeleteFollowing their bad reporting, Logan and McClellan are now taking an extended holiday break, during which they’ll do … what? Sit at home and stew? Catch up on some reading? Gossip about how certain other colleagues should also be doing forced leisure?
In circumstances such as this one, news organizations need to make a call as to whether the breakdowns constitute a firing offense. If they do, then fire people, as CBS News did following the Dan Rather non-expose on the National Guard service of President George W. Bush. If they don’t warrant dismissal, then work these people harder. Start on the next story. Raise the standards.
It’s possible that the leaves of absence are but a first step toward the dismissal of Logan and McClellan. If that’s the case, though, doesn’t CBS News have enough information right now to take that step? A better bet is that the two will quietly slink back into the office in the near future. Is that really accountability?
"Right-wing extremists face new moral conundrum...GOP will have to choose between politics or their constituents' health "
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Well now, that is a silly starting sentence. The GOP chose politics over their constituents' health long ago.
And the POS book that the liar wrote is still on sale locally. I turned it over. Maybe will complain to management.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone think she might have been bangin' her source?
ReplyDeleteLara Logan has never been anything special and she is more suited to FOX: blonde, incompetent and talks shit and doesn't correct it.
ReplyDeleteI stopped watching 60 Minutes when I grew up.
I love "The buck stops here" part. After what he did to Dan Rather is what should happen to Lara Logan. (but the producer is a man and Lara is a woman who happens to be blonde and ran a back of lies. Dan Rather, on the other hand, deserved a promotion for telling the truth. This smacks of sexism to me, but hey, I haven't watched 60 minutes in ages.
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