60 Minutes apologizes for Benghazi report

The iconic American TV investigative news program “60 Minutes”, which airs on CBS, apologized for its Benghazi story two weeks before.  Reporter Lara Logan went on air to express regret for a story on the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya last year. Logan said their main source for the story, Dylan Davies, had misled the program’s staff. “It was a mistake to include him in our report. For that, we are very sorry,” Logan said. CBS took down the report from its site and scrubbed its Twitter feed. The New York Times drew parallels between this case and CBS’s flawed 2004 report on President George W. Bush’s time in the National Guard. The correspondent on the Bush report was CBS’ equally iconic news anchor Dan Rather, who resigned from the network in 2005.  The NYT notes, “Overall, cries of “conservative bias” are not nearly as resonant as cries of “liberal bias” were in 2004…” Media critics called for CBS to initiate an independent investigation of mistakes in the reporting process. CBS had not ordered an investigation.

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