What is CBS Hiding? Who Is CBS Protecting at 60 Minutes?

[deminks]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/13/what-is-cbs-hiding-who-is-cbs-protecting-at-60/196873

Journalism veterans and media observers continue to strike the same chord while launching a chorus of criticism at CBS News in recent days: The network needs to be transparent and explain exactly what happened with its botched Benghazi report, and start detailing how such an obviously flawed report made in onto the most-watched news program in America.

And yet it's silence from CBS, which is now stonewalling press inquiries, as well as the calls for an outside review of its Benghazi reporting. CBS' refusal to undergo a public examination in the wake of such a landmark blunder stands in stark contrast to how news organizations have previously dealt with black eyes; news organizations that once included CBS News.

CBS is now taking a radically different approach. There appears to have been a corporate decision made that granting members of an independent review panel unfettered access to 60 Minutes represents a greater danger than the deep damage currently being done to the network's brand via the two-week-old scandal.

So again and again the question bounces back to this: What is CBS hiding? And who is CBS protecting?

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[Fumesucker]

1. Somewhere, Dan Rather is doing this:

[randome]

2. Verrrry interesting.

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[tridim]

3. That they are not in the news business any more?

Faux doesn't care, but CBS should.

[Berlum]

6. CBS has metamorphosed into a Full-on Right-wing Propaganda Spigot (R)

I mean, getting into bed withe the freakin "Lincoln Group" (R) and Mary Matalin (R) and hiring a Fox (R) propaganda pimp to run the "news" operation?

CBS must think American's are fools and that we would swallow their conglomeration of right-wing propaganda spew without gagging.

[libodem]

12. Yeah

They think we are fucking retarded.

(sorry but the r-word doesn't have the same ring to it)

[Voice for Peace]

23. I hate to confess it but many of us ARE S.L.O.W.

I thought for some times that CBS was one of the
good guys. It's confusing as hell.

It's not retardation however; it is deep sleep, maybe a fog over the land.

The on-air pollution of everyone's space, lies lies lies lies lies until
a person can't think any more for themselves and either becomes
a liar or gets a headache and takes a nap. And while they sleep,
more fog is generated. Smog, I guess, not fog.

[libodem]

24. This is just a high tech

Hotel Rwanda. They used talk radio to sow hate, until half the population took up machettes, against the other half. Don't think for a minute that the right wing talk machine, wouldn't like the brainwashed NRA, freaks to take up arms against Progressives. I think they keep the threat alive and encourage the bloody massacres we see increasing. Most are now shown to be right wing nuts.

[Dopers_Greed]

17. But you know...

The media has a liberal bias, so we need these RW hack jobs every now and then to keep things balanced.

[jeff47]

9. CBS's primary demographic and the FOX News demographic

have quite a lot of overlap. They may be thinking they can "lock-in" viewers like FOX has.

[Little Star]

4. They could start by telling the true story of what happened.....

how about that! Don't just tell us that what they reported was a lie, tell the truth about what happened.

[myrna minx]

5. My speculation is that they're protecting someone like Issa or folks who are

directly tied to the GOP. This is just speculation, of course, but it does look dirty. If they wanted to give the appearance of journalistic integrity, they'd open up to a review and let all the skeletons fall out.

[Auntie Bush]

7. The right wing shill David Rhodes and Mary Matilin were responsible and

need to be fired and would give me great pleasure. I'd jump up and down and cheer. Please Google both of them to find out how far right these lairs are. They shouldn't be allowed or given jobs in anything to do with journalism.
They are nothing but lying propagandist!

[n2doc]

8. CBS is a useful Corporate Tool

Since no one except the brainwashed believes Fox is a legit news station anymore, the powers that be need another trojan horse channel to spread their propaganda to the unwary. CBS appears to be the candidate first up at bat for them.

[The Wizard]

13. CBS, like the other major propaganda outlets

used to be a bit more subtle, using Pox blatant propaganda for cover. Now it appears they've gone whole hog right wing like Pox.
They have rendered themselves irrelevant to normal people.

[libodem]

10. This shit had been on going

Since Rmoney ran for president. I think the whole event was fomented from the inside to leave the perpetrators untrace-able. And to lay blame on Obama and Hilary.

Of, course it sounds crazy. That makes it the perfect crime. No one would dare to think it.

I think the whole thing has smelled from the beginning.

[JEFF9K]

11. I know this much is true: There is big money in lying for conservatives.

[zeemike]

15. And being booted out of your job if you don't

Like Dan Rathers...it is the carrot and stick approach to controlling what we see as news.

[Firebrand Gary]

14. They are effectively aligning themselves with Fox News. Partisan, politically motivated and...

unaccountable to themselves as well as the public.

[The Second Stone]

16. Rather broadcast something suspect, now 60 Minutes airs lies

and no firings, no investigation. The folks at KTVU news should do the investigating and making recommendations. Their practical joke gone awry was investigated and punished swiftly.

[silvershadow]

18. Surely someone of greater stature than

a 40-year career veteran at the pinnacle of his career, right?

[arcane1]

19. Finally, an ACTUAL "Benghazi scandal"

[docgee]

20. +1000

Now ain't that the fucking truth!

[Tarheel_Dem]

27. !!!

[Corruption Inc]

21. CBS isn't hiding anything, they're propaganda and proud of it

They work for whoever pays them and could care less about news, journalism, investigations, reality, the public or truth.

When are people going to get that?

[tblue]

22. The Fox brand is toxic to normal people so

they devised a way to reach a broader audience--take over a mainstream network news org.

With this scandal, it backfired. We shall see what happens next. Does CBS really want to become Fox II?

[Scurrilous]

25. Boink

[Tarheel_Dem]

26. K&R