60 Minutes edited out questions about gun violence from interview with President Obama

[kpete]

During the interview that aired Sunday night, Kroft pressed Obama six times about Clinton's emails.

No questions about gun violence made it into the portions of the interview CBS aired. But it turns out Kroft actually did actually raise the topic of gun violence with Obama during the Q&A, but 60 Minutes editors cut that portion out of the final TV interview. (Viewers can only see Obama and Kroft's exchange about gun violence online.)

In other words, the portion of the Q&A that focused on the well-worn process story of Clinton's emails was deemed by CBS to be far more newsworthy than Obama's discussion of gun violence, even though the interview came in the wake of several campus shootings this month.

And at no time when addressing the email issue did Kroft mention that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently made headlines when he seemed to acknowledge that the Benghazi select committee, which is now focused almost exclusively on the email issue, was created in order to sabotage Clinton's White House run.

MORE:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/13/during-obama-interview-60-minutes-prioritized-c/206099

[blm]

1. Corpmedia serves corporate empires now. BushInc sez, "Jump" and CBS sez, "How high?"

Anyone who wouldn't carry BushInc's water was pushed out of CBS.