What happened to the news?

Well…not sure if you’ve read or heard about the latest implosion of a news organization, where CBS’s 60 minutes ran a supposedly new report on Benghazi that was going to finally get to the bottom of it…even when there is no bottom to get to. They ran the report a couple of weeks ago and almost immediately, other news organizations dug just a little bit to find that the person they hung the entire expose’ on was a liar…saying in official reports to his company and the FBI that he was at his seaside villa when the attack was going on, but in the 60 Minutes report and his book, this liar made himself out to be a hero…scaling a 12 foot wall to get into the consulate and killing an insurgent by hitting him in the face with his gun butt. When did 60 Minutes become just another hack news show? And, how can the producers there throw away 50 years of integrity just because they want to get on the right wing bandwagon…ignoring the basic tenets of journalism for sensationalism? The fallout from this sordid affair continue with even the publisher of the book who is well known for publishing right wing screeds removing it from the shelves and the supposed author going into seclusion. I do have to thank our liberal attack machine, Media Matters, for their work on exposing this blatant set of lies…good job.

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