27 November 2013

She's welcome, any time

The Huffington Post has an article by Michael Calderone about the troubles of Lara Logan:
Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of 60 Minutes, informed his staff that Lara Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, would be taking a leave of absence following an internal report on the newsmagazine's discredited 27 October 2013 Benghazi report.
Two weeks ago, Logan apologized to viewers for the piece, saying that "the truth is that we made a mistake". The report in question, since retracted by CBS, centered on the disputed account of Dylan Davies, a British security contractor who claimed he was at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya on the night it was attacked in 2012. After the program aired, The New York Times and others discovered a number of contradictions between the account Davies gave to CBS and the one he gave to the FBI and his employer—inconsitencies that CBS now concedes they should have been aware of before the 60 Minutes piece aired.
"There is a lot to learn from this mistake for the entire organization," CBS News chairman Jeff Fager said in a memo. "We have rebuilt CBS News in a way that has dramatically improved our reporting abilities. Ironically, 60 Minutes, which has been a model for those changes, fell short by broadcasting a now discredited account of an important story, and did not take full advantage of the reporting abilities of CBS News that might have prevented it from happening."
No word on how long Logan and McClellan will be on the bench.
Rico says she's doubtless married, but she can be consoled by Rico any time...

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