what he called the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy, naming blogger andrew sullivant and the no, sir g.l.a.d. was the punishment warrant t in these different cases? lauren ashburn, fox news contributor and author of the column on foxnews.com. jim pinkerton, fox news contributor, and dana milbank, columnist for the washington post. given the magnitude of the mistake on this benghazi story, was cbs justified in suspending lara logan? absolutely. this was a colossal mistake and something had to be done. that isn t to take away from lara logan and max mcclellan, who are very good journalists. but this is true in any corporation. when something goes wrong, you have to apologize and take action in order to maintain your credibility. i m told the suspension will be for a significant period of time, not just a couple of weeks, which some might see as a slap on the wrist. but jim woods, someone without
with howard. see you back here at noon. thanks. cbs suspends. even though the network isn t using that word for the botched report in benghazi. and they said 60 minutes should have vetted the story far more carefully. the most important thing to every person at 60 minutes is the truth, and the truth is we made a mistake. msnbc dropped alec baldwin over an alleged anti-gay slur shoulded at a photographer. and he attacked gay advocates and demands to know why his network didn t penalize martin bashir for sliming sarah palin. so you have this versus this versus this. on thursday night, when we discovered the account he gave the fbi was different than what he told us, we realized we had been misled and it was a mistake to include him in our report. i wanted to take this opportunity to say sorry to mrs. palin and to also offer an unreserved apology to her friends and family. we ll examine how the network handles these very different screw-ups and how that affects
the track record and star power of lara logan have been fighting this. that s possible. an old joke in journalism, too good to check. if you make millions a year, you re obligated. jeff factor, overall in charge of the show, why didn t he suspend himself as well as logan and mcclellan? that s a serious suggestion? why not? if accountability means accountability, the people who make the mistakes are accountable. which leads to my question for dana, which is the language in this internal inquiry report is very measured, sort of just the facts approach. wouldn t it have been better for cbs credibility, for jeff s credibility, to have an outside investigation? well, that might have helped. i m also a little puzzled by this sort of suspension penalty, which a lot of news outlets, including mine, have used sort of in between saying you re sorry and firing somebody. it seems to me if they did something bad, well, they get fired. and if they didn t do something
interview, attacking tmz and what he called the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy, naming blogger andrew sullivant and the no, sir g.l.a.d. was the punishment warrant t in these different cases? lauren ashburn, fox news contributor and author of the column on foxnews.com. jim pinkerton, fox news contributor, and dana milbank, columnist for the washington post. given the magnitude of the mistake on this benghazi story, was cbs justified in suspending lara logan? absolutely. this was a colossal mistake and something had to be done. that isn t to take away from lara logan and max mcclellan, who are very good journalists. but this is true in any corporation. when something goes wrong, you have to apologize and take action in order to maintain your credibility. i m told the suspension will be for a significant period of time, not just a couple of weeks, which some might see as a slap on the wrist. but jim woods, someone without
0 the track record and star power of lara logan have been fighting this. that s possible. an old joke in journalism, too good to check. if you make millions a year, you re obligated. jeff factor, overall in charge of the show, why didn t he suspend himself as well as logan and mcclellan? that s a serious suggestion? why not? if accountability means accountability, the people who make the mistakes are accountable. which leads to my question for dana, which is the language in this internal inquiry report is very measured, sort of just the facts approach. wouldn t it have been better for cbs credibility, for jeff s credibility, to have an outside investigation? well, that might have helped. i m also a little puzzled by this sort of suspension penalty, which a lot of news outlets, including mine, have used sort of in between saying you re sorry and firing somebody. it seems to me if they did something bad, well, they get fired. and if they didn t do something that bad, what s th