CBS News Admits Ethics Violation in Benghazi Report
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan confessed that the network “erred” by failing to disclose the financial connection it shared with the subject of a widely criticized 60 Minutes report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks. But the network’s admission of an ethics violation did not extend further, and Logan issued a general defense of the report’s accuracy without addressing the persisting questions that surround the report’s source’s conflicting accounts of the night of the attacks.
On November 5, The New York Times reported that Logan and CBS News were standing by the network’s Benghazi reporting, despite a stark admission by Logan that the network made a “mistake” in its failure to disclose that a subsidiary of CBS was publishing a book written by the report’s source, Dylan Davies. Jeffrey Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of 60 Minutes, added that he regretted keeping the connection under wraps. From the Times:
CBS News, under fire from critics who dispute details in a “60 Minutes” report on the Benghazi attacks last year that was broadcast on Oct. 27, aggressively defended the report’s accuracy on Tuesday and the account of its main interview subject.