Photo: Cass Bird/Trunk Archive After a six-month, network-imposed leave-of-absence, Lara Logan is reportedly back at CBS and its venerable news magazine show, 60 Minutes. Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, both skulked quietly out of Black Rock back in November of last year ...read more
Happy Tuesday! Let's just all take one collective sigh before we get going. Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. US 'Outraged' As Calls Grow to Help Rescue Nigeria Schoolgirls The US says it considers the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist ...read more
Last night, New York magazine published a hell of a piece on Lara Logan and the 60 Minutes screw-up that threatens to tank her career at CBS for good. I realize that when Logan's Benghazi story first blew up in her face last November I wrote that CBS would do everything in its ...read more
For those of you who thought that Lara Logan's suspension from CBS News a few weeks back might have heralded her permanent exit from the network, sorry to burst your bubble. Yesterday it was reported that both Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, would be returning to work ...read more
You know what the most powerful department is in any large media organization, the one you never under any circumstances want to run afoul of? Standards and Practices. It would be easy to say that the people in S&P are the caretakers of an organization's ethical reputation, but ...read more
In keeping with this time of the year, it's a good old-fashioned turkey bloodletting in TV news today. Not only is Alec Baldwin reportedly fired from MSNBC, but Lara Logan and her producer Max McClellan have been put on a forced leave-of-absence from CBS in the wake of last ...read more
There's a piece running over at Salon right now by Alex Pareene, one of the site's few bright spots these days, that asks what should be a pretty unremarkable question given the circumstances: how can CBS possibly not fire Lara Logan? The correct answer from an ethical ...read more
Back in the late 90s, a local news manager I was close to told me a story about Don Hewitt. He said that when Hewitt and Mike Wallace -- the creator and executive producer of 60 Minutes and the show's legendary investigative reporter, respectively -- visited a meeting of CBS ...read more
I considered doing a post today that would be titled something like "10 Things That Lasted Longer Than 60 Minutes Apology for Its Benghazi Story," but I figure after last week I should probably keep things straightforward at least for a little while. And here it is, as ...read more
Shh. Don't tell Ben I was here. If you want to feel really, really uncomfortable for about four-and-a-half minutes, watch Lara Logan on CBS This Morning trying to explain how she and 60 Minutes got their big bombshell story on Benghazi so horrifically wrong. Watch her come right ...read more