CBS Journalist at 60 Minutes Misled By Source, Used For Broadcast

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The report also said Logan should not have done the story in the first place after making a speech in Chicago a year ago claiming that it was a lie that America's military had tamed al Qaeda.
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'The most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth, and today the truth is we made a mistake. That's very disappointing for any journalist, that's very disappointing for me.
‘Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong and in this case we were wrong.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514060/Lara-Logan-producer-suspended-false-60-Minutes-report-Benghazi.html

Lara Logan and her producer 'suspended' over false 60 Minutes report on Benghazi after she was forced to make humiliating on-air apology for 'disappointing mistakes'
60 Minutes aired an interview with a security contractor who claimed to rush over to the American consulate after the attack began in 2012
After the interview with Dylan Davies aired, CBS learned that Davies told the FBI a different version of events
Logan apologized for being 'misled' less than a week after the segment aired on October 27 but today CBS announced her leave of absence
By MEGHAN KENEALLY and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:51 EST, 26 November 2013 | UPDATED: 18:37 EST, 26 November 2013

How To Protect Identities of News Sources

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May 15, 2013 8:18 pm
New Yorker reveals Aaron Swartz-inspired system to protect sources
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York

Fox Reporter Subpoenaed to Reveal Source of CO Shooter's Notebooks

Jana Winter, Fox News New York

[From article]
Winter soon broke an exclusive story revealing that, prior to the shooting, Holmes had sent a package to a University of Colorado psychiatrist that included a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people," according to one of Winter’s sources. Her July 25 article on FoxNews.com also reported that the notebook contained illustrations of a massacre, including drawings of gun-wielding stick figures shooting other stick figures.
The package, sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton, is now in the hands of Holmes' defense attorneys,

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/05/free-press-fight-how-fox-news-reporter-wound-up-facing-jail-for-doing-job/

Free press fight: How Fox News reporter wound up facing jail for doing job
Published April 05, 2013
FoxNews.com

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University says Holmes papers back its statement
By DAN ELLIOTT
The Associated Press

What is the Role of a Journalist?

Matt "Taibbi, citing the Pentagon's huge $4.7 billion PR budget, says that "most of the major TV outlets are completely in the bag for the Pentagon." A reporter's job is not to be a cheerleader for his or her journalistic subjects, Taibbi says, but to get at the truth for the people of the U.S. who don't have the resources to find out the truth for themselves."

How many journalists actually focus on keeping people informed? It appears that more journalists prefer protecting their sources, and keeping the herd bewildered (as Noam Chomsky describes it).

Journalists Debate on Reporting Ethics
Source: Rolling Stone, June 28, 2010

CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan

The fallout from Michael Hastings' inflammatory article in Rolling Stone about General Stanley McChrystal continues as journalists debate the appropriateness of Hastings' reporting. Hastings' article gave a frank albeit dismal assessment of the U.S.'s deteriorating prospects in Afghanistan, and contained candid disclosures by McChrystal and members of his inner circle that led to the end of McChrystal's military career. In a CNN interview, CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slammed Hastings, saying that there is an "unspoken agreement that you're not going to embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter." Hastings says beat reporters like Logan, who report continuously on the military, publish little negative information about their subjects because it will end their access. In response to Logan's interview, Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi defended Hastings, explaining that this is a battle between journalists who act as handmaidens for the Pentagon and the White House, and reporters who deliver truth to the public. Taibbi, citing the Pentagon's huge $4.7 billion PR budget, says that "most of the major TV outlets are completely in the bag for the Pentagon." A reporter's job is not to be a cheerleader for his or her journalistic subjects, Taibbi says, but to get at the truth for the people of the U.S. who don't have the resources to find out the truth for themselves. The questions reporters need to be asking on behalf of the American people, he says, are " What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? Is it worth all the bloodshed and the hatred? Who are the people running this thing, what is their agenda, and is that agenda the same thing we voted for?"

US Attorney Demands Electronic Visitors List From Indymedia


"The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to and from www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to "include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information," including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers' Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10394026-38.html

November 9, 2009 9:10 PM PST
Justice Dept. asked for news site's visitor lists
by Declan McCullagh
CNET.com News