Friday, June 21, 2013
Time for 60 Minutes and Jeff Fager to Correct Bethlehem Falsehood
Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of 60 Minutes, says all the right things about journalistic ethics. But when 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon broadcast a clear cut falsehood, Fager disregarded the central journalistic guideline requiring errors be forthrightly corrected. 60 Minutes claimed, wrongly, that Bethlehem is "completely surrounded" by a "wall." When presented with clear evidence that this is false, Fager stonewalled. See details at www.camera.org/60minutes