Sorry CBS - I won't watch 60 Minutes again

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88. What I sent 'em:

Subject: Why haven't you fired Lara Logan and her producer - for crapping all over your credibility?
(Even if they send this straight to their trash bin, they'll know what it's about without even opening it.)

Dear folks -

I'm a retired journalist, and if I was a known partisan who had misconstrued a report because of a personal agenda I had, to weaken the standing of a sitting President and a recently retired Secretary of State (who might be a future Presidential candidate) - and who took a YEAR working on a "story" and didn't realize she was being used by an agenda-driven lie-spinner, and whose work was used to buttress the products and profit margin of an affiliated company (a CLEAR case of conflict-of-interest), I would be fired by now. WHY is Lara Logan still employed? Because she photographs well or looks good wearing a low-cut top that shows off her cleavage? ON "60 MINUTES"?????????????

You're certainly capable of such quick and decisive remedial moves. After all, you certainly got rid of Dan Rather and Mary Mapes in a hurry - even though their story was based on truths. Lara Logan is a proven war-hawk with an agenda. If nothing else, she's a lazy reporter with slipshod tactics who didn't check her sources but just stovepiped one of 'em on the air because what he said was damaging to the White House. So what does that make YOU, now?

You HAVE to let her go, AND her producer as well. You HAVE to send a message. Otherwise, you'll be as guilty of crapping on the previously-sterling "60 Minutes" brand. CBS News was once the home of "the most trusted man in America" (Walter Cronkite - in case some of you forgot or are too young to remember). "60 Minutes" was uber-reputable, its credibility beyond any question or doubt - before your little Goldilocks was even BORN! I am old enough to remember back that far. It's a tragedy, and nearly a crime, to see this FORMERLY highly-respected program decline so badly. Who'll feel like trusting it anymore? Certainly not me. You've lost me as a viewer, as well as a retired journalist who now feels rather personally insulted.

No wonder people don't trust most TV news anymore...


Regretfully and rather disgusted -

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