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I think the recent history of 60 Minutes might be what it looks like when the government starts calling in its favors.

Nah, just basic incompetence and lack of journalistic integrity, and it ain't recent. Remember "Unintended Acceleration" from the 80ies? Complete and utter BS, yet they not just ran with it, but stuck with it after the BS was "exposed" (in quotes because it was obvious beforehand).

(Unintended Acceleration was the claim in the 80ies that Audis, when in reverse, would accelerate when the driver was stepping on the brake pedal without touching the gas pedal. Mechanically completely impossible and never actually happened. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cjm_18.htm)

Beautiful read! Reminds me of last years Toyota with a similar 'issue' ;-)

There has to be a better explanation of why Dan Rather was fired and Lara Logan just got a promotion. Now, as far as incompetence, I have a question of whether I'm putting the cart before the horse, particularly whether the NSA/Bezos/etc. used 60min because they knew they could get their message out predictably, because CBS News is a dead horse.

What else are you referring to? I can think of:

- The Prime Air story (can't really see how that would have to do with the government)

- The botched Benghazi story (that doesn't quite make sense)

Or is it something else?

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