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During an in-depth dialogue of 60 Minutes’ broadly-maligned segment on the Nationwide Security Agency, a Reliable Sources panel debated whether sources had an excessive amount of leverage over journalists, to the purpose of controlling the tone and severity of interviews.
“Maybe what we’re seeing is the increasing energy of sources to decide on their interviewers, and to choose their format,” new CNN host Brian Stelter posed to the panel.
“These are long segments that 60 Minutes is doing, they’ve quite a lot of time to truly press these folks,” Huffington Put up media reporter Michael Calderone said. “With a truly secretive person like Jeff Bezos—journalists would kill to get a minute with him, let on my own the access [Charlie Rose] bought, and they mainly obtained to advertise this drone story, which was in all places on cyber-Monday, proper as people had been going to show to Amazon.”
“This last week, we had three completely different experiences about the NSA,” The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza said. “We had 60 Minutes, we had a federal decide, and we had a White House panel. So three of the 4 branches of government told you one thing about NSA. Unfortunately the one that was probably the most professional-NSA and had the least criticism used to be the one by means of 60 Minutes.”
“Who deputized CBS to assert, ‘You’ve heard the entire bad criticism, so we’re going to provide the other facet of the story?’” said former NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard.
“I did not understand that justification,” Lizza said. “60 Minutes has an enormous platform—15 to 20 million viewers. A variety of these viewer most definitely now not are conversant in that story. It’s an important, complicated story, that requires any person with the instruments of 60 Minutes to take a step back and inform the entire thing, not just think that, ‘Oh, viewers available in the market had been paying attention to critics bash the thing, so let’s give the NSA the possibility to respond.’ That’s not just right journalism.”
Watch the whole clip under, by way of CNN:
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