Former CBS newsman Dan Relatively is in a novel place to sort out the problems surrounding 60 Minutes following its faulty Benghazi record, and on Piers Morgan‘s exhibit Monday evening, Slightly defined what he says is the key difference between his report and Lara Logan‘s: his story was genuine.

Rather echoed points made in Mediaite’s security of Logan: that it’s very straightforward in charge the correspondent (being the face of the reporter) and forget that there are people working on these reports in the back of the scenes who are deserving of similar scrutiny, and that any judgment of Logan’s journalistic bona fides should take her entire occupation under consideration, and not just this one incident.

As for his record on George W. Bush‘s national defend carrier, Rather claimed that there was once a big distinction between the fallout from his and Logan’s experiences.

“With our story, the one that resulted in our problem, no query the story was once proper. What the criticism… used to be ‘oKay, your story used to be true, however where you got to the reality was once improper.’”

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