“60 Minutes” is rapidly becoming a shell of its former identity as a hard-hitting seeker of truth. First the Lara Logan Benghazi story was based on the lies of their chief witness, then the NSA puff-piece, and now last night’s fluffer for Bud Selig and his “legacy.”
I wonder what has happened at Black Rock. While the program used to do celebrity profiles, you could pretty much count on its news and investigative segments to be solid and honest. Not anymore. Those three stories I mentioned all had discernible agendas, and not ones objective journalists would stand behind. I suspect Don Hewitt, Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley and Harry Reasoner are all spinning in their graves at the recent lapses in journalistic standards.
I haven’t watched it in years, but from what I read about their episode on disability – it sounded like a rally event to try & whip up nutballs into a fervor to go shooting those moochers in wheel chairs & knock the prosthetic legs out from underneath honoured war veterans.
It’s just a big sensational nonsense… if it was journalism once, it’s just like the rest of infotainment today now.