“How dare that man tell us a story we didn’t bother to corroborate with his employers? Instead, we went with his story and it’s now blown up in our faces.
Well, no. You did wrong. You failed to check your source’s story. You claim to have been investigating this story for a full year, and during all that time you couldn’t be bothered to verify his assertions? What the hell kind of journalism is this?
Jay Rosen of Press Think has some thoughts about this whole sorry mess, and they’re not flattering to CBS.