CBS violates its own Standards and Practice by altering transcript and video of McCain interview
By John Amato Tuesday Jul 22, 2008 11:00am
As C&L and many others have reported last night, CBS news had a huge scoop Tuesday night on John McCain, because he falsely claimed that the surge was responsible for the "Sunni Awakening in Anbar." That is FALSE. The Sunnis changed positions before the surge was ever discussed so---McCain once again makes a major mistake on the one issue his campaign is running on---The Iraq war.
However, CBS probably violated its own rules (Standards and Practice) by altering the video of Katie Couric's interview with McCain that left out his major blunder on this issue and then broadcast it on our airwaves. CBS should not paste together separate answers from different questions to make it appear like an answer was fluid. It was completely taken out of context. I understand that a fair amount of editing has to be done, but what they did failed to meet the legitimacy test.
Here's what happened. ON CBS Nightly News, Katie Couric started off the segment with question #3 of her interview from their website version of the McCain interview:
Couric QUESTION #3: Senator McCain, Sen. Obama says, while the increased number of U.S. troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What's your response to that?
They then edited out his major gaffe on "the surge" and inserted his partial answer to question #1 and then spliced in a partial answer to question # 3 to make it appear to be a consistent response.
Q1 Sen. Obama has indicated that by his failure to acknowledge the success of the surge, that he would rather lose a war than lose a campaign.
Q3 Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership, and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. I mean, to deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think, does a great disservice to young men and women who are serving and have sacrificed.
There will still be attacks. Al Qaeda's not defeated. But the progress has been immense. And to not recognize that, and why it happened, and how it happened, I think is really quite a commentary.
Here's part of his answer from question # 3 that they left on the cutting room floor and which exposes John McCain as not knowing what he's talking about once again about the war in Iraq.
I don't know how you respond to something that is such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel McFarlane (phonetic) was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that's just a matter of history. Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership, and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. I mean, to deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think, does a great disservice to young men and women who are serving and have sacrificed. They were out there. They were protecting these sheiks. We had the Anbar awakening. We now have a government that's effective...
It completely changes what he meant and actually said to Couric.
The story on their website is still solid, but the presentation on air was not and is outrageous. There must be some repercussions against this gaffe no matter who is involved and what happened. They need to come out and apologize for their ethical lapse.
Here's CBS's contact info:
TV Show CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
Producer (212) 975-3019 (212) 975-1893
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/eveningnews/main3420.shtml
Arensberg Chloe Producer, (212) 975-3691, (212) 975-1893
Contct CBS and demand they a) explain themselves on this egregious action. b) to hold those accountable.
evening@cbsnews.com http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/eveningnews/main3420.shtml
(corrected--the draft published when it wasn't finished earlier)
CBS used to have an ombudsman site called The Public Eye:
Public Eye's fundamental mission is to bring transparency to the editorial operations of CBS News - transparency that is unprecedented for broadcast and online journalism.
And what, exactly, is transparency? It has several aspects, but most simply it is this: the journalists who make the important editorial decisions at CBS News and CBSNews.com will now be asked to explain and answer questions about those decisions in a public forum.
It's not around anymore, but here's the old info. Public Eye: 'publiceye@cbs.com
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Whoa....someone should send CBS a very sternly worded letter by gawd!
Yes, Olbermann did, last night.
Damn that liberal media.
cbsnews demonstrates once again why they are the channel to turn to when you want a little smoke blown up your arse
Editing Q&A's at CBS go back decades. They ask a question, get an answer then edit the recording and insert an answer to another question. Depending on what they want as an outcome, the interviewee can be made to look like a genius or a fool. Which is McBush?
I imagine, like so many times before, when someone on McCain's campaign staff heard what he originally said, they wanted to correct it. Maybe they got McCain to tell CBS he had made a mistake in his answer so he needed to correct it. So CBS did a little snip and paste to the interview. Was Lindsey Graham or Lieberman with McCain when the original interview was conducted?
No matter what happened the result is the same and CBS has to take responsibility for their actions.
Okay Johnny Boy, you want media attention, this seems like a good story, do you still want that media attention?
Why am I not surprised . . . is there any honesty remaining on MSM new coverage? It's all about what The White House wants you to hear, not what is truly happening. We have, indeed, reached being a Fascist state!
I heard we were paying off the Awakening councils. But the assasinations against their leaders, and our trying to shaft the warlord on our promised payments has compromised the whole thing.
liberalNmoderation @ 1:
Letter to the Corinthians?
With the shit she said about Rathergate ..."dotting I's and crossingT's...to get it right" in '07 I can only hope that she will be hounded by everyone to cough up the real reason for the edit. This is beyond bias, this is propaganda ment to cover the gaffes of a person that is losing an election. Having watched only two episodes of this news(?) show since she took over, I hope that she will be replaced by someone else who is a reporter rather than someone who only job experence was to introduce Al Roker weather report and how to get your kid to eat their peas. Sad day for all the hard work that female reporters had to do to be taken as something more than a cute face and great pair of legs.
Sloppy Propaganda Work
If you're gonna edit the video you gotta edit the transcript.
.. idiots
Or did they want to get caught?
CBS has Standards?
I just saw CBS news say something to the effect that McCain credits the surge with the the awakening, but that the Obama campaign "claims" that the awakening started earlier.
Was what gawd said to Moses the first time anyone said, "Take two tablets and call him in the morning?"
Have the US media forgotten that a free press is one of the fundamental aspects required for democracy to work.
my jaw dropped when i heard that CBS altered an interview. So now what makes them any more credible than fox "news" or TMV for that matter.
they're just a tool for the party of their own interest.
Crooked Broadcasting System
katie couric gave us all a giant dose of comedy gold with this “interview” of john mccain.
before i went to bed last night i saw countdown, where olbermann read the transcript of the actual rsponse (which as we know was a befuddlement) but i caught the very late night CBS news where they played the “interview” as they ran it on the nightly news. i was stunned. i laid in bed and laughed.
if you judge the quality of mccain’s thinking by looking at the response that ended up on the cutting room floor and the responses that aired, he is completely out to lunch. personally, i think they would have been better off letting mccain take the hit for the timeline confusion in his original response because what they ran with was, i think, worse, because most people would have no idea that he is factually wrong but when you say this it’s pretty clear who’s directing US foreign policy, according to mccain’s understanding:
Couric: Sen. Obama describes Afghanistan as the central front on the war on terror. … Why do you believe Iraq is the central front in the war on terror?
McCain: Well, one reason is because that’s what Osama Bin Laden said that it was. He said, “Go to the country of the two rivers.”
That’s right, folks — acording to mccain, we are in iraq because bin laden told us to go there.
when was it that the united states began following the directions of bin laden? oh, that’s right, under the bush administration. and apparently mccain will be following bin laden’s instructions if HE becomes president.
way to go, mccain, couric and CBS!
uk visa @ 16:
No. They have decided that democracy is less profitable.
The irony is that the less the report the real news the more their ratings go down.
How can you describe the deliberate alteration and misrepresentation of the video and transcript as a 'gaffe'?
I just saw a little video clip of Joe Klein on another site. It seems as if this topic of John McCain's "gaffe" (really seems more than that!) on the surge-awakening will be on Anderson Cooper tonight and that Klein, David Gergen and others discuss McCain's remarks in a negative way so I am hoping this story "has legs" and that both McCain and CBS will be outed.
ysbaddaden @ 10:
Hehe...Corinthians...I guess it can be interpreted that way, LMAO!!!
man, mccain might be done by august.
I hope fux reports this editorial misconduct by cbs as part of their 'fair and balanced' coverage.
bg @ 14:
Slight clarification on my post ...that was my local CBS affiliate running a Katie Couric clip.
Rather than make a journalistic statement of historical fact, CBS is just making a point of disagreement on the issue.
Okay, CBS deserves a good thrashing for this. However, isn't it clear to everyone watching McCain that his gaffes, misspeaks, confusion, and lies are chronic and that he is powerless to stop? He will not have the editing services of CBS every time he does this, and he will continue to do it frequently because he can't help it!
It doesn't really matter if it's 'solid' or not any longer. They completely altered what he said in relation to certain questions. It's no longer a transcript, it's now a completely controlled story... and because of this, any valuable insight it would have offered to most people has been destroyed.
There's really no excuse for it except to try to make McCain look good. And why should a "news" outlet be doing that this to begin with? It comes off as very suspicious during an election cycle, particularly during a time when McCain has been having some problems.
I think this is a far bigger deal than it's being made out to be. It's not just a gaffe. This entire interview should be demeaned due to its handling.
It makes me scared as to how many other things they do this with.
...making "it" a point of disagreement.
Nada @ 21:
they did a pretty good job in the opening to this thread. :)
Norwood Woman @ 27:
I guess they'll have to edit the debates, too!
and this is a surprise to anyone for what reason. The real powers in the US-megacorporations- have been censoring what the sheeple(50% of adults in the US) read and see for a long time. It has become pretty obvious for the last few months that the MSM wants McCain for president. The only real question is why. The MSM has cover up McCains lies and "misspeakings" or if they couldn't cover them up, they insured that the story died after 1 news cycle. You don't believe me, or maybe think I am just paranoid. Check it out for yourself. Go back about 16 months, look in the C&L archives, look in the Daily Howler archives from all the way back in 99. See how the MSM wanted gwb to be president, look at how they treated Gore. Its the same thing now, except now it is even more out in the open. It is all in the first impression for the sheeple, that is how bush/cheney stage managed the big lie for the last 8 years. The republician party took a long look at what Goebbels did propaganda wise, and ran with it. Don't believe me? Go find the source material and see for yourselves just how much public opinion is being manipulated.
Wow, a republican owned news corp. lying to help McPussbucket. I'm shocked I tells ya, shocked.....
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!!
And faux continues to scream that the media is biased towards Obama
CBS............. Corporate Bulls**t Syndicate
Did you know that in addition to her strenuous duties as CBS News anchorette, Ms. Couric also publishes and reads from her "Katie Couric Notebook" on CBS radio affiliates?
Why, just the other day her 'notebook' was filled with the stains and nostalgia of Good Humor and Mr.Softie ice cream trucks as she pondered the effects of high fuel costs to those American institutions.
It's like she never left the banalities of the Today show.
Give that girl a double scoop - with extra sprinkles!
xoites defends Constitution @ 20:
.. depends on your definition of "democracy" ..
Government OF the People .. BY the Corporations .. FOR the Corporations
At least that's what our current government obviously believes.
It's the "democracy" they're trying to introduce into the Middle East.
It's the "democracy" that gives Americans our greatest freedoms - the freedom to choose from so many different brands of glittering toys and consumer objects.
That's the "democracy" that "our" military defends.
maya @ 37:
Wow...she's uh...pretty damn stupid I tells ya! That's just incredibly lame on every level.
When CBS is willing to edit comments that make news, you wonder to what lengths the will go. Editing a comment by an FDA spokesperson who tries to inform the reporter about tainted food? Editing a comment about unsafe toys? When the press starts manipulating the news in such a way and the viewers find out, they might then start to wonder if the ads airing during the news are also to be believed. Typically, television ads placed during a news show are trusted more by viewers. But if the news show continually "fixes" the news, and I was a company paying for commercial time, I would start shopping for a more reliable news show for my products.
We caught them this time, but how many times have they done this and how can we trust them now? We need those laws back on the media. We need the fairness doctrine act back on the tables.
Katie Couric also needs to be reprimanded for not saying anything about her work. No real journalist would allow this to happen to their story or assignment.
Right, and let's remember on one of the other CORPORATE/REPIGLICAN/MEDIA=MAFIA networks, NBC, we have the used BUT PLUG CALLED MRS. ALLAN GREENSPAN saying that obama is giving 'fake interviews' ............ my god our once great country has become so utterly corrupt because of the absolute corporate takeover of our country .. it has indeed become a completely fascist state ..........
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CBS puts a well stained McBBQ finger in the public's Eye.
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The gov of Texas just called CBS and asked if they could get a re-edit of the weather to give them sunshine and 80degrees.
Hey Katie next job, the Bush Libaray needs someone to edit his record for posterity.
Unfortunately this is what you get from a news division that thinks it's a good idea to have a television personality, not a journalist be number one on their nightly newscast. She's no better than the Fox parade of bimbos/mimbos.
The real story though is who ordered the edit? Was it the interviewer? Was it the interviewee? Was it someone at corporate?
MountainMan23 @ 38:
it is much bigger than "the current government"
when are the idiots of the msm going to realize they are being watched and scrutinized every minute of the day by olbermann, the daily show, the colbert report, and the internet. if they think they can slip something by, it won't work anymore. all they accomplish is to make themselves look more buffonish every time.
It's a win, win, win for the corporate media, not just CBS. In Obama they don't have the most liberal, progressive candidate but if they were to be as hard on McCain as they should it would be the most one sided election in history and that would hurt the ratings. They need a horse race. If McCain wins they can go on raking in the money had over foot. If Obama wins maybe not quite as much but they don't have to worry about real accountability for their actions. What they will try hard to manipulate is a closely watched nail biter until the end and they would prefer McCain but they can live with Obama.
I just sent this to the Public Eye:
CBS News makes a SECOND misstep in its broadcast of "McCain: 'We Will Come Home In Victory'"
Dear Public Eye Ombudsman,
I'm writing in reference to your story, "McCain: 'We Will Come Home In Victory'"
Comprehensive background on the ~first~ CBS News error on the story is here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/22/mccain-gets-history-of-th_n_114...
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/22/20713/9838/941/555376
HOWEVER, I just saw a ~second~ error, a CBS News clip in which Katie Couric says that McCain states the surge was responsible for the Sunni awakening, and that the Obama campaign "claims" the awakening came first.
What happened to journalistic reporting of background facts? Is CBS News really going to put the responsibility of the journalist in sorting out facts on the Obama campaign?
By doing this, you have unprofessionally and disingenuously put your viewers in the position of trying ascertain facts based on their personal assessment of the credibility of the candidates and their campaigns.
Can your viewers expect a correction, a clear statement of the sequence of events leading up to the Sunni awakening and the surge, and an explanation of how these errors happened? Can your viewers trust you to report the news and not control the news?
Sincerely,
My letter to CBS:
It is painful to write this. I have become aware that CBS has violated its own Standards and Practice policy by altering and airing an interview of John McCain where he made yet another mistake on his supposed specialty, "The Middle East". He incorrectly claimed in the CBS interview that the surge was responsible for the “Sunni Awakening in Anbar.” Then, in a move equal to government run propaganda efforts, CBS removed this from the aired interview.
Shameful.
ysbaddaden @ 10:
Not off base at all. Wasn't the Letter to the Corinthians to a city state know for its sexual excesses? Now here you have the whoring MSM.
That damn Liberal media.
Wow. Just wow....
They're editing out McCain's gaffes because there's too many of them, and their ratings will drop if people get too bored with McSame too soon..? That's the most benign answer I could even think of, and it's still pretty messed up. *sigh* And Katie Couric makes me regret humanity, while we're on the subject.......
CBS News has now lowered it's credibility to the level of Fox News. We now cannot believe anything said on their news program! Has the news been altered because McCain may be unhappy with them? Did Bush or Cheney give them a call?
We've been through the nightmare of a lifetime because the MSM let us down. If the media had reported the news with honestly and ethics, we could have battled Bush/Cheney and prevented all those american deaths in Iraq. This is dead serious, and I believe what CBS News did was criminal! What a disappointment!
Let's not forget. We PAID and still PAY the members of the Awakening Councils for what they do. Not only didn't they arise as a result of The Surge ™ but they came about because we started throwing money at the Sunnis. Anbar Province quieted long long before the Awakening and The Surge™ because (horrifically) it was ethnically cleansed.
The Foxification of CBS News is now complete!
I wonder what Walter Cronkite has to say?
It's time to call CBS's advertisers and let them know they are wasting their advertising dollars with the See BS network.
If enough people contact their advertisers, SeeBS will choose to walk a straight line.
52 naschkatze Hussein Says: ysbaddaden @ 10:
liberalNmoderation @ 1:
Whoa….someone should send CBS a very sternly worded letter by gawd!
Letter to the Corinthians?
Not off base at all. Wasn’t the Letter to the Corinthians to a city state know for its sexual excesses? Now here you have the whoring MSM.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
I'll take Lara Logan for $50 Alex...
This is somehow just another example of liberal media bias. I believe in fair and balanced reporting and not giving Barrack Hussein Obama a free ride.
LegallyBlonde @ 46:
I don't think Katie Couric is a "hands-on" anchor. This is just a prestige job for her. It was either the producer or CBS corporate. Who is Couric's producer?
This should be made a big issue... and the Obama campaign should hang this latest gaffe around McCain's neck.
And the MSM wonder why people are going to the Net for their news.
Just when you think they can't sink any lower, they do.
Sorry-I don't buy this McSame media bias thing. While I do agree that the coverage between Obama and McCain is not fair, I don't think it has anything to do with favoritism. The reality is, news is just like any other business. The only way to get people to tune in to soak up the advert dollars is to make the race artificially close, otherwise who would keep tuning in until November knowing that Obama is going to run away with the election (which he will). There is just too much BS that has taken place in the last few years and now with the economy tanking, people are looking for change. Wake up people, media is big business created to make you tune in so they can sell more advertising space to Tide.
Editing of any interview is serious malfeasance. I am very distressed at the growing trend to alter photos, conversations, interviews and other media reporting events. The ability to transform the news to whatever is preferred to make a political point is beyond editorializing. Congress is in the business of making laws and this bears their scrutiny. The scope of these practices need to be strictly assessed then regulated if the parties responsible hold any licenses or priorities (press corps) that provide coverage of factual events. I am wary of the probable end results where people are convicted or fired or maligned due to altered versions of reality.
I called. Got hung up on, called again, lodged a complaint and a request for CBS news to make a public statement. She said "Duly noted" but I don't think she wrote anything down.
My email to CBS evening@cbsnews.com
You guys really screwed up regarding your interview with John McCain. When you edit and slice and dice and change the original interview to say something that was not actually said and you get busted for doing it you lose credibility. Who watches a news program you cannot trust to tell the truth? When you are branded as an organization who plays lose with the facts it is very very difficult to get that credibility back. This is why I NEVER watch Fox News except for comic relief. CBS is quickly headed for the same trash heap. As long as Katie Couric is the anchor I will not be watching with any trust and without trust there is not reason to watch at all. I suggest you address this problem soon. It is such a shame to see how far you have fallen since the ouster of Dan Rather.
Sounds like CBS is modelling their "work" on Der Speigel's "interview authorization policy."
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/23/confirmed-malikis-timetable-end...
Did Mcsame realize they were going to correct his gaff before they broadcast it to the world? Thank computer geeks for the www.
McBlinkey was overheard addressing Katie Couric just after the interview:
"I told that C*NT, Katie Couric that if she didn't edit my senile response I'd start doing my interviews with a younger, more attractive and richer anchor!"
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 35:
Just regarding your comment because it was just so ironic:
A couple nights ago I was listening to Greta van Trashcan on Faux News on Sirius Radio because there was a commercial during the Mike Malloy program and she was astonished, astonished I tell you that the New York Times did not print McAsshole’s Op Ed rant against Obama. She had on some mouth complaining how The Times were so liberal blah blah blah and could not be trusted etc etc and then they were done and Greta says: “We will be right back with Karl Rove.”
I cannot believe the audacity of this Faux News outfit. It boggles the mind that there are actually people who suck this up.
paranoia @ 41:
I was just thinking that same thing. Could this be the very first time this has happened?
pissed off patricia @ 72:
Pleas please send CBS your these exact thoughts!!! It is so easy to do.
evening@cbsnews.com
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 71:
LOL.
The NYT cannot be trusted....even though that's the first place McGrampa went to published is Op-Lie. Wow.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 73:
Sorry to quot my own comment but the word "credibility" is a very good word to use with these shitheads.
Interview bites get spliced and diced all the time on various documentary TV shows you see on Discovery, History, NatGeo, VH-1, etc.
But in the context of a "news interview", it's unforgivable and violates journalistic ethics big time. Everyone involved who knew about the splicing and approved should lose their jobs.
lovely. funny how when mc cain makes freshman mistakes, it's an aberation unworthy of informing the public--over and over, with commentary from horrified village elders, for a week. it's just mc cain being mc cain. mixing up sunni and shia and who iran supports not once but 3 times in a day---i'd say that's pretty much PROOF mc cain is not the expert the press wants us to believe. no need to explore it further.
seems our expert mc cain should have this one down, too. do you think that there will come a time the village becomes anywhere as horrified about these "senior moments" to take a week discussing the clear signs mc cain's gaffs could be early onset Alzheimer's, as they were about lapel pins and angry ministers? do you think they think average Americans are concerned about mc cains repeated gaffs they should run story after strory on them? we all know we are very concerned about lapel pins and angry ministers--i saw it on the news for weeks.
the good news for obama: reverand right was the media's dean scream. they tried with all their might to destroy obama with that horse shit. the slam dunk, WMD, must invade now or die case these corporate republican schills made to terrorize us into war have cost them all credibility. even now, when it's clear they were played by bush/cheney lies, they refuse to push for impeachment--it's like they were in on the scam all along.
now we have mc cain calling obama a traitor who'd lose a war and sell out america for power. wonder how many times they will repeat that one. again, the spade rears it's ugly black face. does that sound like anyone you know? is there any american ideal bush hasn't sold for power?
and this just in--mc cain implies obama not so offended by jewish holocaust that he would have prevented it. do you think the village will express any outrage on that? do you think they might run a week of stories on the theme, do we want 4 more years of divide and conquer character assassination politics? is mc cain intent on tearing at the festering wound of rovian, feed the hate politics, for political gain?
my guess is it will barely get a mention in the press.
Just sent CBS a couple of sentences:
The duty of the media is to inform the public by way of truth. During election season, the public in turn makes an INFORMED decision regarding to whom their vote will be cast. I am APPALLED by the discrepancy between Katie Courac's interview with John McCain that aired on national television and the actual interview that took place concerning McCain's reaction to the surge. You all have edited McCain's words to create the appearance that this man knows what he is saying!!! These journalism practices are an abomination and I demand accountability for your actions in attempting to skew circumstances and in turn skew my "informed" decision.
paranoia @ 41:
We caught them this time, but how many times have they done this and how can we trust them now? We need those laws back on the media. We need the fairness doctrine act back on the tables.
72 pissed off patricia Says:
I was just thinking that same thing. Could this be the very first time this has happened?
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Definitely. Just this once. Never did it before. Not gonna do it again.
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THIS is an example of "disservice to the men and women in uniform who have given such a great sacrifice" to distort information to make this crazy old fart look like he is credible.
I am appalled at this network, and see they have taken another step to being the propaganda system for this f*cked up government and this sinking country.
God help us. Whoever was responsible for the editing deserves to be canned.
Poor Katie. I remember when she was a legitimate interviewer. Now she's just another tired Barbara Walters. She'll probably be showing up on the View anyday now. That is about the proper place for her. Or maybe as a fluffer in Phil Gramm's next film.
I tried calling two different numbers at CBS. I found a person who stated that they were "under orders" to transfer all comments to the consumer comment line. A live person refused to talk with me.
I never watch CBS...now I know why. The only person worth listening to ever is on Face the Nation, good ol' Bob S.
The tools of fascism.
My email to CBS:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I'm writing to express my unwillingness to trust CBS news journalistic practices after the deceptive editing of the John McCain interview.
When an audience hears a question asked by a journalist, they should hear the interviewees response to that question instead of the response to another separate question.
Journalistically, who is CBS to decide what is the better answer to the question than the one supplied by the interviewee?
I'm not sure what the motive was for this editing, but it exposes what can go wrong when those trusted with journalistic integrity decide they can put forth a better version of the truth than the events that actually transpired.
I'll never trust your network's journalism again without a public apology and firing of the individuals who made and/or approved this violation of all journalistic decency.
The oft-mocked Fox News Network has a slogan that says, "We report, you decide." Apparently the slogan for CBS News is "We report, we decide."