60 Minutes' Benghazi Apology

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 12, 2013

CBS News chief Jeff Fager has called the 60 Minutes report on Benghazi "as big a mistake as there has been" in the program's history. Media Matters for America Senior Fellow and author of  Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press (Free Press, 2009), Eric Boehlert, explains why, and describes what was missing from Lara Logan's apology over the weekend.

Watch: Lara Logan Apology on 60 Minutes

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