60 minutes - I want to destroy my TV tonight

[superpatriotman]

Did anyone else see the Fake News piece including an accepting whitewash of scumbag phony Mike 'Pizzagate' Cernovich?

Scott Pelley had this turd dead to rights in an interview and behind the scenes look at his shittty apartment-based fake news enterprise, and either edited out a well-deserved journalistic spanking or, more likely, let him off the hook entirely with a wink and a nod.

Real crap journalism tonight, 60 Minutes.

[Blue_true]

1. The thing that I hated was their claim that the Left is doing it equally.

They only showed rightwing instances.

[frazzled]

5. No, they gave one "example" from the so-called left

And it was in no way classifiable as fake news. It was satire, pure and simple. The headline ran something like: "Colonoscopy reveals Trump has brain tumor." I mean, really, 60 Minutes. Can you not perceive the difference between satire and insidious fake news?

[mountain grammy]

17. No. Did they really? With a straight face?

I gave up on 60 minutes a few years ago..

[milestogo]

2. That was the guy talking about Hillary Clinton's Parkinsons Disease?

Lying turd. I turned it off.

[mercuryblues]

3. I didn't catch the whole

interview. I do have it recorded to watch in the Am. I was shocked when the said the name of his website. It is so far out there I thought it was satire. Nope he believes what he posts.

[wishstar]

4. I caught Pelley's remark about hundreds of fake websites both on right and left- as if it's equal

and he showed a couple of websites with fake stories of Trump caught taking cocaine and Trump dropping out of race, to prop up the his notion of equivalency between both sides when it comes to fake news. I didn't watch the entire segment, but what I saw didn't seem to include any mention of use of fake stories almost exclusively by Repub politicians like Trump to prop up their support and spread lies about their opponents.

[superpatriotman]

6. Fake news is a waste of energy and votes

Especially when trying to sway voters to do the right thing because 'Pizzagate'

[MrScorpio]

7. Missed it

For good reason, it seems.

[MicaelS]

8. Saw it, thought it was good for exposing..

The issue, and exposing that turd.

[old guy]

9. I stopped watching them many years ago.

They really aren't worth the time.

[jrthin]

10. Many Of These On-Air

Personalities are rich repugs, so their point of view on these news stories seem strained.

[58Sunliner]

11. They lost me 5 years ago with those false equivalencies.

[pangaia]

12. Is 60 Minutes still alive?

I thought it died with Beat The Clock.

[sharedvalues]

13. Flat-earth journalism

http://archives.cjr.org/campaign_desk/paul_krugman_on_journalistic_b.php

Some of us have long complained about the cult of ‘balance,’ the insistence on portraying both parties as equally wrong and equally at fault on any issue, never mind the facts. I joked long ago that if one party declared that the earth was flat, the headlines would read “Views Differ on Shape of Planet.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/hard-truths-for-the-trade-in-flat-earth-news-780385.html

"Davies believes "we are deep into a third age of falsehood and distortion in which the primary obstacles to truth-telling lie inside the newsrooms".

At the root of the problem lies commercial pressure, but not the ideological pressure blamed by Marxist academics anxious to portray the press as an establishment conspiracy. Davies blames the more insidious influence of media conglomerates that prefer profit to political influence and pare editorial staff to the bone to achieve it."

[Sunlei]

14. I always found it amazing people would believe fictions-Hillary had a secret life of Ninja Assassin

Ninja Assassin Hillary,
Runs child trafficker ring with pizza parlor front,
'secret server' computer expert Hillary

And time to run a 24/7- 7 day a week campaign with 1-3 live campaign speeches a day for a year straight and be portrayed by fiction stories as sick and fragile.

Some folks will believe anything that makes it to their email/ twitter/facebook

[Sunlei]

15. I have to watch it and see. I like 60 minutes, wish it was 2 hours so the stories would be 'fuller'.

[mantis49]

16. I haven't watched 60 Minutes since Lara Logan kept her job after the fake

Benghazi report.

[sarcasmo]

19. Same. Scared my wife, yelling at the TV when the Logan story aired.

[Archae]

18. That guy Cernovich came out looking really bad...

Especially when he desperately tried to justify his fake stories, continuing the lie.

"Hillary has Parkinsons! Cuz I said so!"

Cernovich is also a "star" in the "alt-right," many of his stories are racial in tone.