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Is CBS getting its news straight from the jihadis now?

CBS Uses Al Qaeda Video?
Blackfive

CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent in Baghdad, Lara Logan, first appeals for help in getting a key story about the battles around Haifa street put on the CBS Evening News instead of just published on the CBS News website...when it appears that part of her footage is straight from Al Qaeda. ...

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Lara Logan & al Qaeda: What's the 411, CBS?
Michelle Malkin

First, read this heart-rending appeal from Lara Logan complaining about CBS News refusing to air one of her Haifa Street reports, which highlighted a masked "Haifa Street resident" who "blamed the fighting on the U.S. Here's a screen shot of her source: [image]

CBS didn't air the video on the nightly news because it was "too graphic for an evening news audience" according to a CBS News spokesperson. But it did put the video on its website.
And it's up at YouTube: [video link]

There may be an even greater reason for CBS not to have put Logan's report on the nightly news.

Nibras Kazimi took a closer look:

The footage “obtained by CBS” is identical to that put out by Al-Qaeda. But Logan makes no mention of Al-Qaeda’s video and does not address the implication that the footage she used was off an Al-Qaeda video. And if it’s not off the Al-Qaeda video, then how did she get footage identical to the one used by Al-Qaeda? This needs to be explained.  ...

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Jules C: New Media on Old Media

Posted by Bill Faith on January 30, 2007 at 04:46 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Media Malpractice | Permalink

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