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Error of the Year: ’60 Minutes’ Benghazi report
As is often the case with Error of the Year, the award is given partly because of the mistake itself, and partly because of the mistake’s fallout.
In late October “60 Minutes” aired a report that called into question the official version of what happened when the U.S. diplomatic compound was attacked in Benghazi, Libya. At the core of the story was a source, Dylan Davies, who worked as a security contractor for the State Department. Davies had a book coming out that purported to share new facts about what happened that night, and what he did.
Problem one: he lied to the show about what he did and saw, thereby making a core piece of evidence in the “60 Minutes” counter-narrative false and undercutting the entire segment...
Many times during the past year, truth was the victim in high-profile reporting screw ups. Read 'em and weep.