Posted on 05/20/2007 4:43:28 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau
In a hit piece on the U.S. Coast Guard, CBS 60 Minute's Steve Kroft made the following statement:
"This is a story the Coast Guard didn’t want 60 Minutes to tell. It refused to make Commandant Thad Allen or any other officer available for an interview."
At the very end of the hit piece, when most viewers were in the bathroom, or in the kitchen making a sandwitch or getting another beer, Kroft made this statement:
Late last week, after our story had been completed, the coast guard finally offered to make Commandant Thad Allen available, but only for a live unedited interview, which we declined to do.
What is the root of your fears?
You've GOT to be kidding. When a reporter gets on the scene of an accident/crime-whatever, they've got HOURS of footage...
How do you think you get your evening news...hours of raw footage??
It is EDITED...get a clue....
I have not watched those lying ba$tards at 60 Minutes for at least 30 years. I have not missed a thing and better for it.
If it was about “Deepwater” it has in fact been pretty disastrous in many aspects, and not something that 60 Minutes invented.
And high levels of the USCG has to take the blame (along with contractors) - they’ve proven unable to manage the project effectively.
An attempt to modify 110’ cutters by extending them to 123’ ended in disaster as the hulls began to warp and the 8 that were modified had to be taken out of service and discarded, for example.
It’s best not to wacth ‘60 Minutes’ at all, be it a liberal talking points or the Mike Nifong case.
Care about what?
Making sure you get to spin things your way?
"Fake, but accurate" lives!!!!
>>>”You’ve GOT to be kidding. When a reporter gets on the scene of an accident/crime-whatever, they’ve got HOURS of footage . . . It is EDITED...get a clue...”<<<
This was not a crime scene. It was a carefully orchestrated hit-piece on the U.S. Coast Guard. The fact that the dishonorable congressman Gene Taylor was one of the “hitters” should have been at least your first clue. Anyway, get a clue.
60 Minutes 'Unfair & Unbalanced' ... so what else is new? Aside from the fact they actually pointed out their liberal bias.
Ummm....ok.
So they were claiming low-ranking Coastguardsmen were out strangling kittens or something?
Or was it about the "Deepwater" procurement project and the mistakes made by high-level USCG management?
Like I said, if it's the latter, Deepwater is already a legendary procurement fiasco that's been well covered as such by the Defense media - if anything 60 Minutes is simply late to the pile-on party.
There is editing an interview and then there is shaping an interview. If you don’t know the difference or refuse to acknowledge the difference I think you are in the wrong business, unless your business is shaping and not editing.
I didn’t happen to see it, I wish someone would actually say what the USCG was being criticized for :-)
>>>If it was about “Deepwater” it has in fact been pretty disastrous in many aspects, and not something that 60 Minutes invented.<<<
Engineering design problems are not unique. In fact, they are rather common. Engineering design incorporates a certain amount of trial-and-error because every design is unique. Further, the hired contractors have great reputations (of course, they not flawless, as CBS points out every chance it gets). My problem with this CBS hit piece is CBS attempted to present the CG Commandant as a weasel.
60 minutes always refuses requests for unedited interviews. I’ll leave you to ponder why.
You are another complete ***. I was responding to idiot who say NO interviews NO news items, etc., etc., should be edited. Please read the thread before you spew. Thanks!
Please tell us more detail.
I was involved with the original 110 ft boats..Bollinger Shipyard etc.
There's "usual development problems" and then there are "fiascos" and I'm well aware of the difference, though the mainstream media doesn't and portrays them as all equivalent.
Trust me - much of Deepwater, and the Navy's LPD-17 San Antonio, and the Littoral Combat Ship have been fiascos, not just your usual big-defense-budget problems and cost overruns.
The origin of the USCG's problems was it being criminally underfunded for such a long time they needed a massive procurement project to replace everything at once, which they were incapable of managing effectively and for which they made a wide variety of terrible decisions.
You're much better off reading trade publications like Aviation Leak, err, Week, Defense News, Defense Industry Daily, etc, though, than watching 60 Minutes or the MSM for such things, of course.
Makes it sound like they were afraid of what the Coast Guard commander might say, and without editing, they can't change his comments.
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