On Sunday evening 60 Minutes debuted a segment on Benghazi that shocked absolutely no one but Senator Lindsey Graham, and according to a Fox News correspondent the key witness of the 60 Minutes report asked for money when Fox was in contact with him.
via Media Matters
An October 27 CBS 60 Minutes segment on the September 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. facility featured an interview with “Morgan Jones,” described by the network’s Lara Logan as a “former British soldier” and “security officer who witnessed the attack” who had adopted that pseudonym “for his own safety.”
Asked by Fox News anchor Jenna Lee what information the “Jones” interview brought to the story, correspondent Adam Housley said that he had previously spoken to the man “a number of times and then we stopped speaking to him when he asked for money.”
Fox News has a history of attempting to discredit reports they don’t like, however Fox News was clearly enthralled by the 60 Minutes report so I don’t think that’s the case here.
It’s an open question if CBS paid “Morgan Jones” for his time.
Not to go off on a tangent, but network news is becoming almost as bad as cable news.
