60 Minutes Ignores Warnings, Broadcasts Faulty Left-Wing Data on Drug
April 2nd, 2007 11:18 PM
The National Center for Public Policy Research's health care senior policy analyst, David Hogberg, contacted the CBS television show "60 Minutes" five times last week -- by telephone, fax and e-mail -- to warn the show's producers that a report by the leftie big-government health care lobby group Families USA, which "60 Minutes" planned to highlight in Sunday's show, rested on faulty data.
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’60 Minutes’ Iraq War Report Exaggerates Level of Military Dissens
February 25th, 2007 9:23 PM
As NewsBusters previewed here and here, CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired a segment Sunday dealing with a small group of American troops that have signed a petition called “Appeal For Redress.” Simply put, these soldiers want U.S. troops to come home from Iraq immediately.Unfortunately, the piece exaggerated the size of this group, while also misrepresenting military opinion of the war (video available…
Sean Hannity Slams CBS and ’60 Minutes’ ‘Hit Piece’ About Iraq
February 24th, 2007 1:59 PM
As NewsBuster Brent Baker reported Friday, CBS’s “60 Minutes” will be airing a piece this Sunday about a small number of American troops in Iraq that have signed a petition in favor of immediate withdrawal. Fox News’s Sean Hannity is planning to present the opposite side of this issue on the March 4 installment of that network’s “Hannity’s America,” and spoke about it on Friday’s “Hannity &…
