Business as usual for 60 Minutes

Bernard Goldberg, who blew the whistle on bias at CBS news and the rest of the "mainstream" media, offers an excellent analysis of Mike Wallace's recent interview of Iranian "President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in today's Wall Street Journal. In the piece Goldberg describes how in a similar 1979 interview Wallace dismantled the the Ayatollah Khomeini. Goldberg explains that while Wallace is still sharp, that Ahmadinejad is no Khomeini and that he was able to to do an "end around" the difficult questions. Goldberg admits that "...all a reporter can do is ask the tough question and let the subject answer. If he doesn't you can try again. But at some point, you have to move on."

But Goldberg adds that what Wallace and 60 minutes should have done is "...found some people who know the real Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--not the made-for-television, Mr. Rogers version. They should have found some people to fill in the blanks; people who could paint an alternative picture of this man. They should have rounded up a few Iranians living in exile--the ones who must have been throwing shoes at their television sets during the interview--and asked them what really makes him tick."

Bernie, I hear you man. I hear you. But if CBS (and all the other networks and The New York Times and The Washington Post) haven't done the same thing with fidel castro over the last 47 years, how could you expect them to start now?

Business as usual in the "mainstream" media.

Henry "Conductor" Gomez

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at August 15, 2006 12:29 PM

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