'60 Minutes' Source Confirms Locust Fork Journal Story
February 8th, 2008Another inside source from the CBS News ‘60 Minutes’ magazine show just called from New York to confirm the accuracy of what has already been reported here. There is no truth to the rumor, traveling around the Net in e-mail and on the Web on some blogs, that “CBS corporate” is going to buckle under pressure and not run an investigative story on the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
“This happens all the time,” the official source said, who insisted on anonymity since the network does not comment on shows that are in the works. When a show is done and people find out about it and it doesn’t run right away, he said, people who do not understand the news process start rumors that the show is going to be “killed.”
“It makes a good blog,” he said, laughing. “You will see the show, probably in the next month. But I can’t guarantee that.”
It depends on a lot of things, including other breaking news developments.
Now, back to other important investigations. Real investigative journalism takes time and resources. Every investigative story that has ever appeared on a TV show started with a real reporter on the ground somewhere doing the real work to crack the story.
There are many novices out there in Blogland who want you to think they are doing that work. Some of them reside in New York and Washington and want you to think they have the scoop because they are there.
But for anyone who wants to see the definitive work on this story, we invite you into the archives here. And maybe this will help those other bloggers who can’t seem to nail down the timeline of events in this story.
Jill Simpson’s Affidavit May Help Justice Prevail in the Siegelman, Scrushy Case
Scott Horton: Justice in Alabama
Justice Off the Tracks in Alabama
The Nation: A Whistleblower’s Tale
If you just can’t get enough of the story, here’s the link to our entire archives on the case going all the way back to the Scrushy trial in Birmingham, which I covered for the New York Times.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
No guarentee it MIGHT run next month? Bummer.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
News happens, they say…
Remember what Walter Cronkite used to say, “And that’s the way it is…”
February 9th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I guess now that the Super bowl,
election and everything else is
out of the way, there may be time for
the show! It is such a shame that
this man has to sit in jail, while
his right to an appeal bond is
NOT granted!!!The crew in Washington
has time in the delay to cover-up
any and all of Mr. Rove’s dirty work!
Why can’t these men be let out on an
appeal bond? This transcript thing has
not got a dam thing to do with being
Don or Scrushy’s fault. It has been too
long now.This is the most unfair case
in the history of law. Let these men out
to go home now!!!