Is CBS's 60 Minutes trying to capture the title for lowest standards in the news industry? We already know about their questionable coverage driven by political considerations — the supposedly stolen tons of Iraq weapons, Abu Ghraib, and, at CBS itself, the forged Bush service documents.

But there's a more than a record of inaccuracy, there's also a cultural problem there, because not only do they show shoddy tradecraft on major issues, they are also abysmal at factually reporting even small things. I mean, little fluffy news features utterly without a political denominator. It's so pointlessly corrupt, I have to wonder if they lie because they like to lie. Media watcher Mervin Block took a professional news editor's look at some of '60 Minutes'' claims in a story on a simple opera matter, and was appalled. 

In every sense of the word, '60 Minutes' is unbelievable.

A.M. Mora y Leon   10 31 04