When journalism gets a black eye
Subtitle: scandals and the Fourth Estate
By: ABC News Productions
Contributors: Wooten, James T.; Thornburgh, Dick; Boccardi, Louis D.; Rather, Dan; ABC News Productions; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Series: JRN 320 (NU course); COM 380 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 23
ISBN-13: 9781421331140
Subjects: Documentary films; Reporters and reporting; Investigative reporting; Journalism; Films for the hearing impaired; CBS Television Network; 60 minutes (Television program)
Other titles: Scandals and the Fourth Estate; Fallout: the CBS report; Nightline (Television program)
Description: "What are the long-term effects of journalism scandals? When the public's trust is damaged, what can the Fourth Estate do to repair it? And how is technology affecting journalism in the 21st century? To speak to those points, this ABC News program examines the notorious "60 Minutes" (Wednesday edition, September 8, 2004) incident involving George W. Bush's National Guard record. Anchor Dan Rather claimed to have documents showing that Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian had declared First Lieutenant Bush unfit for flight status for failure to obey an order to submit to a physical examination; the Killian files were later proven to be forgeries. Two related journalistic issues are briefly discussed: the growing influence of new media (it was a blog that first questioned the authenticity of the anti-Bush documents) and the opportunism of right-wing media, which accused CBS of pursuing a political agenda in reporting such a story at the height of the 2004 presidential campaign."--Container.
Notes: Title from DVD surface and from the Films for the Humanities website.

Also available as streaming video.

Originally broadcast as "Fallout: the CBS report" on the television program Nightline on January 10, 2005.

Anchorman Chris Bury ; pre-recorded footage of Dan Rather, John F. Kerry, and Bill Burkett ; interviews with Leslie Moonves, Richard Thornburgh, and Louis D. Boccardi ; voice-over coverage by Jim Wooten of ABC News.

DVD.

Close-captioned.