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1. December 6, 2011 07:31 PM

   60 Minutes’ Tough Piece on Crisis Prosecutions

   Kroft on the lack thereof

   By Ryan Chittum

   A tip of the cap to 60 Minutes for an excellent report Sunday asking about the lack of criminal prosecutions on Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis. Steve Kroft gets a half hour of TV time primarily to talk to two whistleblowers from Countrywide and Citigroup who say they witnessed crimes by management at their respective firms....

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2. March 2, 2011 05:40 PM

   SI/CBS College Football Investigation Lacks Context

   Their stats on player arrests aren't so eye-opening after all

   By Ryan Chittum

   Sports Illustrated and CBS News are out with a big investigation into crime in college football. They looked at the teams in last season's preseason Top 25 poll and pulled the records of all the players to find out how many had been arrested and/or convicted and to rank the worst teams. Its eye-opening finding: Seven percent of college football...

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3. August 23, 2012 11:00 AM

   CBS goofs up the green beat

   Network fails to disclose M. Sanjayan’s affiliation and ties to source

   By Curtis Brainard

   Only two months after hiring him, CBS News has already botched a report from its new science and environment contributor, allowing him to interview a fire ecologist from The Nature Conservancy without mentioning that the contributor is the lead scientist at the very same group. When CBS gave M. Sanjayan the job in May, a variety of critics argued that...

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4. June 1, 2012 06:50 AM

   CBS News hires M. Sanjayan

   Lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy to cover science, environment

   By Curtis Brainard

   Network news got a little better this month. CBS News announced in early May that it had hired M. Sanjayan, lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy, as its science and environmental contributor, filling a slot that’s been vacant for almost two and a half years. Sanjayan will cover a broad range of topics across multiple platforms and contribute to CBS...

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5. June 28, 2011 03:45 PM

   CBSNews.com’s “United States of Influence” Tallies National Frustration

   By Joel Meares

   CBSNews.com today launched a new series titled, “United States of Influence,” which looks at why Americans feel so frustrated with the elected officials charged with representing them. The first entry in the series, written by CBSNews.com’s senior political reporter Brian Montopoli, looks at an unsurprising CBS News poll that finds “many Americans feel alienated from government and unhappy with...

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6. October 21, 2011 01:50 PM

   The Human Faces behind the Social Security Rhetoric

   Good work from CBS News

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Finally, a mainstream media outlet has broken through the dominant narrative about Social Security and showed what the program means in dollars and cents to the fifty-five million people who rely on its monthly checks. You would never know that Social Security had any connection to real human beings from the media’s emphasis on gigantic numbers and political scaremongering about...

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7. July 3, 2012 05:00 PM

   The MSM overlooks a Supreme Court scoop

   CBS's Jan Crawford says Roberts flip-flopped on healthcare reform; why aren't other outlets biting?

   By Hazel Sheffield

   There was some pretty spectacular misreporting last week by the likes of CNN and Fox News on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and now there’s an even bigger controversy—CBS reporter Jan Crawford reported on Sunday that the Court had sprung a leak. “Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative...

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