Working Life

Yesterday, after one week of silence and stonewalling, Lesley Stahl’s name disappeared from the list of Advisors to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. But, this story is not quite over. CBS continues to stonewall over the circumstances of Stahl’s service on the Peterson Foundation Advisors’ board — which was a blatant violation of basic ethical journalistic standards and CBS’ own ethical guidelines. Let us refer to this as Stahlgate — and as usual it’s the cover-up that is the worst part of this saga.

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A week ago, I wrote about Lesley Stahl’s obvious,no-brainer, significant conflict of interest. I wrote to CBS asking for an explanation. Crickets. Are we going to let this nonsense continue

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Earlier today, I wrote about Leslie Stahl’s serious breach of basic journalistic standards due to her service on the advisory board of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. I’ve followed this up with a letter to CBS’ management seeking an explanation.

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    No surprise: the members of the WGA voted to pull down their picket signs and go back to work pending a vote on the actual deal. This from today’s Los Angeles Times: More than 90% of the 3,775 writers who cast ballots in Los Angeles and New York voted to immediately end the work […]

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    No surprise: the members of the WGA voted to pull down their picket signs and go back to work pending a vote on the actual deal. This from today’s Los Angeles Times: More than 90% of the 3,775 writers who cast ballots in Los Angeles and New York voted to immediately end the work […]

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    As most of you know by now, the Writers Guild of America officially announced that it has reached a deal with Big Media to bring an end to its strike. That happened over the weekend (and yours truly has tried to stick to a no-weekend blogging rule for sanity sake) so I thought I’d […]

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    As most of you know by now, the Writers Guild of America officially announced that it has reached a deal with Big Media to bring an end to its strike. That happened over the weekend (and yours truly has tried to stick to a no-weekend blogging rule for sanity sake) so I thought I’d […]

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    Use caution…no I’m not referring to those of you who are celebrating the Giants AMAZING win (hey, I’m a New Yorker) nor am I suggesting you be wary of the polls about Super Tuesday (this is worth reading). But, we should be cautious about believing that the strike by the Writers Guild of America […]

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    Use caution…no I’m not referring to those of you who are celebrating the Giants AMAZING win (hey, I’m a New Yorker) nor am I suggesting you be wary of the polls about Super Tuesday (this is worth reading). But, we should be cautious about believing that the strike by the Writers Guild of America […]

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    Sure, there are a lot of reporters who could qualify for the title "worst reporter ever"? Judith Miller, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Friedman, David Broder…there is a large class of people who claim to practice journalism but seem to be caught in the grips of gullibility, conventional wisdom, their own ideology or simply the desire […]

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