[See NewsBusters for more.] The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday offered breathtakingly little interest into one of the biggest fake news outrages in recent years. Talking to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner about the 50th anniversary of the magazine’s founding, the show’s co-hosts managed just two questions on Rolling Stone’s false accusation of rape at the University of Virginia. Gayle King dismissed the bogus story because it “happens so rarely” at the publication. As long as Rolling Stone falsely smears someone as a rapist on occasion, but not regularly, it’s not a big deal? It wasn’t until the end of the seven minute segment that co-host Charlie Rose gingerly brought it up: “So, 50 years concludes highs and lows. Where do you put the University of Virginia reporting?”
