"60 Minutes" and "Pissing Off the Left"

Lloyd Grove, one of my old Crawdaddy writers, at the Daily Beast joins those saying "60 Minutes" hasn't done nearly enough to probe its Benghazi scandal.  And why not?

One salient difference from the 2004 experience is that nine years ago, the network was being targeted by an organized campaign by conservative activists; this time, the attackers are largely liberal bloggers and press critics like David Brock of Media Matters. “It’s a lot safer pissing off the left than pissing off the right,” said a veteran journalist with hard experience in these issues. “The left raps your knuckles, and the right cuts off your hand and serves it to you for lunch.”

But the main reason will be because many media experts/writers--such as Nicholas Lemann, quoted by Grove--just don't think it's that big a deal and CBS just needs to do a little tinkering.  I'll write more on this later.