Media Tenor

African Reports Focus on Disease and Wildlife

CBS’s 60 Min­utes has an “African prob­lem.” After being lam­bast­ed three weeks ago in a pub­lic let­ter to the orga­ni­za­tion, penned by Colum­bia School of Jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor and for­mer New York Times reporter Howard French and signed by over 150 oth­er jour­nal­ists and pro­fes­sors, CBS is strug­gling to defend its cov­er­age of the Ebo­la out­break. The letter…