The Blaze, Glenn Beck’s TV network, on Wednesday is set to premiere an investigative news magazine program called “For the Record,” BuzzFeed reported Tuesday.
The show is inspired by “60 Minutes,” and the first episode will focus on the state of the intelligence community after Sept. 11, 2001. According to BuzzFeed’s report, the program is an effort to establish a reputation of credible reporting on the conservative news network.
More from BuzzFeed’s summary of the program:
The episode doesn’t break any news: The sources have all told their tales to other outlets in the past, including The Baltimore Sun, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. But nor does it commit any immediately apparent journalistic transgressions in the name of partisanship, allowing its subjects to lay blame on George W. Bush’s administration for implementing warrantless wire-taps, and generally allowing intelligence agencies to cross constitutional lines while he was in office. Beck’s talent for showmanship helps make it a compelling hour of TV, while the show’s seven producers and editors manage to keep it (for the most part) on the journalistic straight-and-narrow.
