Fed: Carleton admits he lied to 60 Minutes viewers

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Fed: Carleton admits he lied to 60 Minutes viewers

Veteran 60 Minutes reporter RICHARD CARLETON has admitted he misled and lied to viewersby showing footage from another mass grave to flesh out a story about the massacre ofSrebrenica.

Mr CARLETON and the 60 Minutes team are suing the ABC, former Media Watch presenterPAUL BARRY and then executive producer PETER MCEVOY for defamation over two Media Watchsegments in July 2000.

In the programs, Mr BARRY said a 60 Minutes story to mark the fifth anniversary ofthe massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica could have been plagiarism, but was certainly lazyjournalism.

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