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CBS Complicit in News Coverup (Lara Logan)
The Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, February 17, 2011 | Michael Graham

Posted on 02/17/2011 7:29:30 AM PST by kristinn

Dateline — Egypt:

“[60 Minutes] correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, ‘Jew! Jew!’ as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s main square Friday.”

Powerful reporting on an important story. Two problems: It didn’t run until yesterday, and CBS didn’t run it. The quote is from the New York Post. And it was The Wall Street Journal that reported “the separation and assault lasted roughly 20 to 30 minutes.”

But CBS? They sat on their own story. For five days, as reporters reveled amid giddy celebrations in Tahrir Square, and as President Obama praised President Obama’s handling of the Egyptian crisis, CBS reported nothing.

Only when other media had the story did CBS break the news that its own chief foreign correspondent was the victim of “a brutal and sustained sexual assault.”

Five days of silence — not even “60 Minutes” coverage of the Egypt story. No mention of the “mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy” who attacked their own reporter.

How is that not news?

SNIP

Having 200 “good guys” gang assault a female reporter while screaming “Jew! Jew!” doesn’t fit the narrative. Is that why CBS sat on the story?

Or is it the cultural issue? A rape in a bar is a sex crime. But a pack of political protesters who rape a “Jew” in public is a story about culture.

SNIP

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animals; dogs; egypt; laralogan; logan; pigs
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To: kristinn
Here is a picture of Lara Logan shortly before she was raped..Now does this blouse look like she is trying to get raped..I do agree she should have know what savages were out there and worn a Berka..Not! Attack: CBS News correspondent Lara Logan pictured shortly before she was assaulted in Tahrir Square, Cairo, while reporting there. There is no suggestion any of the men pictured were involved in the attack Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357394/Lara-Logan-attack-CBS-reporter-leaves-hospital-Cairo-mob-sex-assault.html#ixzz1EF7bBGp3
101 posted on 02/17/2011 10:43:35 AM PST by PLD
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To: CT-Freeper

Just third-worlders acting accordingly to a clueless Western woman in their environment.


102 posted on 02/17/2011 11:01:41 AM PST by primeval patriot
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To: PLD
Now does this blouse look like she is trying to get raped.

Her dress is immaterial.

Her presence there as a Western woman, showboating as a "journalist" with cameras and lights on her bad self was suicidal.

The Third-world, Christian or otherwise, does not follow Western standards of conduct.

103 posted on 02/17/2011 11:11:03 AM PST by primeval patriot
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To: kristinn

This could make for a “very special episode” in Couric’s Muslim Sitcom.


104 posted on 02/17/2011 11:19:39 AM PST by The Toll
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To: livius

Having lived in Egypt I can tell you I would never walk around the bazaar, any of the stores, certainly not in a political demonstration with part of my chest showing.


105 posted on 02/17/2011 11:29:09 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: GOPJ

Fred Friendly and William Paley must be rolling in their graves at the self-loathing Jews in today’s media.

They were friends of Israel, as I recall.


106 posted on 02/17/2011 11:46:07 AM PST by Scanian
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To: kristinn

I have an ask a stupid question question. What on earth was CBS doing having a female reporter in the midst of an angry mob. It wouldn’t be smart in the US - it is doubly asinine to send a female into the midst of a mob in an Islamic nation.

gosh, I’m very surprised she got hurt - not.

That doesn’t make it right that she was hurt, but I also don’t go into bad areas of my town by myself at night - because it’s a reasonable precaution to take.


107 posted on 02/17/2011 12:12:01 PM PST by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: GOPJ

Really? A memorial in her honor? Was she wearing a blue dress?
Very sorry for very sick joke that’s not that funny...
To your point, amazing how sad the state of news reporting is these days...


108 posted on 02/17/2011 12:46:27 PM PST by matginzac
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To: GOPJ

Why am I part of your multi-freeper post?


109 posted on 02/17/2011 2:18:55 PM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA, You can't fix stupid...)
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To: NEMDF

“She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating”

From:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2674237/posts


110 posted on 02/17/2011 3:42:12 PM PST by LucyT
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To: jimmyo57

Yeah, but we don’t listen to NOW on anything else - why would we listen to them about this?


111 posted on 02/17/2011 4:04:35 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: PLD
Worry not, CBS has already sent a replacement to follow the Egyptian revolution story on the ground.
112 posted on 02/17/2011 4:13:33 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: GOPJ
LOL @ Clinton memorial

113 posted on 02/17/2011 4:50:29 PM PST by SouthDixie (The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.)
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To: NEMDF

It says right in the story, “Raped by 200”...Sexual assult...


114 posted on 02/17/2011 10:09:16 PM PST by tuckrdout ( A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back. Prov.29:11)
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To: Revolting cat!
Thanks for the laugh..Yes if they send that old horse then all the Egyptians that were involve in the attack of this lady would turn themselves in..
115 posted on 02/18/2011 6:34:15 AM PST by PLD
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