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CNN Blurs Out Lara Logan Photo Widely Disseminated by CBS News
TV Newser ^ | February 17, 2011 | Alex Werpin

Posted on 02/17/2011 1:12:01 PM PST by Beaten Valve

Update: From a CNN spokesperson:

The photo, which CBS said was taken before the attack, was being used on our air as we reported about the sexual assault. We made a network-wide editorial decision to blur the faces of those around Logan because we didn’t know if those in the photograph were involved in the attack, or not.

Original Post: In an odd decision, CNN decided to blur out the faces of the people behind Lara Logan in the widely disseminated photo taken shortly before her assault in Cairo.

The photo was sent widely by CBS News, and was published without alteration by hundreds of media outlets.

Or as The LA Times‘ Scott Collins writes:

The reason for the choice is unclear. It is possible that CNN worried about legal liability – despite the fact that the image was taken in a public place during a thronged demonstration of pressing international interest and had been distributed through a wire service. By partly obscuring the image, CNN tampered with the journalistic record without explanation, leaving it to viewers to guess whether the network intended to protect or incriminate the figures in the background.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cnn; dhimmitude; egypt; enemedia; laralogan; reporters
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To: Beaten Valve

Everybody has an opinion on this and here is mine. Of course I will sound like an old chauvinist, but she was too blond and too good looking to go among an Islamic mob.


41 posted on 02/17/2011 4:41:57 PM PST by OldEagle
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To: OldEagle
Of course I will sound like an old chauvinist, but she was too blond and too good looking to go among an Islamic mob.

I am too blond and too good looking to go among an Islamic mob (unarmed) and I am neither of those nor female.

42 posted on 02/18/2011 3:03:10 PM PST by magslinger (Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
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To: magslinger

Good point.


43 posted on 02/18/2011 3:33:33 PM PST by OldEagle
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To: PLMerite

I wouldn’t be surprised if the “security detail” was involved in the rape as well.


44 posted on 02/19/2011 12:42:48 PM PST by Levante
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To: Beaten Valve

What was the issue with ‘women in combat’ again?


45 posted on 02/19/2011 12:49:51 PM PST by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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