(snip)Posted on 02/18/2019 11:02:39 AM PST by gaijin
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"[At Israel's Wailing Wall]...women have this tiny little spot in front of the wall to pray, and the rest of the wall is for the men. To me, that’s a great representation of the American media, is that in this tiny little corner where the women pray you’ve got Breitbart and Fox News and a few others, and from there on, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, Huffington Post, Politico, whatever, right? All of them."
Logan continued by saying President Donald Trump‘s press coverage is a case and point of how the media produces a “distortion” by boiling things down so that “there’s no grey. It’s all one way.”
“If it doesn’t match real life,” Logan said, “something’s wrong.”
The conversation went on with Logan citing recent comments from former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, saying the media has “abandoned our pretense, or at least the effort to be objective.”
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That is 100% my own speculation, I was not asserting any of those things as being facts.
10%? Typo, eh? Surely she isn’t guilty of anything.
What, 92-93% of news stories about Trump are negative?
Click on my name and look at the 20 year old bumper stickers on my truck.
I watch college football games and Netflix on my TV. Nothing else.
“Lara Logan was raped at Tahrir Square by a crowd of Muslim men celebrating the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt. She was in the crowd, seemingly unaware and unprotected, covering Egypt and generally Obama/Brennan’s mid-east regime change efforts of the “Arab Spring.”...I think at some point all Leftists are forced to confront the cognitive dissonance and great contradictions of their beliefs.”
I’m starting to think someone back at CBS News knew Laura’s politics and knew EXACTLY what was going on in Egypt (after all that is their job), and then sent her there to ‘teach her a lesson’.
[I bet no bottle of vodka is safe around Hillary today on Presidents‘ Day.]
I probably shouldn’t have but this comment from someone at the article made me LOL.
#WokeJournalism
I realize I’m late to this thread, but my husband just heard about Logan and her news. So this is my contribution.
Did you see video of podcast or whatever it was? Definately never guilty but they look enhanced since those earlier pics.
If you read any in depth article about what happened to her you will have little doubt as to the depth of depravity and horror that she suffered.
She had to have her uterus surgically removed as a result of the attack and still suffers pain as a result of what those animals did to her.
She subsequently survived cancer and you can only imagine the PTSD and flashbacks that she most likely suffers from, and will continue to suffer from.
She deserves a tip of the hat.
She joked something along the lines of 85% of journalists are registered Democrats, 14% are independents and the 1% declined to state. She then talked about how wrong the polls were in 2016 because the press made it unpopular to be known as a Trump supporter. That's still true.
I suspect if I swapped my red Georgia cap for a MAGA cap my life would be turned upside down at work.
I lost one friend--a smart gay hispanic millennial--over my Trump support because he believes all the lies about Republicans and Trump in particular. I tried to educate him in reality on Reagan, Clinton, Trump but the cognitive dissonance was too much for him.
If we had more in journalism doing their job in the manner she talks about in describing her own process we'd be far better off as a nation. Instead we have propagandists. She made an analogy of the wailing wall where all but a corner is reserved for men. She calls the corner where Brietbart and maybe FoxNews are relegated to what the rest of the wall is CNN/CBS/NBC/whatever.
She rightly states the coverage of Trump is so biased it can't possibly reflect reality because the media boil away the grey areas into their anti-Trump narrative no matter the story.
She seems like a terrific person, up front and plain spoken at times, and a solid professional.
I am hesitant putting anyone in the plus column who works for the lying press but I think I could end up liking her.
We will see how she holds up to what is surely coming her way.
At the end of the podcast she makes a swipe at religious Jews. She still suffers from Stockholm Syndrome over what happened to her in Cairo.
Yep! She is the one. Lara Logan also took a gratuitous swipe at Jews at the end of her podcast. Maybe she was so frightened at being called a Jew while she was being raped by those Muslim men in Tahir Sq., that she wants to state she is definitely not a Jew by her disllke of them and her Stokholm Syndrome admiration for the Muslims.
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