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She's no Helen Thomas...
...hope she recovers..
We have a thread fantasising about doing republican women but no thread about the reporter being "surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating"?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CBS correspondent Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the jubilation in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the U.S. broadcasting network said Tuesday.
Logan, a 39-year-old South Africa native and longtime war correspondent, has since flown back to the United States and is recovering in hospital. She was one of dozens of journalists attacked during the three weeks of protests throughout Egypt.
CBS News said in a statement Logan was covering the celebrations for CBS's "60 Minutes" program on February 11 when she and her team were surrounded by "a mob of more than 200 people whipped into a frenzy."
"In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers," CBS said.
Logan made her name as a war correspondent for Britain's GMTV during the start of the U.S.-led Afghanistan war in 2001 and subsequently reported on the war in Iraq and its violent aftermath. She joined CBS News in 2002.
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a media watchdog group, said at least 52 journalists were attacked and 76 were imprisoned during the unrest in Egypt that led Mubarak to step down after 30 years in power. All have been released, it said.
One journalist, Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ta'awun, was killed while filming clashes near Tahrir Square, the CPJ said.
"Egypt's old regime orchestrated a ferocious campaign to stop the news of this movement for change," Paul Steiger, a member of the CPJ's board and former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal said.
He was speaking at a news conference to discuss the group's annual report, which examined working conditions for journalists in more than 100 countries. It said 44 journalists were killed and 145 were imprisoned in 2010.
The number of deaths marked a sharp drop from the 71 recorded in 2009. The high toll that year stemmed from a massacre in the Philippines in which at least 34 journalists died -- the single deadliest event for journalists ever.
Pakistan was the deadliest country for journalists in 2010, with eight killed, followed by Iraq with five. Indonesia, Mexico and Honduras followed, each with three reporters slain.
This year's report highlights the increasing importance of web-based journalism. In 2010, 69 journalists whose work appeared primarily online were jailed, according to the CPJ.
Steiger said attacks on Internet journalists, which often include cyberattacks and attacks on websites, must be closely monitored.
"The often invisible, sophisticated attacks cons ute a new front in the fight for press freedom," he said. "We need to pay close attention to Internet censorship."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110215/...pt_journalists
She's no Helen Thomas...
...hope she recovers..
I could care less about what she looked like. Really brings down the whole perception of how good this revolution worked out when like this happens.
It's unfortunate, but not the fault of the revolution..
You think this is bad? Just wait, cooler girl. As bad as this is, things can get way worse.
My buddy Mike is interviewing Nir Rosen tomorrow morning. Hopefully they don't go there.
Hard to resist, I would think:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/...weeting/71343/
I was skeptical by CBS's public at ude to Logan's attack...just putting it out there, allowing people to believe she was raped as WOMEN and 20 soldiers came to her aid? I just don't understand the rush to put that information out there...she has a husband and child, a family, but it seems like a build-up to her writing a book about her war experiences as a woman in the field.
Granted, I was horrified when I heard the story. A white woman has NO BUSINESS in a mob of Middle Eastern men, it's the truth. The fact that CBS put her there is criminal to me, and I assume she cut some sort of deal with them. Heck, we don't even know if she was raped...sexual assault has a lot of meanings, especially with no way to prosecute the guilty mob.
But yea, it looks bad on the protesters, we'll see how this pans out in the next weeks when she starts doing interviews.
That must be the new civility I've been hearing about.
Beautiful blue eyed blonde haired woman venturing into the the middle of thousands of pissed off Egyptian peasants, solid plan.
Hope she gets well... that said, she didn't know what the risks were walking into a mob in a country which was basically lawless?
I'm not justifying the outcome, I'm merely questioning the judgement of going in there in the first place.
And please, no blond jokes.
Maybe someone was prejudiced of white South Africans?
A horrible horrible incident. When I first saw another headline on it I thought she just got physically assaulted. I hope she recovers as best and as quick as she can.
There's practically no government. What/who are you blaming? Or is this just a casualty of war?
Seriously, what the did these idiot reporters think???? It was not a game. ers were for real out ther.
No revolution is 100% peaceful. wake up. you go out there on your own risk.
Considering she was a war correspondent, I would think/hope she fully understood the risks (not saying she "had it coming" but she had to know the dangers of that sort of situation).
I 100% agree
Yes, those assaulters are total SOB's, but if I were a reporter, I wouldn't go there
If you want sensationalism, you have to be ready to pay the price
Just another pretty, blond, Euro-American white girl in the news.
Would there would any sympathy if foreigner, dark-haired, ethnic/Iranian Christiane Amanpour were the "accuser" (as the Repugs want to call rape victims).
Yes, there would be.
She had quite the rep as a married man chasing home wrecker when she was stationed in Baghdad. Had multiple guys literally fighting over her. Not saying it's wrong, just saying it happened.
Besides, it was her fault. She should have been wearing her Burqa. Everyone knows how uncovered womens faces/bodies just drive those sand savages wild.
yep, just another "accuser" who was Asking For It, like the bubbas and Good Ol' Boys always say. If she's pregnant, the "Christians" will crucify her for aborting it.
But was it forcible?
Agreed on all points. Im sorry, but I will not apologize for generalizing Middle Eastern culture. Women just do not rank in their society. Especially women who do not conform to their cultural standards. I think its safe to guess that in some ME countries, an uncovered woman is guilty of her own rape for tempting the men around her in her state of "undress".
But, she wants to play in the big leagues of the media world, you have to know the risks. Egypt is not Afghanistan, but it isnt Western either.
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