What the hell was a pretty woman like that doing in the middle of that mess??? CBS should have hired Janet Reno as a foreign correspondent for that job! He would NEVER get raped!
Oh no, I never blame sexual assault victims. She was doing her job. I question the wisdom of her BOSS for putting her in that position.
Have you seen any other female dressed like that surrounded by Muslims ? The only time I've seen women reporters dressed like that is when they are doing a story from a room of soundstage over there.
The rest of the world is not a city park in Metropolis with Superman flying overhead and someone to sue for anything that upsets you. Only complete ****ing morons like Democrats and journalists think otherwise.
Isn't that redundant? :-)
I notice Islamic culture is more prone to deviance and psychopathy. Rape is usually motivated by sexual dominance, not sexual pleasure.
A common meme in American social service provider circles, but it ignores the fact that the two things are not actually separate in the minds of most of the offenders, and even then it is limited to societies fully subscribing to the modern Western cultural ethos of how women should be treated, and what behaviors are acceptable for sexual gratification. It's a construct that has no meaning in the Arab world or anywhere else that does not have a European/North American culture (Which includes some particular mainly-urban districts in both Europe and North America).
Wee Willie Pitt blames Mubarak's people (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=423000&mesg_id=423420)
Anderson Coooper is sooooooo pissed right about now. That could have been him.
:lol:
Jesus, Gina, warn a brutha! I just spit beer all over my squad car again!
What the hell was a pretty woman like that doing in the middle of that mess??? CBS should have hired Janet Reno as a foreign correspondent for that job! He would NEVER get raped!HA HA! Love it. How true.
There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.
Dammit to hell in a handbasket. :banghead: I am sorry that she had this experience and hope for her full recovery. But.............
How the hell CBS and Ms. Logan could have missed the point that there are inheirent dangers diddling around a square, in the middle of protests, especially ones led by muslims is beyond me. Shame on them for stupidity. For shame.
Hi,
While I totally agree with you all about the muslim values and behavior, I have been to Cairo and brought my wife with me. We have met and dined with several Egytian men and their wives and it is the one muslim country I have been in where they have come out of the dark ages so to speak as far as women are concerned. I recall many of the women had jobs, one was a doctor and very well respected.
What appears to me has happened was she got caught up in the middle of some of the muslim extremists who want to turn Egypt back into the dark ages. It was a terrible thing that happened and my heart goes out to her; there is enough blame to go around to a lot of folks for her being in that position. At the same time, since I was a child during WWII, battlefield correspondents know they are taking huge risks. They do it because it also brings huge rewards when they are succesful.
Recall when they first bombed Baghdad and the three CNN correspondents were holed up in the hotel reporting. My guess is they made tons of money for speaking engagements as a result of that experience. Had an errant bomb accidentally hit the hotel, it would have just been the bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Some have suggested the young lady may well have been a bit naive and had a false sense of security. Were I to guess, I would fall in the group that suspects that also.
regards,
5412
ok this is I view it.
#1 she is a woman going to a country, where men don't view their women very highly
#2 Egypt is a place of civil unrest
#3 If her boss had said to her, you cannot go because of the above reasons, could she sue him for discrimination??
#4 Why couldn't she have done her reporting away from the major rioters??
#5 Do international journalists have a liability clause that says they cannot sue (anybody)for personal damages including their own bodies, and enter a country of civil unrest at their own risk.
#6 Did she ask to go or did her boss tell her to go??
I am sure she wanted to go, because of the opportunity, and I don't blame her for that gumption. I am sure the Risk Mgmt dept at CBS has policies in place for just this kind of thing. However, I believe that there was a supreme sense of naivety, on both parts, as to what they thought might happen.
I have a buddy, who is a roughneck, and has to go to Yemen at least twice a year. When he goes, he travels with a Saudi bodyguard crew, of at minimum 4 people. He also has to sign paperwork stating he understands if he dies there, his beneficiaries get no life insurance.
Hi,
Wow, I hope your friend is paid in proportion to the risk being taken. What I found most interesting is that he has done the gig several times, you can't continue to roll the dice double or nothing and expect to survive.
I wish your friend well.
In rereading this I realized something. In the last month I had a friend return from Iraq. His reward, he got promoted to E-4.
regards,
5412
I notice Islamic culture is more prone to deviance and psychopathy. Rape is usually motivated by sexual dominance, not sexual pleasure.
Too many 1st cousin marriages for too many centuries.
There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.
I hope the local goats and camels don't have communicable diseases.
hope she didn't get knocked up. I'd have that bastard aborted on the spot. they're nothing but incest bred mongoloid bastard animals anyway
Not sure where she first received medical treatment...but here in the US, I think rape victims are given a choice if they wish to take a "morning after" pill.
I know there is a time frame as to how long after a rape, that the pill will work, but I don't know what it is. I do know, that sperm can live for about 72 hours in the female body.
CBS may not be commenting, but since I've been up since 4:30 this morning ( :censored: ), it's been all over the tv. I started with Fox at 4:30, watching last night's reruns, and Fox and Friends, til I switched it over to the local CBS affiliate, then the CBS morning show, and it's been reported all morning. Every news brief and even the anchors talking about it. All have wished her a speedy recovery.
I understand that women want these assignments just as the men do....but I don't understand why....a young, fairly sexy, BLONDE, woman, that I am assuming is intelligent or she wouldn't be an international correspondent...was dressed the way she was, going into that type of situation in that part of the world?
Common sense should have told her to be as completely covered as much as possible, and a baseball cap covering up all that blonde hair. Like M said, when he saw it this morning, said she might as well have been waving a red flag in front of a bull.
I am in no way making excuses for those animals that attacked her....but, geesh o'Pete! Those couldn't have been the only clothes she had with her going into a predominately muslim area. Even if they were, she could have buttoned up her jacket to her neck, and borrowed a ball cap from one of the guys on her crew.
Her crew must be feeling so guilty, for getting separated from her. They have to be constantly thinking that one of them could have either prevented the attack, or gotten her away.
Thank God, for the women who heard her, and brought the soldiers. She's very lucky. I hope and pray, that not only does she have a complete physical recovery, but also a good emotional recovery - if that is possible.
I do hope, that any future reporters going into the area, both female and male....take this atrocity to heart, and make sure that they have either bodyguards or very large crew members that stick to them like glue.
(http://oi54.tinypic.com/1z5teys.jpg)the rise of Islam
Is that supposed to be a Muslim penis? :fuelfire:
with teeth !!!!
This kinda makes me wanna go watch Dune, or Tremors. :popcorn:(http://oi54.tinypic.com/1z5teys.jpg)the rise of Islam
Sounds to me like you need to watch the movie "Teeth"
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622
Theanimalsreligion of peace strikes again....
Sounds to me like you need to watch the movie "Teeth"
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622
Remember, they respect their women....yours....not so much.
Gina, WTF----Now I have to go out into snow and ice to rent this dumb ass movie about some woman with teeth in her woo-hoo.
Arrrrr :whistling: why not, may make hubby stay home at night.
A network source told The Post that her attackers were screaming, "Jew! Jew!" during the assault. And the day before, Logan had told Esquire.com that Egyptian soldiers hassling her and her crew had accused them of "being Israeli spies." Logan is not Jewish.
On the night of the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, many Egyptians celebrated in the streets. But on that night, February 11, 2011, in what the mainstream news media described in one accord as a celebration of human liberty and democracy, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted and beaten by a group of 200 thugs who taunted and shouted, 'JEW! JEW!' For nearly five days CBS News sat on the story. And when they finally reported it, they left out the key component--the Egyptians who assaulted her were apparently motivated by Jew-hate, as indicated by their taunts while the attack took place. No one in the crowd of giddy revelers came to her aid. She was helped by a few Egyptian soldiers and a group of women.
CBS complicit in news coverup (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1317384&srvc=rss)
“[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.â€
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.â€
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.â€
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?
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Is anybody surprised that Al Jazeera light (CBS) didnt cover this? Im sure they wouldnt want to let any little thing like this to muss up their true agenda to use this event in Egypt for their Messiahs re-election campaign.
It's not a porno, vesta :lmao:Well, sheee-it, then it's hardly worth watching now, is it? :-)
It's not a porno, vesta :lmao:What the hell... how did I miss this movie? :lmao:
CBS complicit in news coverup (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1317384&srvc=rss)
“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.â€
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.â€
How is that not news?
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Is anybody surprised that Al Jazeera light (CBS) didnt cover this? Im sure they wouldnt want to let any little thing like this to muss up their true agenda to use this event in Egypt for their Messiahs re-election campaign.
namvet - 2/17/2011: if she's going back over there i have some doubts about this story
CBS was caught between a rock and a hard place on this issue....and probably wondering what their legal responsibility would be towards their employee.
Logan was representing the network when she was not just severely attacked....but most likely raped. I think it's been reported, that she was raped, but I think it's been either assumed or stated "allegedly". Since it has been stated that she was "sexually" attacked...it is presumed that her personal parts were attacked. A lot of damage can done to the female body without a penis being used...especially within a crowd of 200 (who counted them?) and occuring for as long as 20-30 minutes. Not only to her body, but to her psyche.
I would think as a rep of CBS, regardless of what papers she may have signed releasing CBS from responsiblility....CBS's lawyers were saying to keep quiet. Not only because of employer/employee liability, but also because the attack was sexual.
Where exactly does CBS's responsibility to report begin and end?
In the majority of rape/sexual assault cases, the media... whether it be print, television or internet...does not report the victim's name unless the victim was murdered, or the case comes to trial.
If CBS had reported that one of their journalists was sexually attacked in the Egyptian protests, it would have taken maybe all of 5 minute... for someone not connect to CBS...to figure out who the journalist was, by process of elimination, to publicly announce that it was Logan.
I'm not sure if it's legal to report rape/sexual assault victims' names, or if it is just an "unspoken" rule to not report the vicitim's name out of consideration for the victim. Legally, it may vary from state to state.
Taking out the legal ramifications of responsiblity of CBS to Logan as an employer...this happened to someone they knew and cared about. Maybe they weren't reporting it out of consideration for her and her family. I know it's been reported that she is hospitalized...and as of yesterday, she was still hospitalized.
Like a said...between a rock and a hard place.
I have not seen or heard it reported that she is going back over there. She and some of her crew was detained by Egyption police/military, questioned and released earlier in the protests, returned to the US and did go back.
She apparently has been to Iran and Afghanistan several times as a journalist. After going into war zones, I would think most reporters wouldn't overthink going back to Egypt.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/02/15/business-broadcasting-amp-entertainment-financial-impact-us-tv-lara-logan-attack_8310139.html
I did see Anderson Cooper, who was attacked there and got a concussion, interviewed early last week...and he said that he would go back.
Fox TV claims she's going back over
Fox TV claims she's going back over
Hmmm. I couldn't find anything on Fox's website.
All I could find were articles that she was going to go back to work. Apparently she was released yesterday from the hospital.
Several articles quoted the Esquire interview that she gave after her first trip over to Egypt when she and her crew were detained by the Egyptian military for a day. It was when she went back a week later, that she was attacked. She went back to interview the Google guy who supposedly started the revolution.
well that's what Fox claimed. if she does go back she get's what she deserves
The woman is nuts if she goes back. Is this supposed to be an "intrepid reporter" routine? Because the only vibe I'm getting from this schtick is "utterly insane or IQ of 2" reporter.
Maybe this is just a rumor.
Just hours after confirmed reports of CBS reporter Lara Logan falling victim to a brutal sexual assault in Egypt before being rescued by a group of brave women and soldiers, several network executives met to discuss if female journalists belong in the Middle East.
Network Execs May Pull Female Reporters From Egypt After Lara Logan Attack
http://www.popeater.com/2011/02/16/egypt-female-reporter-attacks/
no. they don't belong there. and for obvious reasons
that guy in the back with the smile on his face looks reallllllllll suspicious
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.popeater.com/media/2011/02/1297868082453.jpg)