Posted on 02/19/2019 9:21:13 PM PST by KC_Lion
Television journalist Lara Logan poked the mainstream media beehive last week in a no-holds-barred interview where she bluntly accused many reporters of becoming “political activists” and even “propagandists” for the Left and said journalism has descended into “absolute horses**t.” The response has been furious, personal, and devoid of the respect normally demanded for rape survivors.
Lara Logan is a rape survivor in the most literal no-horsesh**t sense of the term. She was assaulted by a mob in Cairo while covering the Arab Spring uprising in February 2011 for CBS News and could easily have been killed. She has made it clear in numerous interviews that she feared for her life and found the strength to survive by thinking about her children.
Logan described the assault in her interview with Mike Ritland of the Mike Drop podcast, beginning with the story of how she insisted on covering the Tahrir Square protests despite 18 grueling hours in Egyptian custody, during which members of her team were beaten by security forces and Logan herself became sick from dehydration.
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The fall of Hosni Mubarak was supposed to be a lovely flowering of democracy. The view Lara Logan got of the proceedings from that filthy street in Cairo did not fit the narrative, so her story does not loom large in the media’s collective memory.
Take it from another female reporter who found herself swimming against the partisan tides of the media and paid a career price for it:
This is another national journalist cautioning us to think about the info we get and the attempts to censor views and facts. Hard to argue, whether you're left, right or otherwise if you're seeking accurate info.https://t.co/vqVFiBBy6g— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson)February 18, 2019
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Don’t ask for sympathy from the rabid leftist media. They will eat you alive if it suits their purpose. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
The media had no political interest in it. It was a real hate crime.
We forget Thahiri Square, which is a circle...
She will land on her feet.
Obama and a mob of thousands should be in prison for the Arab Spring
Tunisia, Libya, *Spit*
The media needs to be raped by Godzilla! Thrice!
Those animals screamed that she was an Israeli SPY and then they raped her so hard and much that she had to get a freaking *HYSTERECTOMY*.
Damn Arabs and the US Media:
Equally disgusting, IMO.
Not like a frat party at Brett Kavanaugh's < /sarc >
She sounds like a real journalist, despite her work for 60 Minutes.
She entirely lacked wisdom ever going near Tahrir Square. She ignored warnings. So that part of being savaged is on her.
The rest of it, she doesn’t fit the media narrative, so she doesn’t exist.
The fact that she survived a sexual assault really shouldn’t be a factor in any of this and I think it’s kind of condescending to even bring it up.
The fact that she has the BALLZ to go places and do things that others wouldn’t dare, is a factor.
The fact that she has the BALLZ to confront the bias, prejudice and outright hatred, her fellow media types and journalists have for any and all those that are not like them, is a factor.
The fact that she has the BALLZ to end her career(more or less), with this interview, is a factor.
She’s putting out there, what everyone already knows, but it’s coming from someone on the inside. Maybe she has enough money tucked away that she doesn’t have to worry about finances for the rest of her life, hopefully, because unless she gets picked up by Fox or OANN, she’s done. Never to be invited to any of the cool parties or fundraisers. No more rubbing elbows with the DC, NYC, West Coast elite. Hell, maybe that’s why she did it. She finally got sick of seeing and being around all those hypocritical a$$holes and sadi, ENOUGH!!!
>> the rabid leftist media
CBS has nothing on Comcast and Disney.
But no one here gives a damn about the parent companies driving the news agenda.
I remember this story all too well. Thanks for posting.
I do. I give a damn about Disney’s effect on society, but there is not much I can do about it, except to avoid patronizing some of their products. Most of us on F/R care.
When an industry is so interwoven into the products and services of everyday life, it’s hard to avoid them completely.
I’m ready to talk about such negative effects with those who seem truly ready to listen, and not write me off as an obsessive zealot.
It is precisely stories like Lara’s which bring to light just how brutal so many cultures in our world remain!
On another note: It affirms for me why President Trump’s decree promoting the decriminalization of homosexuality in Islamic countries and elsewhere is a righteous move. No woman, no man, regardless of sexual orientation, dressing with or without a burka, or even cross dressing should ever be subject to this kind of torture, mass rape, or savage execution as a regular occurrence!
Lara is one of the brightest and most articulate people I have ever heard give an impromptu interview.
I heard her on a morning radio show I occasionally listen to
Armstrong & Getty on 810Am San Francisco.
This was about a year ago.
The lady forgets nothing from her stories. It’s like Virtual Reality with her. To hear her tell it, is not at all boring.
If she wishes to continue her work, I think there will be a place for her, even if she must create such a position herself. Lara likes a challenge more than anything.
Godzilla wouldn’t touch them for fear of catching something he could not throw back.
break up and keep broken all of the media corporations.
Make them truly compete with one another. that might help.
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