Is Lara Logan being smeared for her criticism of Iraq war coverage

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Attytood: Is Lara Logan being smeared for her criticism of Iraq war coverage

Lara Logan used to cover Baghdad for CBS News at the peak of the fighting in Iraq, then became the network's chief foreign correspondent, and just a few days ago it was announced that she'll be coming to Washington with a new title as chief foreign affairs correspondent. She has clearly been an up-and-coming star on CBS, where she sometimes appears on the flagship show "60 Minutes." She's been described in profiles as resourceful, certainly ambitious and seemingly fearless.

She has also been passionate about something that's been sorely lacking: Trying to get stories about the reality on the ground in Iraq and more recently Afghanistan onto American TV, where citizens can see for themselves what is happening in the wars that we pay for with our tax dollars and the blood of our citizens. In 2007, she sent out an email begging for help because her CBS producers wouldn't air a graphic story, that included critical remarks about the U.S. occupation from Iraqi civilians, called "The Battle for Haifa Street."

Logan’s email, with the one-word subject line of ‘help’, was sent to friends and colleagues imploring them to lobby CBS to highlight that people are interested in seeing the piece. In it, Logan argues that the story is “not too gruesome to air, but rather too important to ignore… It should be seen. And people should know about this.”

In fact, the story never appeared on CBS as filmed, although it did appear on its Web site and some footage made it into other stories. But Logan has remained a critic of the way that the war is portrayed on the American media, and when she appeared on the popular "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart this month her outspoken words were hard to ignore...
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Is_Lara_Logan_being_smeared_for_her_criticism_of_the_media.html

[Bob Dobbs]

1. Truth is poison to busholini inc.

Of course she is being swift boated by the criminal class.

[tanyev]

2. "it's a saga that 'first broke on the freerepublic.com in December.'"

Yeah, just like that crack reporting team of Mommy's basement keyboard warriors broke "Rathergate". Somebody must have fed it to them.

[Doctor_J]

3. Yes, I commented on this yesterday.

Hopefully she won't end up like Webb or Hatfield, though I wouldn't put anything past the wingers.

[libodem]

4. No doubt

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Duh! Is the Pope ... uh, German?