cluciano63
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I don't get the attacks on the media. Don't these people need media coverage to help their cause? Or is this the old govt attacking the media?
Poor Lara. I hope she is able to move on from this traumatic experience.
I am livid that an American citizen was subjected to that treatment and abuse.
I am just as furious that our news media thinks they have the right to be in the middle of everything with zero consequences. We had no business being in the thick of the mobs there.
CBS is just as at fault for having her there, even Couric had the sense to get out of there.
With all of that, my most sincere hope is that she recovers fully.
I'm outraged too. Outraged that the majority of the outrage is because she is young, blond, and American. She is one victim, and while what happened to her is terrible, how many others did it happen to during the protests, others that will never have anyone to pray for them, and won't get the benefit of American hospitals to help them recover? Hundreds is probably a low estimate. I am outraged that we (as a society, not as WS'ers) care more about this woman because she was "from here" and the countless other silent victims were "from there."
Alternately, I am also outraged at the number of people that don't understand the sacrifice made by international correspondents, both when something of this nature happens and when it doesn't. The time away from their families, from their homeland, must be horrible, and when a crime is committed and or a tragedy occurs, this is the thanks they get? She no more deserved this than did any of the other victims that had the same or worse happen to them.
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I know...her privacy and all but for gosh sakes she's a reporter, on TV. We should not be left to infer from so little information.
I respectfully and totally disagree. As a reporter, she is a public figure when it comes to reporting the news - but it ends there. She is a private citizen who was attacked and we have no right to know anything more. It's her life, it's her body. She doesn't need to be victimized all over again by having the details put out there for the world to see/know. Guessing what happened is one thing, knowing is another.
JMHO
Most network higher-ups didn't even know how brutal the sexual assault was until a few minutes before the statement went out.
"We were surprised it stayed quiet" as long as it did, one source said.
Another source insisted that Logan was "involved in the process" of deciding whether to make her attack public, and ultimately understood why the statement had to be released.
The horrific incident came a week after the 39-year-old reporter was temporarily detained by Egyptian police amid tensions over foreign coverage of the country's growing
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/intern...ightmare_pXiUVvhwIDdCrbD95ybD5N#ixzz1EBkmfYQF
CBS telling Lara that Egypt was too dangerous because she was a woman, would have been like NASCAR telling Danica Patrick that she could not race because she was a woman and might be hurt in a wreck.
I do not hold CBS in any way responsible for what happened to her and I doubt that Lara does either. The only people responsible for what happened to her are the men that attacked her, period. For those wondering about the size of the security detail let me say that contrary to what most people think, if she and her crew had been accompanied by a larger security detail it would only have attracted more attention, making them more of a target, and increased the danger to all of them.