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Lara Logan: I Was Stripped, Nearly Scalped

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:13:48 CDT

CBS correspondent Lara Logan was convinced she was dying as she was sexually molested by a crazed mob of Egyptian men, but was saved at the last minute by a woman wearing a burka. All she could see was "just her eyes," she said on 60 Minutes last night. "She...

Lara Logan on Egypt Assault: They Were 'Merciless'

John Johnson — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:38:26 CDT

CBS reporter Lara Logan is determined that the sexual assault she endured in Egypt's Tahrir Square will not "define" her, she tells the New York Times . She will talk more about the attack on Sunday's 60 Minutes , then stop giving interviews about it. The details are rough: “For an extended...

Lara Logan Beaten With Flagpoles, Fists

Matt Cantor — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:40:10 CST

Harsh new details of Lara Logan's attack in Cairo: The CBS reporter was stripped and battered with fists and makeshift flagpoles, reports the Times of London, via the Daily Mail . She was pinched so hard by her attackers that the red marks that covered her body were initially thought to...

Logan Has 'Broken That Code of Silence'

Mark Russell — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:33:57 CST

Journalist Kim Barker was covering a jubilant demonstration in Pakistan in 2007, with thousands cheering for the country's chief justice, when the crowd turned on her, groping her relentlessly. She only escaped because the chief justice saw and let her take shelter in his car. "I knew other female correspondents...

Nir Rosen Should Be Ashamed—but Not Ruined

Matt Cantor — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:34:05 CST

Nir Rosen’s thoughtless tweets about Lara Logan were “grotesque”—but they shouldn’t “eclipse an often-heroic career” of “intrepid” war reporting, writes Michelle Goldberg in the Daily Beast . Indeed, today’s media “has an awful way of reducing us all to the worst thing we’ve ever done.” And “the more we live...

Nir Rosen Explains His 'Terrible' Lara Logan Tweets

John Johnson — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:14:22 CST

Independent journalist Nir Rosen writes a mea culpa in Salon to again apologize for his Lara Logan tweets . He reiterates that he didn't know she'd been sexually assaulted, or that the attack was so severe, but says "there is no excuse for what I wrote" and that he hopes "Logan...

Cooper Hammers Journo Over Lara Logan Tweets

Matt Cantor — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:05:20 CST

Nir Rosen, the journalist who tweeted more than one tasteless line about Lara Logan's assault faced Anderson Cooper last night, attempting to explain what he’d been thinking—which was basically that he wasn't thinking at all. "I don’t have an explanation. I was a jerk," Rosen told Cooper. He said...

Logan Attack Highlights Women's Plight

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:42:00 CST

For a moment the glorious dream of liberation in Egypt appeared to hold promise for everyone. But the vicious sexual assault on CBS News' Lara Logan underscored the plight of women in Egypt, who are often subjected to catcalls, groping and assaults in their own country, reports MSNBC . The same...

Here's How Not to Talk About Lara Logan

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:50:05 CST

News of Lara Logan's sexual assault in Egypt just came to light yesterday, and already the "blame the victim" mentality is on full display. One "stunningly offensive blog post" took just minutes to "hinge the story on the blond reporter's looks," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams on Salon . The LA Weekly...