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Lara Logan
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Lara Logan (born March 29, 1971) is a television journalist for CBS News in the United States. She is the chief foreign correspondent for the CBS radio and TV networks.
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Logan was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College. In 1992, she graduated from the University of Natal in Durban.
In November 2001, Logan, then a correspondent for the British morning show GMTV managed to infiltrate the upper ranks of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, where she gained exclusive interviews at Bagram Air Base with General Babajan, a commander.
Logan, married for six years to Jason Siemon, until recently a professional basketball player in the United Kingdom, told how she had fairly begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa days after the September 11, 2001 attacks. She entered Afghanistan through Russia.
In her first major piece for 60 Minutes (which aired on November 6, 2005), Logan examined the U.S. Army's efforts at securing the deadly airport road in Baghdad. Her piece questioned whether the Army is in fact alienating Iraqis.
Named chief foreign correspondent of CBS News in February 2006, Logan was embedded with a U.S. military unit in Ramadi on March 10, 2006, when a nearby Marine was shot by a sniper.
In late January 2007 Logan filed a report about fighting along Haifa Street.[1] When CBS News refused to run the report on the nightly news because the footage was "a bit strong"[2] (although the network did run the report on their internet site), Logan tried to win public support to reverse this decision. Logan stated that "I would be very grateful if any of you have a chance to watch this story and pass the link on to as many people you know as possible. It should be seen. And people should know about this."[3]
After making this public appeal, some conservative bloggers and columnists made the claim that portions of Logan's video report contains footage that is identical to footage released by al Qaeda. While this claim remains unsubstantiated (the ultimate source of the video has not been revealed by CBS News, or Logan, for reasons stated below), these individuals have nonetheless questioned Logan's objectivity based on that premise.[4]
CBS News Vice President Paul Friedman said that the video was not from Al-Qaeda, although he declined to name the source. "Whenever we can identify the source of information or video, we want to do that," he added. "There are some rare cases when we have to protect the source. In this case, we needed to do so, because it’s literally a matter of life and death."[5] CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius added that "The fact that same video shows up in more than one place is something that happens every day. We occasionally use video from an Al-Qaeda Web site and we identify it. In this case, we didn't get it from Al-Qaeda, so we didn't identify it as such."[6]
- ^ "Battle for Haifa Street", by Lara Logan, CBS News, accessed Feb 2, 2007.
- ^ "Helping Lara Logan" by Rory O'Connor and David Olson, Mediachannel.org, Jan. 26, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007
- ^ "Lara Logan Appeals as CBS Rejects Her Iraq Report: Katie Couric's Newscast Nixes Story Because Images 'a Bit Strong'" on Irag Slogger blog, Jan. 30, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007;"Helping Lara Logan" by Rory O'Connor and David Olson, Mediachannel.org, Jan. 26, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007; "CBS Correspondent Makes Plea for Airtime" by David Bauder, Casper Star Tribune, February 01, 2007
- ^ "A CBS story 'too important to ignore'" by Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, Jan. 21, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007; Vent with Michelle Malkin video published on January 31, 2007; "Interesting Controversy Surrounding CBS’s Lara Logan" by New York Sun columnist Nibras Kazimi's non-Sun affiliated Talisman Gate blog, January 26, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007;"CBS's Lara Logan Controversy: Round Two Was the Video CBS "Obtained" from Al Qaeda?" on Irag Slogger blog, Jan. 30, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007.
- ^ "Questions Surround Haifa Street Video" CBS News Public Eye blog January 30, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007.
- ^ "Questions Surround Haifa Street Video" CBS News Public Eye blog January 30, 2007, accessed Feb. 1, 2007.
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