Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes?

[n2doc]

Eleven years ago, the 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan was sitting in the InterContinental hotel in Amman, Jordan, watching her career flash before her eyes.

She was 31 years old, a rookie at CBS News, assigned to cover the biggest story on earth: the invasion of Iraq. But nothing was going as planned. With only days until the American invasion, Logan had been forced to leave Baghdad and was desperate to get back before the war began, but she and her crew, because of the dangers of the imminent “shock and awe” bombing campaign, were forbidden from going by the network. That’s when she heard about a convoy of French reporters making the trek to Baghdad.

“She called me several times, begging to go with us,” recalls Laura Haim, a French TV journalist. But the French decided it was too dangerous having an American broadcaster onboard, even if she was South African. “I said, ‘No way.’?” Fluent in three foreign languages, Logan begged in French.

Logan had labored tirelessly for this chance, spending several months in Kabul during the invasion of Afghanistan and heedlessly throwing herself into danger for the camera to deliver raw reportage to the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes II, the spinoff version of the Sunday program. Her work had earned her notice at the highest levels of the network. CBS chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, from his perch in Los Angeles, viewed her steely eyes, breathless delivery, and exotic accent as the raw material of a future star. So Logan had strategized with her agent to make the biggest possible splash in Baghdad—a replay of Christiane Amanpour’s star turn at CNN during the first Gulf War.

Days later, as American bombs rained down on Iraq, the French reporter was startled to see Lara Logan standing in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. “Look, I made it!” she declared.

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http://nymag.com/news/features/lara-logan-cbs-news-2014-5/

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Reading the entire article

she seems like a self-absorbed asshole. Her whole career was about her, not about actually doing the job well. She did what she did to make herself a bigger 'star', not to actually try to deliver truth or even quality journalism. And that's not just 'Benghazigate', but everything she did.

[old guy]

2. 60 minutes itself is too toxic for me to watch no matter who is on it.

[That Guy 888]

5. Sadly, I have to +1 n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

3. She should not be mentioned

in the same sentence as Amanpour

[avebury]

6. Agreed! nt

[silvershadow]

4. Does a a bear journalist shit on the story in the woods? nt

[avebury]

7. It seems like she would be a better

fit for Fox. After all, Fox isn't concerned about accurate reporting.

[66 dmhlt]

8. Logan got advice and counsel directly from "Lindsley" Graham

She's a GOP sycophant. Always has been, always will be.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/05/1297109/-Lindsey-Graham-Gave-Advice-and-Counsel-to-Lara-Logan-on-her-Debunked-60-Minutes-Benghazi-Report