Lara Logan
Lara Logan's bold, award-winning reporting from war zones has earned her a prominent spot among the world's best foreign correspondents. Named a full-time "60 Minutes" correspondent in May 2012, the 2012-13 season will be her eighth contributing to the newsmagazine. She is also the co-host of the CBS News special broadcast "Person to Person."
Logan had been CBS News chief foreign correspondent since February 2006, a role she fulfilled while also contributing to "60 Minutes" since late 2005. In February 2011, Logan was sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob in Tahrir Square while reporting a story for "60 Minutes" on the Egyptian Revolution. She broke her silence about the incident on "60 Minutes" to draw attention to the plight of women, particularly female journalists covering war zones. Logan's September 2010 "60 Minutes" report from the battlefield in Afghanistan earned her an Alfred I. duPont -Columbia University Silver Baton. Another from that war zone, a five-segment series for the Cbs Evening News about U.S. Marines on patrol, was named an RTDNA/Edward R. Murrow Award winner.
Her other notable reports for "60 Minutes" include the Emmy-winning profile of Medal of Honor winner Salvatore Giunta; an interview with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde; a report on the controversial practice of raising exotic game on U.S. ranches; a penetrating interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto; and an interview with Gen. John Abizaid when he was the Commander of United States Central Command.
Logan's reports have been an integral part of CBS News' coverage of the war in Iraq. She was the only journalist from an American network in Baghdad when the U.S. military invaded the city, reporting live from Firdos Square as the statue of Saddam fell. Logan broke the story of the abuse of special needs Iraqi orphans on the CBS Evening News in June 2007, a report that made headlines around the world. Also that year, she reported from Pakistan on the death of Benazir Bhutto and its aftermath.
Logan's reporting from the frontlines of Afghanistan and with the Green Berets searching for Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden appeared on "60 Minutes II" and on the CBS Evening News, "The Early Show" and CBS News Radio, for which she served as a general assignment reporter. While reporting a "60 Minutes II" story about the war near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 2005, the military vehicle Logan was riding in hit a double-tank mine. The explosion seriously wounded two soldiers; she escaped with minor injuries.
Logan received an Emmy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and a Murrow Award for "Ramadi: On the Front Line," a powerful 2006 report on American troops under fire in Ramadi, Iraq, a piece Logan and her producer shot themselves while embedded with a U.S. military unit. She has also received five American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards: in 2008 for Outstanding Feature-Hard News for the Iraqi orphans story; in 2004 for Individual Achievement for Best Reporter/Correspondent; in 2003 for Best News Story for her CBS Evening News report on the attempted assassination of Afghan President Hamid Kharzi; in 2002 for Best News Story for her CBS News Radio coverage of the war in Afghanistan; and in 2000 for Best News Story for her CBS News Radio coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She received the David Bloom Award in 2008 from the Radio & Television Correspondents Association for excellence in enterprise reporting and the 2007 Association of International Broadcasters' Best International News Story Award for her report on the Taliban.
Before formally joining CBS News in 2002 as "60 Minutes II" correspondent, Logan already had 14 years of journalism experience, including 10 years in the international broadcast news arena. She served as a correspondent for GMTV, the weekday morning news program of Great Britain's ITV (2000-02), and as a freelance correspondent for CBS News Radio, a role that included occasional appearances on the CBS Evening News. Logan reported on the war in Afghanistan, Middle East violence, the Mozambique floods, the land invasions in Zimbabwe and the India earthquake. Previously, she served in a variety of freelance assignments, including as a correspondent for ITN and Fox/SKY, an assignment editor for CBS News and ABC News in London, and an editor/producer for NBC, CBS and the European Broadcast Union (1996-99). Logan also served as a freelance correspondent for CNN (1998-99), covering the U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the conflict in Northern Ireland and the war in Kosovo, among other stories.
She got her start in broadcast journalism in Africa as a senior producer for Reuters Television (1992-96). Logan began her career as a general news reporter for the "Daily News"(1990-92) and the "Sunday Tribune" (1988-89), both located in Durban, South Africa.
Logan was born in Durban and was graduated from the city's University of Natal in 1992 with a degree in commerce. She also holds a diploma in French language, culture and history from the Universite de L'Alliance Francaise in Paris. In addition to French, Logan speaks Afrikaans and basic Portuguese.
You take handsome men in uniform, a lovely woman 60 Minutes Journalist, and miraculously smart dogs (all are) and present heroic crap like this, and the scum bag public will eat it up. The thinking is that dogs are somehow expendable items just like EVERYTHING ELSE HUMANS USE, BREAK, REPLACE, THROW AWAY AND WASTE. You are told that dogs have this marvelous sense of smell and therefore you conclude inhumanely that they should be used to sniff out bombs. That is the most thoughtless act I know of, making all who perpetrate this on dogs, killers themselves. The same goes for police dogs!
Dogs don't know about all the weaponry, invented by man, they will be subjected to. War is mans very own hell ~ sending an animal to play in it is murderous. Suppose some of our children tested positive for superior smell and were commandeered! Suppose dogs chose people to do the LITTLE dog fighting they do. This is no more that a sugared up version of Michael Vicks!
Likely I won't change any minds, but this act is just another of human cowardice. Sweetened up "Michael Vickedness"
Dog training for search and rescue is another matter entirely, because dogs are subject themselves to tsunami's, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. Obviously few people can make this FAIR distinction, and draft the one and only animal capable of unconditional love on earth to do man's dirty work.
That sucks, and if you find in favor of sending dogs to do this, so do you!
Angry as hell,
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Could Lara Logan or 60 Minutes at least let their viewers know that according to George Orwell's memoir about the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia, that the Anarchists spared the Sagrada Familia "because of its 'artistic value'" and that the Anarchists even drapped "a red and black banner between its spires."
I have already posted my comment on Facebook but wanted to be certain you received my thoughts. Your report on Gaudi's Basilica, the Sagrada Familia was excellent. Almost 40 years ago I made a documentary film titled Antonio
Gaudi...the Unfinished Vision and he has been part of my life since then.
You truly captured his spirit and vision....well done and thank you.
John Alaimo
I have already posted my comment on Facebook but wanted to be certain you received my thoughts. Your report on Gaudi's Basilica, the Sagrada Familia was excellent. Almost 40 years ago I made a documentary film titled Antonio
Gaudi...the Unfinished Vision and he has been part of my life since then.
You truly captured his spirit and vision....well done and thank you.
John Alaimo
I'm sorry to remind you with the tragic instant you suffered in Egypt 2 years ago.
And I know that all the apologies of the world will not be sufficient to make it up for you and your family.
I just want to let you know that there are Egyptians out there still thinking of you and feel deeply sorry for what happened and we pray to god to support you and give you all the happiness of the world.
So kindly accept my personal apology as well as on my behalf of the Egyptian people
An Egyptian!
For more than a decade now I have been a social worker at a shelter for women and children, and many of our residents are women and children who have been the victims of verbal, physical and sexual abuse. Each and every time we deal with such cases, I see first hand what a devastating effect rape/sexual assault has upon the lives of women! The shame, quilt, fear of further physical contact and a resulting phobia of intimacy etc. While the physical scars may heal in time, the emotional ones are long lasting and sadly might never go away. Our residents are already have several other issues affecting their lives besides these horrendous acts they now have to deal with. Even with counselling, therapy and whatever other treatment is available, many women do not recover and fall by the wayside haunted and permanently damaged by these horrific acts of violence! Even those that do recover acknowledge that the rest of their live will be an uphill battle, sometimes a life long one, to achieve that all elusive return to normalcy!
If nothing else comes out of this terrible episode, I hope that Ms. Logan's interview and account of what she endured and went through, will serve not only women experiencing similar situations, but also as education for men, men who too easily committ these crimes without realizing the damage they cause! This should serve as a point of referrence for all men, but especially for those from parts of the world and cultures where women are threated as second class citizens, disenfranchised, and subject to all manner of abuse and violence, hopefully at some point the younger males in these parts of the world realize the cost of their actions and think that these women the mistreat could be their mother, sister or daughter! Ignorance is most often the fuel that lights the fire of violence and abuse!
I wish Ms. Logan all the best, I wish for her with all my heart a good recovery, all the best for her children, husband and rest of family and friends! Be well always, stay safe and take care!
PS Please, please DO NOT pay any attention to any negative comments in the media or elsewhere who might try to blame you, since that is another troubling feature of our modern society, blaming the victim! There are those of us in the public who do understand what Ms. Logan went through
and care for her wellbeing and road to recovery!