{"id":30030,"date":"2011-02-17T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30030"},"modified":"2012-11-11T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T03:40:24","slug":"did-cbs-coverup-the-lara-logan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30030","title":{"rendered":"Did CBS Coverup The Lara Logan News?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Graham writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201c[60 Minutes] correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, \u2018Jew! Jew!\u2019 as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo\u2019s main square Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powerful reporting on an important story. Two problems: It didn\u2019t run until yesterday, and CBS didn\u2019t run it. The quote is from the New York Post. And it was The Wall Street Journal that reported \u201cthe separation and assault lasted roughly 20 to 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

But CBS? They sat on their own story. For five days, as reporters reveled amid giddy celebrations in Tahrir Square, and as President Obama praised President Obama\u2019s handling of the Egyptian crisis, CBS reported nothing.<\/p>\n

Only when other media had the story did CBS break the news that its own chief foreign correspondent was the victim of \u201ca brutal and sustained sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Graham writes: \u201c[60 Minutes] correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, \u2018Jew! Jew!\u2019 as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo\u2019s main square Friday.\u201d Powerful reporting on an important story. Two … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9821],"tags":[25507,25492,25328,31562,25508,25493],"class_list":["post-30030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-lara-logan","tag-cbs-coverup","tag-egyptian-president-hosni-mubarak","tag-hosni-mubarak","tag-lara-logan","tag-logan-news","tag-president-hosni-mubarak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t