Lara Logan, a journalist for CBS News, was recovering in an American hospital this week after being sexually assaulted and beaten in Egypt's Tahrir Square by a mob last Friday.
On the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down Logan was working on a "60 Minutes" story surveying the reaction of anti-Mubarak protesters when her crew was suddenly surrounded by a dangerous group of protesters.
Logan was pulled away from her co-workers and brutally attacked until a group of women and Egyptian solders pulled her from the furious mob.
Logan was accused of being an Israeli spy and told to leave Egypt earlier this month. After being detained she went back to the U.S.
Shortly after her return to the U.S. she went back to Cairo before Mubarak fled his office.
Logan has made her name as a war reporter for Britain's GMTV in 2001 at the beginning of the Afghanistan war. Later she reported on the war in Iraq. In 2002 Logan joined CBS News.
Logan has made her name as a war reporter for Britain's GMTV in 2001 at the beginning of the Afghanistan war. Later she reported on the war in Iraq. In 2002 Logan joined CBS News.
There are at leased 140 injured or killed reporters while covering the Egypt protests since Jan. 30 according to the committee to Protect Foreign Journalists.
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This is scary news for journalists. I think that most people don't realize how dangerous journalism can be sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI read more about this story online and I feel journalists should not be bashing her because she was an "attractive woman and mother that shouldn't have been there in the first place." Journalists are opted to do their job, even with dangerous situations coming about.
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