It's a religion of getting a piece.

[phanatic]

CBS reporter Lara Logan has recently gone on the record to speak about her brutal sexual assault the hands of an Egyptian mob.

This shit, right here, blows my mind.

Before the assault, Ms. Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced. “I would have paid more

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[jordan179]

How is that *possible*? She's a reporter, a journalist, the *Middle East correspondent* for CBS News, and she *didn't know* about that?

Confirming the ignorance and intellectual bankruptcy of the mainstream media. Seriously -- they know nothing about the world, save for the international hotels.

[arthur_sc_king]

Confirms my belief that most "journalists" take up that profession because they're too fucking stupid to get a job that pays better.

IMHO, journalists are like teachers; our society needs and deserves better, and if we paid for it we'd get better, but because the salaries for most are shit, we get the bottom of the barrel too often.

[foreverbeach]

You kind of have that backwards. Those jobs pay so little because anyone can do them. So people who can also do something else, do. Teaching, being a reporter, painting a house, digging a ditch with a shovel, landscaping... shit anyone can do, therefore won't pay shit.

[arthur_sc_king]

Ahhh, but for teaching and journalism, while anyone can do them, not everyone can do them well. And I think those are two careers where we need much better candidates in there.

Teachers with a clue and journalists with a clue can provide the foundation for an educated and aware citizenry, which is the foundation for a successful democracy. But when teachers and journalists are idiots, you end up with a bunch of clueless yahoos, which is perfect for the plutocracy that America has become.

I prefer the former, rather than the latter.

[foreverbeach]

Quiz:

1. Female reporters are overwhelming:

A) Liberal Democrats
B) Conservative Republicans
C) Other

2. Liberal Democrat Females think sexual oppression is the result of:

A) White Male capitalistic patriarchal insecurity complexes
B) Other

3. This story is an example of:

A) Jesus knocking the door down.
B) Confirmation of worldview.

[phanatic]

Wikipedia makes it clear she did some of her own work in her youth

Days after the attacks on 9/11, Logan begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa to travel to Afghanistan.[3] In November 2001, while in Afghanistan working for GMTV, Logan infiltrated the American-and British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.[3]

Her skill as a reporter persuaded CBS News to offer her an official role within their organisation in 2002. Logan spent much of the next four years reporting from the field, including war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often as an embedded journalist with the American Armed Forces. Many of her reports were for 60 Minutes II, and she was also a regular contributor to shows such as CBS Evening News, The Early Show and Face The Nation. She was promoted to the position of the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News in February 2006.

She's a network talking head.

You say that like there's a difference.

[palm4guava]

Maybe there's knowing about something and then there's KNOWING about something. I'm sure she had some sense of what life is like for women in the middle east before her assault, despite what she said. Obviously, after getting gang-groped she had a better idea.

[evilegg]

“When women are harassed and subjected to this in society, they’re denied an equal place in that society. Public spaces don’t belong to them. Men control it. It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society.”
Did she just compare her body to a public space?

I feel like she is looking for a way to accept some of the blame- like she should have KNOWN BETTER- NOT that a large group of men shouldn't have fist fucked her.

I got turned around in Camden after leaving you and Jason at the battleship, but I didn't stop and ask for directions because I didn't want to assume that getting car jacked only happened to Other People who are less enlightened than I am because they don't believe/understand the Crime Stats they read on wiki.