Comments on: Isn’t Anyone Bothered by the Lara Logan Sex Scandal Coverage?

By: Cuban Pete

Cuban Pete — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:07:38 +0000

Look, until someone shows up with some nice hidden video of Lara taking the big one, don't call me. NOW, when the video shows up......YAAAAH BABY!!!!

By: Tom Paine

Tom Paine — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:06:22 +0000

She is gorgeous and smart which makes her INTERESTING not evil. If she was stupid, she'd still be on TV but if she was ugly no men would care.

By: Bluto

Bluto — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:06:47 +0000

dITTOS TO JANE. i WOULD LIKE TO EMBELLISH: "iGNORANT TRAMP." fURTHER, SHE IS NON-AMERICAN AND ANTI-AMERICAN.

By: jane doe

jane doe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:09:02 +0000

Big deal. She's a tramp. Why should anyone care?

By: edwardallen

edwardallen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:17:49 +0000

Given the Judy Miller scandal, it is good to see the media aggressively outing these predatory reporters before they can do real damage to the companies that employ them.

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:15:13 +0000

Angela: thanks for the tip! I hesitate to say "More please" because I don't actually like sleaze, but if it's to correct an imbalance, then it's justified. And most of the journalists are male, I guess, so, statistically, most of the unchastity will be on that side. Probably even more than the proportion of the sexes would imply.

By: PL

PL — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:21:50 +0000

anyone who doubts Logan's intelligence needs to pull up the Stewart interview and just listen to it... People, hot or not, having affairs in a war zone is a story?...And her shot at CBS was not at all a minor thing. It was a shockingly direct disparaging of her bosses' news judgment and integrity. these revelations coming on the heels of that appearance have the whiff of a calculated smear.

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:44:21 +0000

>>>I criticize her on her choice of men. Couldn’t you have found some guy in Iraq who was an actual government employee, and not a contractor?

Excuse me, I am a contractor over here, and am offended by this. What are you trying to say? I am a military veteran, having served in Iraq, and yes, got a job asa contractor. What, because I am not a govt. employee I am garbage? We make much more than govt. employees, BTW, as they are taxed and we are not. Why the hatred against contractors? Jerk.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:26:14 +0000

Get over it. She's a public figure and ergo it's fair game to talk about her sex life. Is it tacky? Absolutely. Is it relevant? Absolutely not. But it's no more shocking than the "she's a b*tch" stories we read about Couric, the "you'll never guess who Jennifer Aniston is shtupping", and don't I seem to recall credible journalist Babs Walters writing about her trist with a married man? As a man, I'm offended you're pulling the "shes getting it because she's a hot woman" card. With being a hot public personality come public scrutiny. Lara's a big girl, she doesn't need her sex whining for her.

By: feral beast

feral beast — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:37 +0000

Er, didn't the very same Post story highlight a fling of CNN's Michael Ware- a cuckolded MALE correspondent? (he was mocked about brawling with the contractor)
It goes to show that almost any face on the telly, even the broken-nosed Ware, gerts treated as a celebrity. They earn their salaries, goes with the territory.
And earlier, also from Baghdad's Green Zone, tho'increasingly blue-balled territory at this rate, there was the NY Times scandal when a new bureau chief was FIRED for allegedly informing the wives of two prominent war correspondents, the wooly John Burns and his pistol-packing sidekick, Dexter Filkins, that their husbands had strayed.

By: thefrontpage

thefrontpage — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:14:45 +0000

Everyone agress that there should be stories about LARA LOGAN in the media every single day of the week. There should be LARA LOGAN news reports, LARA LOGAN tabloid reports, reports about her past as a swimsuit model, picture galleries, web sites devoted only to Lara Logan, YouTube video clips and video pages about Lara Logan, blogs about Lara Logan, videoes on MySpace and Facebook about Lara Logan, community groups devoted solely to Lara Logan, and endless stories about her personal life on CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, HN, MSNBC, Fox News, the Weather Channel and the History Channel. And National Geographic should do an article for its next issue solely on LARA LOGAN.

By: Angela Valdez

Angela Valdez — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:08:21 +0000

Robert, here's your turnabout, via Alex Balk http://www.observer.com/node/32727

By: edward

edward — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:49:36 +0000

What evidence do you have that Lara Logan is smart? Just because she appears near the front lines for a picture in a flak suit doesn't make her a reporter of any note. Nor have any of her reports been that ground-breaking. That would suggest other reasons she has been promoted, and filings in court suits are fair game. I see nothing here to indicate she has been at all treated unfairly. Are the court filings incorrect?

By: Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:21:46 +0000

She probably wouldn't have gotten her job if she hadn't been hot. You have to take the good with the bad. And when you're hot, you have to expect to be treated differently. Sometimes the different treatment is to your benefit. Sometimes it's not. That's life.

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:56:06 +0000

I'm bothered by the coverage, which I just now read about from browsing Google News references to [The Daily Show] (I wondered if the show was off because of the S A G contract thing, since my British TV guide promised me a "Global Edition" on channel "More4" that didn't show up - I don't see anything, I suppose I should check the show's actual own site.) I thought that what she said on [The Daily Show] wasn't so hard against her TV station. I figure every reporter would like to file an important news story every night, maybe live from outside a building where important people are. It's competitive. You don't get as much screen time as you wish for. And if they didn't want to cover Iraq at all, well, they wouldn't pay her rent there. (Or was she embedded or something and that didn't apply? And I don't mean "embedded" as a pun.) In Scotland I'm not really aware of her work, so I go by how Jon Stewart treated her, as a serious journalist, and how she responded. Stewart can kid the nation's leading lights appallingly if they can take it, and can treat a waste-of-oxygen Reaganomicist civilly, but you can tell who is and isn't worth listening to and learning from. I got a strong feeling this year that Stewart doesn't like Hillary Clinton, and now neither do I, but I think you also can tell a fair criticism from a cheap shot. But critics opening up Lara Logan's private life - or feeling a need to do so to squash her and detract from what she says - well, that's how America works now. I suppose it's not wholly new, either. The establishment, the military-industrial-government-entertainment complex. But I think turnabout is fair play. There are or have been plenty of male journalists over in Iraq, less critical of how the war was or is going, and without any wives they may or may not be married to along with them. So let's hear how they spent -their- evenings. And whether they paid cash.