Lara Logan, You Suck Big Wang

On 6/29/2010 2:43 PM, Sarah from Eureka wrote:
> Lara Logan, You Suck
> by Matt Taibbi
>
> Lara Logan, come on down! You’re the next guest on Hysterical Backstabbing
> Jealous Hackfest 2010!
>
> I thought I’d seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a
> New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save
> their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign
> Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastings on CNN’s
> “Reliable Sources” program, agreeing that the Rolling Stone reporter
> violated an “unspoken agreement” that journalists are not supposed to
> “embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter.”
>
> Anyone who wants to know why network television news hasn’t mattered since
> the seventies just needs to check out this appearance by Logan. Here’s CBS’s
> chief foreign correspondent saying out loud on TV that when the man running
> a war that’s killing thousands of young men and women every year steps on
> his own d&*$?%k in front of a journalist, that journalist is supposed to eat
> the story so as not to embarrass the flag. And the part that really gets me
> is Logan bitching about how Hastings was dishonest to use human warmth and
> charm to build up enough of a rapport with his sources that they felt
> comfortable running their mouths off in front of him. According to Logan,
> that’s sneaky – and journalists aren’t supposed to be sneaky:

More like a form of well #syndicated Tourette’s syndrome, than sneaky…
you write a “news” article as an attempt at saying something of value.
The story in Rolling Stoned Magazine wasn’t of any great value, it was
gossip for the sake of self aggrandizement.

The writer was seeking fame and fortune. We get almost no pertinent
info from the article.

Managers and military officers always have ideas and views that differ
from their boss. We already know that Obama is *not* respected(you only
need to look at how Obama treats others) to realize #Obama is an
omnipotent arrogant #elitist and that doesn’t gain him any respect.

The article was sensational gossip….. hardly worth anyone trying to
decry free press and risk shutting down all future military embedding
and interview opportunities by thousands of other reporters.

The cost was to everyone except the writer in the Rolling Stoned
Magazine. This idea that “anything” NOTHING is too low to get a story is
less than professional and like Obama’s own short comings, in the end it
will get these people zero respect. The idea isn’t to give the military
a break but to pick your battles and use your power as a writer for good
and NOT only for personal gain. It’s a little like being a nurse, you
can make some money but in the end you don’t ignore people in pain, just
because you can. You are a good person and want to help them all.