Matt Taibbi rips Lara Logan an New One
“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 dick 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…(read full article)
“What I find is the most telling thing about what Michael Hastings said in your interview is that he talked about his manner as pretending to build an illusion of trust and, you know, he’s laid out there what his game is… That is exactly the kind of damaging type of attitude that makes it difficult for reporters who are genuine about what they do, who don’t — I don’t go around in my personal life pretending to be one thing and then being something else. I mean, I find it egregious that anyone would do that in their professional life.” …(read full article)
July 1st, 2010 at 2:30 am
Didn’t Lara Logan have sex with a soldier while reporting during the Iraq war? LOL Anything that woman has to say is gibberish. I would turn to Fox News before I turned to anything that woman has to say. Lara, you do suck… I am sure your hubby has brainwashed you with his miliatary propaganda. Btw I am glad you are not reporting in Afghanistan for CBS. You would probably end up pregnant again with a diff soldiers baby. Way to boost the troops morale by spreading your legs. Hooo Ha…
July 1st, 2010 at 2:30 am
Brilliantly said. I note that she’s married to a defense contractor. Because being figuratively in bed with the topic you’re covering apparently wasn’t enough for her.
July 1st, 2010 at 2:31 am
Well….Now I guess we know how she got to be the “chief” foreign correspondent. And how she got those rug burns on her knees! Keep up the great work, Matt. Keep reminding everyone what good journalism is all about. You’re the best!
July 1st, 2010 at 2:33 am
I agree with the substance of what you say, Matt. What I don’t dig at all is the dickswinging bullshit spit-on-the-girl manner in which you say it. Stick to the substance and lose the testosterone-fuelled frothing at the mouth. You’ve lost some credibility with me by doing it.