Lara Logan Assault: For Female Reporters, the Added Peril of Turbulent Places

fight against women crises, lets try to put full stop for cruel treatment against women
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Its a big bad world out there... people are sheltered and politically correct here in the States. Don't get me wrong.. this is the greatest place on the planet! I am sorry for Ms. Logan but out in the real world ..when you enter the lions den ..you may get eaten!!! There is no tie score, focus groups, lawyers, or aclu out there! just ask the people on the Yacht I hope the best for her!

Why isn't this woman being interviewed now. Get pictures, make her tell her story. She wouldn't hesitate to do it to a rape victim. I want to know her story now, not when its old news. Another example of the "freedom of the press" being selective....what is free about that??????

I only read a few comments about the happening to Lora Logan . Some left me scheachless ! How can anyone be so mean to some one that stands up for us to be safe and to better understand .I felt insulted for her ,I thank her for all she took on for us .Thank you Lora Logan

I think it is horrible - what happened to her. I also think that she was not well-advised by her network to wear what she is seen wearing in this photograph. I was a 19 year old student in Cairo at the start of Mubarak's regime and we were all advised to keep our head covered (especially the blondes bc in Cairo only prostitutes have blonde hair and it sends a strong signal) and also to be covered up to the chin. What she is seen wearing in the photograph may have sent a strong signal to the crowd that she was available. They are largely an uneducated population and those in the square especially were riled up with mixed emotions. They may have attacked her in a full "jeluba" so I am not saying that her clothes alone caused any misfortune. But I do think it is prudent for foreigners to know exactly what the social mores of the visiting country are. The other day I told a visiting Italian teenager, who was considering inking AA on her shoulder, that in the U.S., AA is known as Alcoholics Anonymous and she was happy to know that before inking AA on her shoulder. She decided on A and a butterfly instead. Social mores and cultural differences must be learned and shared. I am surprised that her network didn't better inform her about covering her blonde hair and wearing a more conservative neckline. When I've seen other journalists reporting from that area, they are usually more covered up. I wish Lara Logan a speedy recovery.

The horrific suffering Ms. Logan has endured while risking her life to carry out our message to the world is a shame that we, each and every Egyptian, will carry till those soulless animals will be brought to the extremist of all justice. When the protestors risked their lives to fight for their freedom, for the first time, I was proud to be an Egyptian. After what happened to Ms. Logan, I am ashamed to be one. Those of us, Egyptians, who say that those soulless animals aren't Egyptians are wrong. They are Egyptians and there are so many of them on every corner of our beloved Egypt and over the years have victimized so many. So, Real Egyptians, WAKE UP and stop burying your heads in the sand and fight the real cancer in between us. I wish the sincerest apology on behalf of each one of us could turn back the time and make things right for Ms. Logan today. However, I am so profoundly sorry for the senseless crime that was committed against a courageous and just journalist and an honorable woman like Ms. Logan. My prayers will remain with her throughout her healing journey and until goodness truimphs over all evils.
An Egyptian Woman!

As a Viet Nam vet, I have ambiguous feelings about reporters in war zones. First, my experience taught me the majority of them are there to capture only the tragedy of war...specifically, the civilian casualties...the overall blood & gore. Rarely, did we see the interaction with civilians, passing out food, and providing medical treatment...not sensational enough. Frankly, I think our chances of winning Viet Nam would have been greatly improved without a lot of those idiots. Reporters go into these environments at no less risk than our soldiers and should expect no special treatment. Soldiers have enough on their hands protecting themselves and each other. Women reporters are obviously at greater risk and if they're willing to take that risk...so be it. Some want to be "where the action is." And the result is that this woman was attacked in an area where we are hated, women are nothing more than doormats, stoned and beaten. Yet this reporter felt 'entitled" to return after being detained, blindfolded and abused only days before. Im sorry my "sympathy tokens" wont be used for her and her total lack of common sence. Dont walk into a burning building only to cry when you get burned. And what moron would look at this crowd and allow the mother of his kid and the love of his life to return to such a place??? Make you wonder about the mentality in this household.

the network was idiotic for sending her into a Muslim, male dominated, bigoted society
And she was even more stupid for going
These media talking heads are starting to find out what the rest of the world has been experiencing for a very long time

Women reporting in malicious areas such as the middle east draws some hazard. Reporters should avert in dangerous scenarios such that of Lara Logan's case. Never mind loosing an acclaimed story. The statistics are too high, even from just this year.

Sexual assault against women is a serious problem in the middle east AND in our own nation. College campuses are rife with ruffie-laden cocktails. Police and college administrators look the other way, with a wink and a nod to each other. In their minds, so called "sorostitutes" have it coming. Frat boys refer to frat girls as "slam-boxes". This points to a fundamental view of women as sexual objects and chattel more than forty years after "The Feminine Mystique" was published. What happened to Lara Logan is awful and should not happen to any human being. Sadly, it goes on in our own society as I write.