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Middle East Erupts: Orchestra Seat to the Revolution
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIf the powers that be had realized the global implications of the Internet when it was invented, they probably would have found some way to kill it. Take a look at these early pages and the very first World Wide Web site. Then take a look at this CNN footage of the intrepid Ben Wedeman in Benghazi. In just two decades, the earth has shifted. I suspect the 1989 slaughter of unarmed protesters in Tiananmen Square could not happen today, or at least not without severe international repercussions. Same with Rwanda. One wonders how much sooner Hitler and Stalin might have been stopped if the ...
Lara Logan Was Stripped, Punched, Slapped, Report Says
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsNew details have emerged in the "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" inflicted on CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan in Egypt's Tahrir Square the night President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power. During the Feb. 11 attack, Logan was stripped of her clothes, punched and slapped by the crowd, according to the Times of London (via the Daily Mail.) She was beaten with the poles demonstrators used to fly flags during the protests, and red marks on her body initially believed to be bite marks turned out to be the result of pinching. As she was being abused, the crowd of ...
Opinion: Lara Logan Assault Exposes Egypt's Dirty Little Secret
By not in system - AOL NewsThe sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan during her coverage of the revolution in Egypt is reprehensible. Her courage, for daring to make her story public, is laudable, drawing attention as it does to the contemptuous treatment of women in Egyptian society. Sherry Jones Author Sherry Jones visited Egypt just before the revolution to research her new novel. During the two weeks we spent in Egypt just before the revolution, we heard numerous accounts of male harassment and exploitation of women, especially white women, in that country. In a literary salon in Cairo, women spoke ...
Nir Rosen: 5 Facts on the Journalist Under Fire for Lara Logan Remarks
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsJournalist Nir Rosen has traveled around the world to report on war and other global catastrophes. But now he's under fire for something he said, not because he's in a battle zone. Rosen has apologized for tweeting remarkably tone-deaf remarks after learning that CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan had been sexually assaulted while covering protests in Egypt. Rosen has just resigned from his position as a fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security. So who is Rosen? Here's what Surge Desk has learned. 1. A prolific writer for respected publications Rosen has written for ...
Lara Logan Attack Sparks Ugly Internet Debate, Resignation
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsThe sexual assault of Lara Logan has generated no shortage of Web debate, and much of the dialogue has not been cordial. Logan, who has returned to the U.S. and is expected to be released from the hospital as early as today, "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers," according to a statement from CBS. The network's chief foreign correspondent had previously been detained by Egyptian authorities, raising the question as to whether she should have returned to Cairo's Tahrir Square at all. Here are ...
Lara Logan Hospitalized Following 'Brutal' Sexual Assault in Egypt
By David Knowles - AOL NewsCBS News released a statement today regarding the condition of Lara Logan, its chief foreign affairs correspondent. According to CBS, Logan was separated from her crew, beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the ...
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