Lara Logan and the new CBS News
The New York Times profiles the beautiful and daring CBS News war correspondent Lara Logan this morning. Logan, who joined CBS in 2002, has been targeted as an upcoming star in a revamped CBS Evening News. While it has not yet been revealed what else a renovated Evening News might include, newly installed CBS News president Sean McManus says Logan will have a role because it's obvious that she is one of those who "just jump off the screen and have star value."Logan is a South Africa native who previously reported in Britain for the morning show "GMTV." The British tabloids were brutal: A 2002 Guardian piece reports the tabs were fascinated with Logan's bra size and the fact that she is a former swim suit model. Such rough treatment has likely desensitized her to the Times dismissive characterization of her as an "it girl."
And what of the CBS Evening News makeover? Network chairman Les Moonves seemed to minimize his earlier comments that he wanted to "blow up" the news division, saying now that he wants to "modernize" it. Nevertheless, he also says the days of Walter Cronkite, Tom Browkaw, and Dan Rather are over.
Earlier:
McGinnis out at CBS News (November 17, 2005)
Heyward out, McManus is in at CBS (October 26, 2005)
posted by Dale at 7:21 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for reporters like Lara Logan whom ask the hard question to these Senators, it seems to me that on all of these media News Network, the hardline questions are avoided or mostly never ask or answered, Roberts and Liberman never did answer Lara question instead they chose to avoid it, but at least she did ask it, but as usal they run when the hardline questions are pose to them, my thought is that I think that the media should not give them platform to share their lies on, but to tell the truth is what the public wants that is all nothing more nothing less.
Jerr
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