Did Lara Logan's producer husband put her in harms way?

[yelligilli]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/02/lara-logan-expected-to-leave-hospital-today--/1?csp=hf

...At least 140 reporters since January 30 have been injured or killed while covering the Egypt protests, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said, reports AFP. Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour have spoken of being surrounded and, in Cooper's case, punched by protesters.

The night before she was attacked, Logan spoke to The Politics blog of Esquire magazine. She was with her producer and her husband Joseph Burkett, and recounted her earlier trip that resulted in her team being taken by soldiers and marched at gunpoint to their hotel. "We were accused of being more than journalists," Logan reported. "Very frightening suggestions were being made, suggestions that could be very dangerous for us."

The following day soldiers detained her and the crew in Cairo and interrogated them overnight, then told them to leave Egypt. "We were detained by the Egyptian army," Logan told The Politics blog.

"Arrested, detained, and interrogated. Blindfolded, handcuffed, taken at gunpoint, our driver beaten. It's the regime that arrested us." She added, "They kept us in stress positions -- they wouldn't let me put my head down. It was all through the night. We were pretty exhausted."...

[blondeatlast]

1. FFS. I'm fucking tired of treating idle speculation as worthy of discussion. nt

[pinboy3niner]

2. +100

And the suggestion--which is NOT raised in the linked article--is ridiculous on its face.

[peace13]

3. Lara has been to war and back many times.

If she stopped to think about being in harms way we wouldn't know half of what went on in Iraq. She brought the war to the people. She is a fighter that is for sure. I wish her a speedy recovery, body and mind.

[Pathwalker]

4. I guess you didn't see her say on Charlie Rose that SHE felt the need

to return? That she felt it was HER duty, and HER responsibility...
:puke:

[pinboy3niner]

8. "I believe that this is something that I was meant to do."

That's what Lara Logan said in an interview about how she felt about about covering events that could be dangerous for her as a journalist.

The clip of that quote was replayed on MSNBC this morning and probably will be repeated in their news segments throughout the day.

[seabeyond]

5. so now, not only her fault but hubby fault for not "protecting" her well enough. how about rapists

why dont we just blame them..... for raping.

[Chorophyll]

6. +100,000,000

[AngryAmish]

9. well said

[Statistical]

10. Exactly. I doubt she would have wanted her husband to force her out of the country

"for her own good".

Leave the reporting to the men, and go watch some sex in the city re-runs.

[seabeyond]

15. i mean.... jeeezus. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Her husband is not her producer

You've misinterpreted "She was with her producer and her husband Joseph Burkett". He is (was?) a 'war contractor'. However, he did go with her, but it's not like he could "put her in harm's way".

On whom she was traveling with: "I'm not the only one going back, my producer is coming with me. And with my husband. We made this decision together. And with my boss."

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/lara-logan-egypt-assault-5241788#ixzz1EEX9tUNH

[sufrommich]

11. The mob that attacked her put her in harms way. Why so much

blame the victim here?

[blondeatlast]

12. God forbid she should make such a decision (to report from the scene)

of her own free will. It's not her place, after all.:eyes:

[CreekDog]

13. i thought those who assaulted her are responsible for what happened to her

:wtf:

[Chorophyll]

14. One more time:

Women (and even men) get raped every day, everywhere. Even in their own homes.

The RAPISTS are responsible for their own actions.