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Lara Logan

CBS News issued a statement today that the correspondent Lara Logan has been raped and to cover the joy in Egypt 's Tahrir Square, where President Hosni Mubarak resigned Friday. In the crush of the crowd of 200, Logan has been separated from her news team and their safety:
He was surrounded and hit by a brutal attack and sustained sexual and beaten before being rescued by a group of women and about 20 Egyptian soldiers. It binds with the team from CBS, he returned to his hotel and returned to the U.S. its first flight the next morning. He is currently recovering in hospital.
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CBS News said it did not provide further statements and that Logan and his family had requested privacy.
CBS did not hesitate to leave, including a picture of Logan moments before she was attacked, "surrounded by men and scared. This seems to be a visual sordid detail that does not warrant inclusion in history. Huffington Post has been seized ' larger picture and slap on the homepage, such as red, screaming, "the break. Lauren Logan raped in Egypt The Egyptian men, clearly visible in this photo now seems to be involved in the assault.
I 'm not necessarily surprised by the Huffington Post' s treatment of news, but I was surprised that the employer's Logan 'reveal the first news. Although the physical attack CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper, attracted the attention of the media, sexual violence is a more private affair. Traditionally, there is great sensitivity s in media all over the disclosure of the names of rape victims.
Rumors probably had traveled, and CBS News felt compelled to issue the first report. Certainly not the kind of story that every news organization wants to break, not a story that every journalist wants to be in the middle.
Logan and his crew had already been arrested and forced to leave the country. She spoke to Foster Kamer this experience of "Esquire" on Thursday night, before returning to Cairo. Re-reading the piece now, in which he said "No Fear" is heartbreaking.
After the initial fear of detention Kamer Logan asked if it was hard to go back. It 's Relay Twitter through parts of their conversation, which did not in this story. Logan says:
"We made sure that the Egyptian embassy in the United States knows that we must go. I 'm not the only one to return, my producer came to me ...
... And with my husband ... We made this decision together. And with my boss. "