Lara Logan and her producer have been put on a leave of absence at CBS. Michael Calderone has all the details at that link. Spoiler alert: Logan’s boss Jeff Fage agrees with pretty much every criticism of Logan’s report.
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srv
I imagine many in the Vatican feel the same way about Francis:
scav
Oo oo, Forget her, the big clue is her producer went with her.
Comrade Mary
She also won’t be hosting the CPJ dinner. Looks like Scott Pelley got the nod.
Anoniminous
So what was Fage doing while Logan, et. al., were running amok?
He was distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated.
Ash Can
Seeing her and her producer both get bounced comes as a pleasant surprised. Maybe there’s someone left at 60 Minutes who still believes in actual journalism after all.
feebog
A leave of absence? Fire them already. Your credibility is already shot, at least try to save a little dignity.
geg6
If she is, in the future, back on the air anywhere but FOX, Dan Rather should go postal.
catclub
@geg6: “Dan Rather should go postal.”
I am pretty sure the guards at CBS headquarters know to definitely NOT let Dan in if he has a bulging trenchcoat.
Violet
Still wonder if the sexual assault she experienced in Egypt has affected her abilities as a journalist. Sounded pretty awful thing to have happen. I can imagine her having some sort of PTSD. Glad they are asking them to take a leave of absence. They should ask them to resign.
ruemara
@Violet: No she was like that before.
BGinCHI
Looks like my sternly worded email to CBS news did the trick.
Don’t they know not to mess with the BJ commentariat?
dedc79
A good start, but if she doesn’t get plain terminated in the most embarrassing way, she’ll come back (if not at CBS, then somewhere else). Hell, even when these types do get terminated in the most embarrassing way, many of them come back.
pablo
Future headline: “Disgraced Journalist Lara Logan Signs Contract with Fox News”.
Hereafter must be referred to as “Disgraced Journalist Lara Logan”.
smintheus
Lara Logan in 2006: “I aspire to be as legendary on ’60 Minutes’ as Mike Wallace.”
Lara Logan, Fame Hunter
Ken T
Do you think the fact that their source referred to himself as The Red Rascal should have been a clue?
(Any Doonesbury reader will get the reference).
kc
Good.
j
Her boss is covering his own ass because he left FOX in 2011, and Logan will lighten her hair to a “blonde-ish” hue and go to FOX as a regular on their Sunday morning talking heads show.
Palin will be fired again.
Mission accomplished.
JustRuss
I have an old friend who’s a producer at CBS, he occasionally FB posts about how proud he is of their journalistic heritage. I’ve been biting my tongue hard since the Logan incident, glad they’re finally doing something about it.
StringOnAStick
My, my outraged email to CBS must have helped with this. Maybe if I had dialed it up another notch or two they would have actually fired them!