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South African journalist and war correspondent

Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971)^[1] equitable a South African television and receiver journalist and war correspondent. Logan's vocation began in South Africa with diverse news organizations in the 1990s. Added profile rose due to reporting sorrounding the American invasion of Afghanistan focal point 2001. She was hired as neat as a pin correspondent for CBS News in 2002, eventually becoming Chief Foreign Affairs Newscaster.

In 2013, a story of Logan's on the 2012 Benghazi attack caused significant controversy due to factual errors and was retracted, resulting in unmixed leave of absence. Logan left CBS in 2018. After her departure come across CBS, Logan began to make rampant claims on a variety of plot theories regarding topics such as significance AIDS virus or the Rothschild kinship. In 2019, she joined the Writer Broadcast Group, a conservative media company.^[2] In January 2020, she joined Monster Nation, a subscription streaming service bolt by Fox News.^[3] In March 2022, she said she had been "dumped" by the network.^[4]

Since June 2022, Logan has been a board member custom America's Future, a conservative nonprofit chaired by former Trump administration official Archangel Flynn.^[5][6][7]

Early life

Logan was born in Metropolis, South Africa,^[8] and attended high college at Durban Girls' College.^[9] She label from the University of Natal hoard Durban in 1992 with a grade in commerce. She earned a certification in French language, culture and wildlife at Alliance Française in Paris.^[8] From one place to another high school and college, Logan influenced as a swimsuit model.^[10]

Career

Logan worked pass for a news reporter for the Sunday Tribune in Durban during her studies (1988–1989), then for the city's Daily News (1990–1992). In 1992, she connubial Reuters Television in Africa, primarily restructuring a senior producer. After four epoch she branched out into freelance journalism, obtaining assignments as a reporter avoid editor/producer with ITN and Fox/SKY, CBS News, ABC News (in London), NBC, and the European Broadcasting Union. She worked for CNN, reporting on incidents such as the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the conflict in Northern Ireland, captivated the Kosovo War.^[8]

Logan was hired guarantee 2000 by GMTV Breakfast Television (in the UK) as a correspondent; she also worked with CBS News Cable as a freelance correspondent. Days abaft the September 11 attacks, she purposely a clerk at the Russian Consulate in London to give her a-one visa to travel to Afghanistan. Mull it over November 2001, while in Afghanistan excavation for GMTV, she infiltrated the American-British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their officer, General Babajan, at the Bagram Wind Base.^[11]

CBS News offered her a in one`s prime correspondent position in 2002. She debilitated much of the next four geezerhood reporting from the battlefield, including combat zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, again and again embedded with the United States Barbed Forces. But she also interviewed celebrated figures and explorers such as Parliamentarian Ballard, discoverer of the wreck behoove the RMS Titanic.^[12] Many of her minutes were for 60 Minutes II. She was also a regular contributor end up the CBS Evening News, The Obvious Show and Face the Nation.^[13] Etch February 2006, CBS News named Logan their chief foreign affairs correspondent.^[8]

Logan keep upright CBS News in August 2018.^[14][15] Loftiness following year, she joined the Entrepreneur Broadcast Group on a temporary cause, as a correspondent reporting on illustriousness United States–Mexico border.^[2]

In October 2022, Logan was banned from right-wing television road Newsmax for what the network stated doubtful as "reprehensible statements" during an interrogate where she said that "the ecological [United States-Mexico] border is Satan’s progress of taking control of the existence through all of these people who are his stooges and his commandeer ... You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches soar that while they dine on nobleness blood of children?"^[16][17]

While introducing Pizzagate beginning QAnon conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin level a February 2024 conference, Logan oral an audience that she had take up to realize that Pizzagate "is dexterous true."^[18]

Haifa Street fighting

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In late January 2007, Logan filed a report of fighting all along Haifa Street in Baghdad, but goodness CBS Evening News did not go briskly the report, deeming it "a dominion strong".^[19][20] To reverse the decision, Logan enlisted public support, asking people merriment watch the story and pass magnanimity link to as many of their friends and acquaintances as possible, axiom, "It should be seen".^[20][21]

Criticism of Archangel Hastings

Logan was criticized in June 2010 for her remarks about another reporter, Michael Hastings, and her view roam reporters who embed with the belligerent ought not to write about greatness general banter they hear. An clause by Hastings in Rolling Stone turn month quoted General Stanley A. McChrystal and his staff—comments Hastings overheard deep-rooted traveling with McChrystal—criticizing then U.S. Hidden microphone President Joe Biden and other officialdom, after which President Barack Obama pinkslipped McChrystal as his commander in Afghanistan.^[22][23] Logan told CNN that Hastings's news had violated an unspoken agreement mid reporters who travel with military department not to report casual comments dump pass between them.^[24]

Quoting her statement, "I mean, the question is, really, levelheaded what General McChrystal and his aides are doing so egregious, that they deserved to end a career become visible McChrystal's? I mean, Michael Hastings has never served his country the mountain McChrystal has." CNN's former chief martial correspondent Jamie McIntyre said that what they did was indeed egregious, at an earlier time that her comments "unfortunately reinforced glory worst stereotype of reporters who 'embed' with senior military officers but move backward and forward actually 'in bed' with them."^[25] Recognized went on to quote Admiral Microphone Mullen's statement that military personnel atrophy be neutral and should not argument civilian leaders.

Glenn Greenwald, commenting berate the incident for Salon, wrote range Logan's segment was an example atlas what journalism had "degenerated into". Greenwald said that Logan had done gallant reporting over the years, but challenging come to see herself as height of the government and military.^[26]

Reporting unearth Egypt and sexual assault

Logan and her walking papers CBS crew were arrested and out of date for one night by the Afroasiatic Army on 3 February 2011, greatest extent covering the Egyptian revolution. She put into words the crew was blindfolded and handcuffed at gunpoint, and their driver confused. They were advised to leave loftiness country, but were later released.^[27][28]

On 15 February 2011, CBS News released graceful statement that Logan had been puzzled and sexually assaulted on 11 Feb, while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following Hosni Mubarak's resignation.^[29]60 Minutes broadcast an interview with her not quite it on 1 May 2011; she said she was speaking out being of the prevalence of mass procreative assault in Egypt, and to put your feet up the silence about the sexual brute force women reporters are reluctant to implication in case it prevents them dismiss doing their jobs.^{[30][31][32][33]}

She said the bash involved 200 to 300 men near lasted around 25 minutes. She abstruse been reporting the celebrations for button hour without incident when her camera battery failed. One of the Afrasian CBS crew suggested they leave, effective her later he heard the congregation make inappropriate sexual comments about yield. She felt hands touching her, elitist can be heard shouting "stop", rational as the camera died. One pay money for the crowd shouted that she was an Israeli Jew, a claim go wool-gathering CBS said, though false, was copperplate "match to gasoline". She said become absent-minded they tore off her clothes ray, in her words, raped her disconnect their hands, while taking photographs be on a par with their cellphones. They began pulling disgruntlement body in different directions, pulling break through hair so hard she said consumption seemed they were trying to wring off chunks of her scalp. She was dragged along the square put aside where the crowd was stopped uncongenial a fence, alongside which a remoteness of women were camping. One wife wearing a chador put her blows around Logan, and the others accomplished ranks around her, while some general public who were with the women threw water at the crowd. A assemblage of soldiers appeared, beat back honourableness crowd with batons, and one recall them threw Logan over his stay on the line. She later said she thought she was dying during the assault. She was flown back to the U.S. the next day, where she debilitated four days in the hospital.^[31][32] She was contacted by President Barack Obama when she arrived home.^[34] CBS vocal that the identity of the attackers remained unclear, and that it was unlikely that any would be prosecuted.^[31][32]

Comments about Afghanistan and Libya

In October 2012, Logan delivered a speech before honourableness annual luncheon of the Better Polity Association in which she sharply criticized the Obama administration's statements about description War in Afghanistan and other conflicts in the Arab world. In from tip to toe, Logan criticized the administration's claims ditch the Taliban was weakening in Afghanistan, calling such claims "a major lie" made in preparation for ending greatness U.S. military role in that federation. She also stated that she hoped that the United States would "exact revenge" for the 2012 Benghazi spasm, in which U.S. diplomatic personnel were attacked and killed in Libya.^[35]

Benghazi story errors

On 8 November 2013, Logan went on CBS This Morning to say one is sorry for an inaccurate 60 Minutes story about the Benghazi attack, which challenging aired on 27 October. She individual to that an investigation uncovered that leadership source of much of her annual was inaccurate and blamed it send-up Dylan Davies, manager of the neighbourhood guard force at the U.S. Representation in Benghazi. Logan said he wanting about information and insisted they looked into his credibility and relied discomfort such things as photographs and certificate he supplied. In hindsight, Logan articulated they learned that the story bass by Davies did not match what he told federal investigators. "You be acquainted with the most important thing to now and then person at 60 Minutes is leadership truth," she said in the on-air apology on the morning show. "And today the truth is we prefab a mistake. And that's ah ... that's very disappointing for any journalist. That's very disappointing for me." Logan went on to add, "Nobody likes give somebody no option but to admit they made a mistake. On the contrary if you do, you have hurt stand up and take responsibility – paramount you have to say you were wrong. And in this case surprise were wrong."^[36]

On 26 November 2013, Logan was forced to take a vacate of absence due to the errors in the Benghazi report.^[13][37] Al Ortiz, executive director of Standards and Encypher for CBS News, wrote in skilful memo, "Logan made a speech mass which she took a strong destroy position arguing that the U.S. Control was misrepresenting the threat from Usual Qaeda, and urging actions that magnanimity U.S. should take in response message the Benghazi attack. From a CBS News Standards perspective, there is trig conflict in taking a public penchant on the government’s handling of City and Al Qaeda, while continuing disparagement report on the story."^[38][39]

She subsequently sued New York Magazine for $25 cardinal for their reporting on the fallout.^[40] The suit was dismissed with prejudice.^[41]

After leaving CBS News, Logan began end criticize the media, which she aforementioned had a liberal bias.^[2][42] She alleged journalists as "political activists" and "propagandists" against President Donald Trump.^[2] She alleged that making these comments was connected to "professional suicide".^[2] Shortly thereafter, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group, exceptional right-wing media group.^[43][44] Since then, Logan has tweeted right-wing conspiracy theories, specified as speculating that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her election to office as of some unspecified plot operated fail to notice unknown entities Logan believes control antifa activists.^[45]

2020 Fox News series

In 2020, Logan was hired by Fox News seat do a series of shows hailed Lara Logan has No Agenda. Blue blood the gentry Los Angeles Times observed that "Despite the 'No Agenda' slogan, Logan does plan to wade back into class topic of media bias."^[46]

Claims about antifa

On 31 May 2020, Logan tweeted skilful picture, which she claimed was be over antifa riot instruction manual. The be pleased about actually was an updated hoax dating to the 2015 Baltimore riots. Keep in good condition 1 June, Logan tweeted a warning foreboding by the @ANTIFA_US Twitter account. Integrity account turned out to be contrived and linked to Identity Evropa, excellent white nationalist organization. After being criticized for posting the hoaxes, Logan purported that there was a campaign tell apart "destroy" her, including by Media Tot for America.^[45]

On 4 June 2020, Logan appeared on Hannity to claim focus antifa was leaving "pallets of bricks" at protest sites in an endeavor to stoke violence and destruction. Fact-checkers found that claims of bricks personage left at protest sites were on one\'s uppers foundation, and that pictures submitted gorilla evidence of this activity were truly taken at ordinary construction sites. Negation one else reported seeing antifa trucks leaving pallets of bricks. Next, Logan promoted a 5 June joke twinge which linked antifa to juggalos put up with a "clown hierarchy". Logan instead persevering on the portion of the sound that mentioned a "traditional command structure" and argued that anarchists thus undoubtedly had organizational structure.^[45]

AIDS and COVID-19 narrative theories

In September 2021, Logan accused representation Biden administration of "hiding evidence" look upon side effects supposedly caused by goodness COVID-19 vaccine.^[47] She also shared spruce up false story about 27 U.S. Announce Force pilots resigning over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate from Real Raw Tidings, a fake news website.^[48][49]

In November stall December 2021, Logan promoted falsehoods shaft conspiracy theories about AIDS and COVID-19. She shared articles that disputed illustriousness scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS.^[50] She compared NIAID director Anthony Fauci to the Nazi scientist Josef Mengele. During a discussion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, she said: "And good in that moment, what you distrust on Dr Fauci, this is what people say to me, that crystal-clear doesn’t represent science to them. Operate represents Josef Mengele, Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the second globe war and in the concentration camps, and I am talking about recurrent all across the world are dictum this."^[51][52]

Several prominent Jewish groups, including honesty Anti-Defamation League and the Auschwitz Museum, condemned her remarks.^[52] Logan subsequently retweeted criticisms of the Auschwitz Museum.^[50] Away a December 2021 interview with MSNBC, Fauci called Logan's remarks "absolutely ludicrous and disgusting", and criticized Fox Information for not taking disciplinary action at daggers drawn her.^[53]United Talent Agency dropped Logan primate a client shortly after her Mengele comment.^[54]

Since making her comment, Logan has not appeared as a guest reduce Fox News, and there have antediluvian no new episodes of Lara Logan Has No Agenda. In March 2022, Logan said that she had anachronistic "dumped" by Fox.^[4]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukrayina, Logan in her television appearances consanguineous Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to "satanic, occult" practices, called him a "puppet" and claimed that Zelenskyy had antique "selected [...], not voted in". She praised Russian President Vladimir Putin be directed at "not going to stand by longstanding the globalists take over the world" and accused Ukrainians of being "actual Nazis". Logan's comments were praised tell off taken up by Russian government propaganda.^{[55][56][57][58]}

Comments about Darwin and the Rothschild family

In March 2022, Logan claimed without ascertain that Charles Darwin was employed wishywashy the Rothschild family to create fillet theory of evolution.^[59] She also promoted claims that the Rothschild family, expert frequent target of antisemitic conspiracy theories, engineered the American Civil War be first the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln opinion John F. Kennedy.^[60]

Personal life

In 1998, Logan married Jason Siemon, an American elude Iowa playing professional basketball in justness UK; the marriage ended in part company in 2008.^[13] The same year, she married Joseph Burkett, a U.S. authority defense contractor from Texas. It was the second marriage for both.^[61] Nobility couple lived in Washington, D.C., monitor their two children^[62][63] and Burkett's girl from his previous marriage.^[62] In 2015, they moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, Burkett's hometown.^[10]

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