Lara Logan: Hot war corespondent
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Scandal: CBS' New Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent At Center of Divorce War:
Report -Huffington Post
Update: For more
details on the Logan's Baghdad love triangle — revealed to include CNN's
Michael Ware — click here.
Lara Logan, who has
been CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent since February 2006 and has reported
from war zones for 17 years, was recently named Chief Foreign Affairs
Correspondent for the network. But that's not the juiciest news of the week
surrounding Logan, who made headlines last week after appearing on the
"Daily Show" and slamming American coverage of the Iraq war.
According to a
National Enquirer report, Logan is at the center of a bitter divorce between
Joe and Kimberly Burkett. Joe Burkett is a U.S. State Department contractor who
was in Baghdad alongside Logan, which is reportedly where the affair began.
Lara Logan (born 29
March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist, and war
correspondent. She is the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, and
a correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes.
Logan was born in
Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College, and
the University of Natal in Durban, graduating in 1992 with a degree in
commerce. She went on to earn a diploma in French language, culture and history
at the Université de l'Alliance Française in Paris.[1] She married Jason
Siemon, a professional basketball player, in 1998; the marriage ended in
divorce. In 2008 she married Joseph Burkett, a U.S. government defense
contractor from Texas, U.S.A. whom she met in Afghanistan.[5] They live in
Washington, D.C., with their son Joseph Washington V (b. December 2008) and
daughter Lola (b. March 2010),[6] and Burkett's daughter from a previous
marriage.
Logan was criticized
in June 2010 for her remarks about another journalist, Michael Hastings, and
her view that reporters who embed with the military ought not to write about
the general banter they hear. An article by Hastings in Rolling Stone that month
quoted General Stanley A. McChrystal and his staff—comments Hastings overheard
while traveling with McChrystal—criticizing U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and
other officials, after which President Obama fired McCrystal as his commander
in Afghanistan.[12] Logan told CNN that Hastings' reporting had violated an
unspoken agreement between reporters who travel with military personnel not to
report casual comments that pass between them.[13]
Quoting her
statement, "I mean, the question is, really, is what General McChrystal
and his aides are doing so egregious, that they deserved to end a career like
McChrystal’s? I mean, Michael Hastings has never served his country the way
McChrystal has," CNN's former chief military correspondent, Jamie
McIntyre, said that it was indeed egregious, and her comments reinforced the
worst stereotype of embedded reporters. He went on to quote Admiral Mike
Mullen's statement that military personnel are required to be neutral and
should not criticize civilian leaders.[14]
Glenn Greenwald of
Salon wrote that she had done courageous reporting over the years, but had come
to see herself as part of the government and military. -Wikipedia
