[Vision2020] Say What?

[keely emerinemix]

Pregnancy is a wonderful, life-changing time for a woman, full of anticipation, joy, trepidation and hope.  There is nothing more precious to experience.

However, I've experienced my own.  I've attended about a dozen births.  I joyfully hold my friend's hand when she confides in me details of her pregnancy, birth, and blossoming forth as a mother.  I wish Lara Logan well, but I don't expect to have my access to news, particularly news of a war this entire nation is fighting (at least in word), interrupted by the pregnancy of a woman known only to her family, friends, and co-workers.  I suspect that journalist Lara Logan wouldn't want that either -- if her pregnancy were, in fact, relevant to the coverage of the war in Afghanistan.

The thing is, it's not.  And Friedman knows it.

Shame on CBS for proffering such an inane, sexist, stupid, short-sighted and clumsy excuse for failing to do its job.  Logan is owed an apology, and the rest of the nation is owed what only journalists in a free society can provide:  A truthful, fact-filled, penetrating examination and report

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:25:26 -0700
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
> "I would think that the biggest factor in how much less we've had on the
> air really has to do with [war correspondent] Lara Logan's pregnancy than
> it does with anything else."
> 
> - CBS News executive VP Paul Friedman, on the sharp drop in coverage of
> the Afghanistan war
> 
> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/453933-The_War_You_re_Not_Watching.php
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Concerning the war in Afghanistan . . .
> 
> June 11, 2010 – June 17, 2010
> Killed: 17; Wounded in action: 132
> 
> But, by all means, let's hear about Lara Logan's pregnancy.
> 
> Priorities, you know.
> 
> Like I warned earlier . . .
> 
> One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths (or in this case 17) is nothing
> more than a statistic.
> 
> As Country Joe McDonald so eloquently suggested in his song about Vietnam
> . . .
> 
> "Come on, fathers.  Don't hesitate.  Send your boys off before it's too
> late.  Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a
> box."
> 
> EFF CBS News!
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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