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Pregnancy is a wonderful, life-changing time for a woman, full of anticipation, joy, trepidation and hope. There is nothing more precious to experience.<br><br>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.<br><br>The thing is, it's not. And Friedman knows it.<br><br>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<br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br>> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:25:26 -0700<br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?<br>> <br>> "I would think that the biggest factor in how much less we've had on the<br>> air really has to do with [war correspondent] Lara Logan's pregnancy than<br>> it does with anything else."<br>> <br>> - CBS News executive VP Paul Friedman, on the sharp drop in coverage of<br>> the Afghanistan war<br>> <br>> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/453933-The_War_You_re_Not_Watching.php<br>> <br>> --------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Concerning the war in Afghanistan . . .<br>> <br>> June 11, 2010 – June 17, 2010<br>> Killed: 17; Wounded in action: 132<br>> <br>> But, by all means, let's hear about Lara Logan's pregnancy.<br>> <br>> Priorities, you know.<br>> <br>> Like I warned earlier . . .<br>> <br>> One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths (or in this case 17) is nothing<br>> more than a statistic.<br>> <br>> As Country Joe McDonald so eloquently suggested in his song about Vietnam<br>> . . .<br>> <br>> "Come on, fathers. Don't hesitate. Send your boys off before it's too<br>> late. Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a<br>> box."<br>> <br>> EFF CBS News!<br>> <br>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>> <br>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br>> <br>> - Unknown<br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br> <br /><hr />The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4' target='_new'>Get busy.</a></body>
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