Why Isn't Everyone Upset About the Lara Logan Love Triangle Gossip?

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That's what Washington City Paper Angela Valdez is asking to mostly deaf ears. The National Enquirer ran with a story about CBS star Lara Logan having Baghdad romances with CNN's Michael Ware and U.S. State Department contractor Joe Burkett, and the New York Post picked it up from there. The story even made it to Howard Kurtz's CNN show Reliable Sources (video here), where he played Jossip's favorite game: Cover the gossip by reporting on the coverage of the gossip, and asking whether we should be reporting on this at all. Well, perhaps somebody like Kurtz shouldn't be wasting air time with it, but the Enquirer has a history of reporting on our news men and women; it just so happens that Logan's story involves sex, with multiple partners, and she's a pretty lady. So should we be upset by it? Maybe — it's likely Logan got heavier treatment because she's a woman, while plenty of male on-air sex trysts go unreported. But also: She's a high-paid attractive public figure who brought together the words "sex" and "Iraq" for the first time since this war began, and shouldn't the gossip industry be celebrated for that?

Jul 1, 2008 · posted by david · Link · 5 Responses
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Comments (5)

No. 1 thefrontpage says:

Everyone agress that there should be as many stories on LARA LOGAN as possible, every day of the week!

Posted: Jul 1, 2008 at 11:29 am
No. 2 watchmen says:

Read your own story about Madonna and N.Y. Yankee Alex Rodriguez then ask where is the outrage. No one cares because we have become an amoral society…if you aren't cheating you're letting time pass you by. Vows don't mean shit anymore.

Posted: Jul 1, 2008 at 5:56 pm
No. 3 Regis says:

And here I thought that shiny, slightly rumpled on camera look was from Baghdad's heat, not recent sloppy off-camera coitus…

Posted: Jul 1, 2008 at 9:30 pm
No. 4 darcy says:

The loss of a professional, talented & prolific woman. you will be missed by millions of fans. Rest in peace! I just find you on the celeb and millionaire dating site 【 w e a l t h y b e a u t y.com】 and wanna have a chat with you there. What a shame.

Posted: Jul 2, 2008 at 5:30 am
No. 5 Soon says:

Because it's none of my business, and I couldn't care less with whom she dates/sleeps. All that matters to me is that she is good reporter–and she is. That's the only thing that *should* matter.

Posted: Jul 8, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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