Lara Logan, CBS chief foreign correspondent, has claimed for a few days now that one of her reporting pieces (dubbed “the battle for Haifa Street”) was being quashed by her bosses, an accusation that has received some supportive dissemination.
The wind is turning for Logan, however. The blogosphere has picked up on the story, and added an interesting, yet disturbing twist: some of the footage in her piece showing the dead bodies if Iraqi soldiers, seems to have been culled from an Al-Qaeda propaganda video shot with a cell phone camera.
CBS, who first responded to Logan’s accusations by explaining that while the footage was too upsetting to be broadcast on their evening news show,it was still made available on their website, is now claiming on their blog that the incriminating footage was not taken or obtained from Al-Qaeda. In other words, don’t worry about the identical footage, and fret not about the little Al-qaeda logo in the upper left corner.
Has CBS learned anything from their little Rathergate episode (you know, the whole “fake but accurate” farce?) As the guys at the Pravda would say… Nyet!
