Obscene

   Watching The Daily Show the other night, I was introduced to a CBS chief foreign correspondent named Lara Logan. Not familiar, I made all the wrong assumptions based on her looks. She fits all the cliches of corporate, upward mobility: young, attractive, and smart. What I didn't expect was for her to tell the truth so bluntly and then unload on broadcast news like, well, an R.P.G. It's worth viewing the Daily Show segment at: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=173861 and the NYT piece that followed and was published this morning. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23logan.html?ex=1371960000&en=1735742b072af1da&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
   Yes, the NYT piece is titled "Correspondents Say Networks Put Wars on the Back Burner" and details the fact that network coverage "has been 'massively scaled back this year,' according to Andrew Tyndall, a television researcher.  The facts are appalling. The fact CBS tolerates anemic coverage to an American audience that funds this war and pays with the lives of young men and woman is a disgrace. It is obscene and unacceptable that CBS News "no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed," according to the NYT's Brian Stelter.

   If she has any of the geopolitical savvy displayed by Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, Larry LeSueur, or Mary Marvin Breckinridge, then E. R. Murrow would be proud Logan serves in Bagdhad and reports the truth.