Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Haifa Street fighting
* 4 Criticism of Michael Hastings article
* 5 Protests in Egypt
* 6 Personal life
* 7 References
* 8 External links
Early life
Logan was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College, and later attended the University of Natal in Durban, graduating in 1992.
Career
Logan has described how she begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa for travel into Afghanistan days after the attacks on 9/11 November 2001, Logan was in Afghanistan working as a correspondent for the British morning program, GMTV. While there, she infiltrated the American- and British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base
Logan next spent much of the next four years reporting from the field, including warzones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often as an embedded journalist with the American Armed Forces.
Logan was promoted to the position of the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News in February 2006.
Haifa Street fighting
In late January 2007, Logan filed a report about fighting along Haifa Street in Baghdad.When CBS News refused to run the report on the nightly news because the footage was "a bit strong," Logan tried to win public support to reverse this decision. Logan said, "I would be very grateful if any of you have a chance to watch this story and pass the link on to as many people you know as possible. It should be seen. And people should know about this."[5][6] Logan went on to use some of the Haifa Street material during a 60 Minutes report about life in Baghdad under the surge.
Criticism of Michael Hastings article
In June 2010, Rolling Stone magazine published an article written by Michael Hastings which quoted four-star Army General Stanley A. McChrystal and his staff contemptuously criticizing civilian government officials and leading to his retirement Logan criticized Hastings on CNN's Reliable Sources, saying there must have been ground rules that would have limited Hastings' reporting on what she characterized as "insults and banter". She said there is an "unspoken agreement" involving "an element of trust" where you don't "blindside" the military and described the general tenor of the article as sensationalistic.in support of Logan's skepticism, ABC News reported that the military said the comments were thought to have been off the record. Rolling Stone contended that all ground rules had been followed.
Matt Taibbi, another journalist for Rolling Stone, criticized Logan for what he characterized as a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of journalism.Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that Hastings was "exposing the relevant secrets of the powerful" whereas Logan was protecting them.However, Logan defended her record for balanced reporting, citing her report of hand grenades killing troops column in The Week argued that in one way Logan was right, quoting Max Fisher of The Atlantic that the military will now "shy away from reporters," making it more difficult to report to the public about the war.
CNN's former chief military correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, weighed in both criticizing and praising Logan and Hastings. He thought it irrelevant that Hastings had never served, as highlighted by Logan, and said the problem involved more than just "insults and banter.
Protests in Egypt
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