Did CBS cover up a story because it didn't fit a predetermined template?
From BostonHerald -- “[60 Minutes] correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, ‘Jew! Jew!’ as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s main square Friday.”
Powerful reporting on an important story. Two problems: It didn’t run until yesterday, and CBS didn’t run it. The quote is from the New York Post. And it was The Wall Street Journal that reported “the separation and assault lasted roughly 20 to 30 minutes.”
But CBS? They sat on their own story. For five days, as reporters reveled amid giddy celebrations in Tahrir Square, and as President Obama praised President Obama’s handling of the Egyptian crisis, CBS reported nothing"
To CBS, the throng of jubilant Egyptian men in Tahrir square celebrating Mubarak's departure validated the media image of middle-eastern men being peace-loving citizens who want nothing but freedom and democracy for the people of Egypt. When that throng turned into a mob of crazed Muslim rapists screaming "Jew, Jew" as they sexually assaulted a white journalist for 30 minute, it seems CBS didn't want to show an image of Muslim men being female-hating thugs. It conflicts with the template...and nothing is allowed to conflict with the approved template.
This is why nobody watches the network news anymore. They can't be trusted to report what happens, only their version of what they'd like to have happened.
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Spiking your own story to avoid the hurtful truth. Sad.
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