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International News Title: Commie Broadcast System complicit in news coverup of Egyptian anti-Semetic gang rape Dateline Egypt: [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 Cairos main square Friday. Powerful reporting on an important story. Two problems: It didnt run until yesterday, and CBS didnt 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 Obamas handling of the Egyptian crisis, CBS reported nothing. Only when other media had the story did CBS break the news that its own chief foreign correspondent was the victim of a brutal and sustained sexual assault. Five days of silence not even 60 Minutes coverage of the Egypt story. No mention of the mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy who attacked their own reporter. How is that not news? Some women journalists, like WGBHs Callie Crossley, complain that CBS should never have reported the story, that Logan should be treated like a rape victim in the United States. But Im with liberal columnist Richard Cohen of The Washington Post: The sexual assault of a woman in the middle of a public square is a story 41;.41;.41;.41; particularly because the crowd in Tahrir Square was almost invariably characterized as friendly and out for nothing but democracy, Cohen wrote. Watching the same complicit media we all saw, Cohen notes most journalists covered the mobs as if they were reporting from Times Square on New Years Eve, stopping only at putting on a party hat. Even CBSs own statement said Logan was covering the jubilation and was attacked amidst the celebration. Having 200 good guys gang assault a female reporter while screaming Jew! Jew! doesnt fit the narrative. Is that why CBS sat on the story? Or is it the cultural issue? A rape in a bar is a sex crime. But a pack of political protesters who rape a Jew in public is a story about culture. Rapes happen everywhere, its true. And political protests are a global phenomenon, too. But as Slate.coms Rachel Larimore says, theres a huge difference between flipping over a truck and spraying friends with beer and prying a woman away from her security detail and sexually assaulting her. Larimore wonders if Logans attack [is] an anomaly, or is it to be expected from men raised in a culture that treats women as lesser citizens? I would point her to the 2008 broadcast on the Al-Aribiya network of a female (!) lawyer arguing that its OK for Muslim men to sexually assault Israeli women, because the Jews have raped the land. Or this weeks story of Hena, the 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl raped by a family member, then sentenced to 100 lashes by Muslim authorities for having sex out of wedlock. After 80 lashes, Hena died. There are stories like this and Logans every week, all with the same cultural denominator. For the record, Logan isnt Jewish. And because shes not Muslim, theres no possibility shell face the lash. But Lara Logan is a story. Why did CBS work so hard not to tell it?
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