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CBS Star Correspondent Lara Logan in a Family Way

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Lara Logan, the CBS Iraq correspondent who gave an awesome interview to Jon Stewart and was promptly promoted to "Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent" in D.C., gave her first interview since arriving home, only to find herself mired in a non-scandal about how she—gasp!—slept with some people while she was covering the war. The biggest takeaway? She's pregnant! It wasn't planned, she tells the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, but she says she's "looking forward to being a mom."

Logan, whose divorce from energy lobbyist Jason Siemon is slated to become final in the next two weeks, says she's planning on marrying the father, contractor Joseph Burkett, but doesn't say when. In the meanwhile, we'd all do well to forget that the National Enquirer ever made this a story in the first place: Logan was single when she started seeing Burkett, and Burkett, while technically married, had been separated from his wife for six months. Neither Logan's relationship with Burkett nor her previous relationship with CNN's Michael Ware are anyone's business but her own and the two male principals. Though we do admit that the tale of Burkett and Ware duking it out over Logan in a Baghdad safe house would probably make a pretty awesome template for a screenplay.

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We have a name for woman like this! "Your Slutness"

Posted by: clearvoice on July 8, 2008 5:28 PM

I think calling names is ever right, as in using the word 'slutness'.

However, anyone connected to the bringing us the news in anyway should be held to a higher moral character in everyway. We should be able to trust their character.

Yet we hold the likes of Brittany Spears, and who ever else the papparazzi is chasing this week to be role models, they are just entertainers and should have no other effect on our lives.

I need to know the people I am trusting to deliver "the truth" do have a higher moral content.

Posted by: BumbleBee on July 9, 2008 1:29 PM

Reporters have no problem with invading other peoples privacy and telling the world about it (with their own slant of course). So...I have no problem with all the attention given to a "reporter" with all the juicy details.

Posted by: GNPSTL on July 9, 2008 3:14 PM

Why souldn't her baggae be made public, are they above the law.
They the reporters ruin lives, and also tell lies to inhance their carrers, I have no pity for them.

Posted by: lostfalconone on July 9, 2008 4:39 PM

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I do not believe that any one's private life should be public fodder. What if all of a sudden secretaries were chosen to be written about? Would that all of a sudden change everyone's mind? Just because someone has a public persona such as actors, newspeople, weathermen, etc. does not mean that their personal life should become public as well. However, those that make laws for the people (which is bull___ any way) should be made public and I say that only because I do not want a morally bankrupt person making policy on my behalf. You see - making laws and reporting the news are two entirely different spheres and if I need to explain that further to any one, well......

Posted by: Leeinator13 on July 9, 2008 9:08 PM

This wou;d be laughable if it weren't so pathetic! A news reporter whining about HER dirty laundry being aired? She'll take the high road? That's gotta be a first....normally they're the ones scrounging for the dirty laundry!

Posted by: Debbie Ritchie on July 9, 2008 10:23 PM

Shame on her, now the shoe is on the other foot. She should not be treated any differently, white trash is white trash. The world may be closing around her but her legs are wide open.
She has lost all respect from her followers. I'll have to look to other news stations.

Posted by: colonelnathanjessup on July 9, 2008 10:24 PM

Here is what I say from experience. She hit on my boyfriend in a few countries, who is also a federal contractor, in the past. I think she has been looked at on ethical issues for the things she's done to get stories. There are far greater rumors about her than that. This story is no big shock to any contractor who has dealt with hr overseas...

Posted by: seanalauden on July 10, 2008 2:23 AM

I have always had respect for Lara Logan, and I will continue to do so. How dare anyone judge her. She spent many months in Iraq covering the news. Putting herself in danger so we could know the truth behind this ugly war. Everyone needs a little love and compassion, so why begrudge Lara this happiness. I pray she has a healthy baby and I wish her the best.

Posted by: feather on July 10, 2008 12:44 PM

The life of a reporter should be just as much "fair game" as the lives of those they cover. However, I really believe we are told more information about celebrities than we should care about. Maybe if we stopped giving them so much publicity, the truly obnoxious ones (Brittany, Paris, etc.) might realize they aren't really that important. It would be nice to see more focus on people who do something worthwhile rather than those who think child abandonment, alcoholism, drug use, etc. are lifestyles worthy of our praise.

Posted by: wordwiz on July 10, 2008 1:53 PM

Logan is a celebrity in the public eye. Arguably, the private lives of big shot reporters are fair game given that these professional leeches make their living ferriting out and exposing the public and private lives of public and private citizens for major $$bucks and career advancements. Does anyone seriously believe had this been a Hollywood film star, Donald Trump, a big shot in the Bush adminstration (Condi?), or high profile U.S. military in Iraq that Logan and CBS would have kept it under wraps on the grounds of "privacy"? If extreme libs like married 37 year old Logan can't practice safe sex and be responsible when it comes to "unplanned" pregnancies with married men how does she and her Planned Parenthood ilk expect the underage kids they are habitually peddling condoms to in the public schoolds to be?

Posted by: ardis on July 10, 2008 10:54 PM

We would be a lot better off if the enquirer didn't print most of the things they do, but if you can't take it, don't dish it. Reporters being immune to their lives being public when they screw up? Ha. No pity here. Maybe it'll make reporters think long and hard about reporting the whole story instead of an editorial about whats going on. Start reporting both sides of the story factually and as accurately as possible, then I might 'tsk, tsk' the character bashing. Until then I don't see any character worth standing up for.

Posted by: calista on July 12, 2008 5:08 PM