1. Lara Logan was born on 29 March 1971 and is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent.
54 Facts About Lara Logan
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Lara Logan's profile rose due to reporting around the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
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Lara Logan was hired as a correspondent for CBS News in 2002, eventually becoming Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent.
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Since June 2022, Lara Logan has been a board member of America's Future, a conservative nonprofit chaired by former Trump administration official Michael Flynn.
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Lara Logan was born in Durban, South Africa, and attended high school at Durban Girls' College.
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Lara Logan graduated from the University of Natal in Durban in 1992 with a degree in commerce.
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Lara Logan earned a diploma in French language, culture and history at Alliance Francaise in Paris.
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Lara Logan worked as a news reporter for the Sunday Tribune in Durban during her studies, then for the city's Daily News.
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Lara Logan worked for CNN, reporting on incidents such as the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the Kosovo War.
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Lara Logan was hired in 2000 by GMTV Breakfast Television as a correspondent; she worked with CBS News Radio as a freelance correspondent.
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Lara Logan spent much of the next four years reporting from the battlefield, including war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often embedded with the United States Armed Forces.
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Lara Logan was a regular contributor to the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and Face the Nation.
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In late January 2007, Lara Logan filed a report of fighting along Haifa Street in Baghdad, but the CBS Evening News did not run the report, deeming it "a bit strong".
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Lara Logan was criticized in June 2010 for her remarks about another journalist, Michael Hastings, and her view that reporters who embed with the military ought not to write about the general banter they hear.
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Lara Logan told CNN that Hastings's reporting had violated an unspoken agreement between reporters who travel with military personnel not to report casual comments that pass between them.
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Glenn Greenwald, commenting on the incident for Salon, wrote that Lara Logan's segment was an example of what journalism had "degenerated into".
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Greenwald said that Lara Logan had done courageous reporting over the years, but had come to see herself as part of the government and military.
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Lara Logan said the crew was blindfolded and handcuffed at gunpoint, and their driver beaten.
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Lara Logan said the incident involved 200 to 300 men and lasted around 25 minutes.
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Lara Logan had been reporting the celebrations for an hour without incident when her camera battery failed.
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Lara Logan felt hands touching her, and can be heard shouting "stop", just as the camera died.
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Lara Logan was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence, alongside which a group of women were camping.
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Lara Logan later said she thought she was dying during the assault.
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Lara Logan was flown back to the US the next day, where she spent four days in the hospital.
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Lara Logan was contacted by President Barack Obama when she arrived home.
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In October 2012, Lara Logan delivered a speech before the annual luncheon of the Better Government Association in which she sharply criticized the Obama administration's statements about the War in Afghanistan and other conflicts in the Arab world.
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In particular, Lara Logan criticized the administration's claims that the Taliban was weakening in Afghanistan, calling such claims "a major lie" made in preparation for ending the US military role in that country.
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Lara Logan stated that she hoped that the United States would "exact revenge" for the 2012 Benghazi attack, in which US diplomatic personnel were attacked and killed in Libya.
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On 8 November 2013, Lara Logan went on CBS This Morning to apologize for an inaccurate 60 Minutes report about the Benghazi attack, which had aired on 27 October.
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Lara Logan indicated that an investigation uncovered that the source of much of her reporting was inaccurate and blamed it on Dylan Davies, manager of the local guard force at the US Embassy in Benghazi.
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Lara Logan said he lied about information and insisted they looked into his credibility and relied on such things as photographs and documents he supplied.
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In hindsight, Lara Logan said they learned that the story told by Davies did not match what he told federal investigators.
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On 26 November 2013, Lara Logan was forced to take a leave of absence due to the errors in the Benghazi report.
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Lara Logan subsequently sued New York Magazine for $25 million for their reporting on the fallout.
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Lara Logan described journalists as "political activists" and "propagandists" against President Donald Trump.
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Lara Logan said that making these comments was akin to "professional suicide".
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Since then, Lara Logan has tweeted right-wing conspiracy theories, such as speculating that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her election to office because of some unspecified plot operated by unknown entities Lara Logan believes control antifa activists.
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In 2020, Logan was hired by Fox News to do a series of shows called Lara Logan has No Agenda.
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On 31 May 2020, Lara Logan tweeted a picture, which she claimed was an antifa riot instruction manual.
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On 4 June 2020, Lara Logan appeared on Hannity to claim that antifa was leaving "pallets of bricks" at protest sites in an attempt to stoke violence and destruction.
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Lara Logan instead focused on the portion of the tweet that mentioned a "traditional command structure" and argued that anarchists thus indeed had organizational structure.
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In September 2021, Lara Logan accused the Biden administration of "hiding evidence" of side effects supposedly caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Lara Logan shared a false story about 27 US Air Force pilots resigning over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate from Real Raw News, a fake news website.
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In November and December 2021, Lara Logan promoted falsehoods and conspiracy theories about AIDS and COVID-19.
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Lara Logan shared articles that disputed the scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS.
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Lara Logan compared NIAID director Anthony Fauci to the Nazi scientist Josef Mengele.
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Lara Logan represents Josef Mengele, Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the second world war and in the concentration camps, and I am talking about people all across the world are saying this.
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Since making her comment, Logan has not appeared as a guest on Fox News, and there have been no new episodes of Lara Logan Has No Agenda.
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In March 2022, Lara Logan said that she had been "dumped" by Fox.
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Lara Logan praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for "not going to stand by while the globalists take over the world" and accused Ukrainians of being "actual Nazis".
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Lara Logan's comments were praised and taken up by Russian government propaganda.
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In March 2022, Lara Logan claimed without evidence that Charles Darwin was employed by the Rothschild family to create his theory of evolution.
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Lara Logan promoted claims that the Rothschild family, a frequent target of antisemitic conspiracy theories, engineered the American Civil War and the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy.
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In 1998, Lara Logan married Jason Siemon, an American from Iowa playing professional basketball in the UK; the marriage ended in divorce in 2008.