Former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan said “responsibility for fake news” begins with journalists as she berated the “liberal” media in a recent interview.
“The media everywhere is mostly liberal,” Logan said during a podcast with retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland on Friday.
Logan, who said the interview was “professional suicide for me,” also blamed the media for not pursuing objectivity anymore, arguing journalists have evolved into “political activists.” Logan then compared American media to the Western Wall in Israel where women are given a smaller section of the wall to pray than men.
“To me, that’s a great representation of the American media, is that in this tiny little corner where the women pray you’ve got Breitbart and Fox News and a few others, and from there on, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, Huffington Post, Politico, whatever, right? All of them,” Logan said.
“And that’s a problem for me, because even if it was reversed, if it was vastly mostly on the right, that would also be a problem for me,” she added. “My experience has been that the more opinions you have, the more ways that you look at everything in life.”
Logan, 47, also characterized media reports citing one anonymous source as “horseshit” and said coverage of President Trump has been twisted and that there is no “gray” area.
“I mean, you read one story or another and hear it and it’s all based on one anonymous administration official, former administration official,” she said. “That’s not journalism. That’s horseshit. Sorry. That is absolute horseshit.”
This isn’t the first time Logan has rebuked journalists. In 2010, she bashed Rolling Stone’s Michael Hastings after he authored a report that ultimately caused four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal to resign from leading U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The report included controversial comments from McChrystal and his aides rebuking members of the Obama administration, including former Vice President Joe Biden.
“Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has,” she told CNN at the time.
Logan’s own reporting has also come under fire. For example, she took a leave of absence at CBS after the network aired a botched report on the September 2012 Benghazi attacks where four Americans were killed. Logan’s reporting cited an interview with security contractor Dylan Davies, who told her he was at the compound at the time of the attack. However, he had previously told the FBI, the State Department, and others the opposite was true.
Logan apologized multiple times for the episode.
“In this case, we were wrong. We made a mistake,” Logan said. “That’s disappointing for any journalist. It’s very disappointing for me.”
Logan is no longer employed by CBS, the network confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. Although CBS said Logan’s departure occurred in 2018, her exit was not reported until Logan’s latest remarks about the media circulated. Variety was the first to report on Logan’s employment with CBS.
[Opinion: Bless CBS’s Lara Logan for calling out liberal media bias]
