OPINION:
Former CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who’s been making the conservative rounds lately, speaking in critical terms about the left-leaning bias of most in the media, nabbed a broadcast gig with Sinclair to go to the border and report the goings-on.
And all the left go, Oh no! Seriously, prepare for the left to go into hyper-drive. Logan is hardly the far-right ideologue the left would like to paint.
She’s going to be a tough one for Democrats to dismiss.
Logan’s worked for “60 Minutes” and CBS for 16 years. She served as a frontline war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. She embedded with the Taliban in Afghanistan; she reported from the streets of Mogadishu on the wreckage of the “Black Hawk Down” helicopter; she suffered personally at the hands of violent Muslims protesting over Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
She’s won several Emmy’s, she’s earned Edward R. Murrow awards; she’s been the recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award and the broadcast news industry’s Pulitzer equivalent, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.
And starting May 1, she’ll spend 90 days producing twice-weekly special reports on the U.S.-Mexico border for Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
Make way for the headliners.
“This is an opportunity to understand first-hand what’s really happening along the border,” Logan said. “As everyone knows, it’s a story of great consequence that touches all of us, and I take my responsibilities as a journalist very seriously, as always.”
And that right there is exactly what the left fears — the truth of the border crisis coming from the lips of someone who can’t be dismissed as a right winger.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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