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How did Lara Logan descend from a shining CBS News foreign correspondent to a peddler of right-wing conspiracy theories?


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/business/media/lara-logan-cbs-news.html

Logan was once poised to be the next Mike Wallace or Dan Rather. Instead, she's now working on a documentary with MyPillow's Mike Lindell on voting machine conspiracies. "When Lara Logan reached the heights of American journalism more than a decade ago, as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, her bosses didn’t think twice about sending her to cover the biggest stories in the world," says The New York Times' Jeremy W. Peters. "Producers clamored to work with her as she landed interviews with a Taliban commander, chronicled the Arab Spring and tracked the Ebola outbreak. Former President Barack Obama called her to wish her well after the most traumatic event of what seemed like a limitless career: She was sexually assaulted while covering a demonstration in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011. But today Ms. Logan cuts a far different figure in American media. Instead of on national news broadcasts, she can be found as a guest on right-wing podcasts or speaking at a rally for fringe causes, promoting falsehoods about deaths from Covid vaccines and conspiracy theories about voter fraud."

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