Charlie Rose

nitramm  02/21/2011 07:40 PM Report

this is now a forboding interview in light of the events that happeened to her recently. When is a story too dangerous?

BENEZRAA  02/10/2011 12:19 AM Report

AND WHAT ABOUT TIBET AND NORTH KOREA AND TAIWAN?

Praise is indeed due Lara Logan and the bravery of her reporting. With respect to the delusion of failure, realize that your compassion is success itself, and others, whose training it is to take things to the next level, will do so, having the benefit of the knowledge you did bring with you out of Egypt.

One thing we should all keep in mind is the synchronicity of these uprisings across Arabia to the recent visit to the USA from China at a time China is unveiling it's beefed-up, aircraft carrier sporting navy and it's brand new stealth bomber. As well we should keep in mind that, as all eyes are now focused on Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, and Tunisia, no eyes appear to be focused on Tibet, North Korea, and Taiwan.

What then is happening currently in Tibet, North Korea, and Taiwan? Are the Chinese taking advantage of the world's shift of attention to the middle east by persecuting Tibet, strengthening North Korea, and undermining Taiwan? Are there new Chinese inroads into Cambodia and Vietnam?

batwell  02/09/2011 03:44 PM Report

Lara said "It’s very hard for me to be away from this story. I feel in one

sense like a failure professionally. I feel like I failed because I didn’t

deliver, and I take that responsibility very seriously. We’re still

working on the story, but fundamentally it’s in my blood to be there and to

be on the street and listening to people and to do the best reporting that

I can." This is the kind of dedication the world needs to embrace. She risks her life, she provides a candid, articulate summary of her experiences, and yet does not yet meet her own expectations? I wish to say, she exceeds mine and does quite the opposite of failing, she is excelling. Thank you for this exceptional interview. Do have her back.

Babajan  02/09/2011 02:40 PM Report

extremist muslim brotherhood????

Jinan  02/09/2011 12:27 AM Report

SO good to see Lara Logan once again on your show, Charlie! She’s direct, undaunted, very perceptive, and exceptionally sharp. Most importantly, she’s passionate about uncovering the truth and about her profession.

As I was listening to her, angry words of an Egyptian journalist I heard this morning (on Al-Jazeera’s Arabic on-line streaming) echoed even more dramatically in my ears, than when I originally heard them. He was one of the few hundred State media demonstrators on Tuesday in front of Maspero (State TV/Radio Bldg. In Cairo) shouting “Falsehood”. On an interview, he was saying that they (the mediaqa reporters) want the simple satisfaction of being able to do their job as professionals, in the real sense. He said they could no longer watch the false presentation of what’s really going on in Egypt—the version of the news THEY are presenting. (Thank God for satellites!) In other words, they are denied the satisfaction of simply “doing their job” as honest reporters, then go to sleep with a clean conscience. (So I guess it’s either being compelled to compromise integrity or being without a job.) Isn’t ‘being able to report ’the alphabet of a reporter’s freedoms?

In contrast, I hear lovely Lara Logan: unstoppable, fuelled by a burning passion for what she does, uncovering the truth in distant corners of the world, and I feel even deeper the frustration of this Egyptian reporter (and thousands others) who is “unauthorized” to report demonstrations he is looking at across the street!!! BTY, I am grateful to the CS Show for posting the 2009 one-hour long interview you did with Mubarak on facebook yesterday. In the parts of the interview relevant to what’s going on now, there wasn’t even an ounce of truth in the rosy picture he wanted you to see (and failed, because telling from your face you were not buying it of course). So it was comically ironic to hear him lie and boast on my laptop screen yesterday, while watching the unmasking of those lies on my TV screen!

robdverity  02/08/2011 05:01 PM Report

On Af-Pak she said the military and political objectives were totally out of sync. Damning to Obama, Petraeus et al. Proof that whether after 10 or 20 yrs we will leave more chaos (read enmity and enemies) than we found.

robdverity  02/08/2011 04:54 PM Report

Refreshingly candid and perceptive. Mistakenly maligned her in past as being just another journalistic adrenaline junkie. No longer. Her analytics on both Egypt and Afghanistan (especially) were totally worthy and forthright. CR should have kept her on longer. Too incisive for him no doubt. She scare him?

More than a pretty face!

SMacMac  02/08/2011 03:36 PM Report

While I may disagree with some things that Ms. Logan said, her refreshingly candid report about Egypt has a place here. She said some things here that likely wouldn't find their way into a report over at (CBS) 60 Minutes. The experiences that she has had in Cairo and other places in the world, provide her with some valid credibility at Charlie's table. Mr. Rose... you have my permission to invite her back.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/08/2011 02:11 PM Report

This is interesting:

"Our problem, fundamentally, Charlie, was that we didn’t have the proper paperwork to be in Egypt as journalists."

Why not? So then technically you were spies?

Also:

"And we were heavily, heavily intimidated and bullied repeatedly, followed, accused of being agents for -- and spies for Israel. And it was -- we didn’t even have our cameras with us at that point and just for speaking to some of the protests -- I was approached by three or four different men, my teammates were approached -- and that was very striking, Charlie, because you got a glimpse of what life could be like for those protestors if they failed to turn out in great numbers in Tahrir Square in Cairo."

Who are these teammates you mention? I have seen celebrity journalists with bodyguards and let me tell you those bodyguards can be very intimidating. You might not have had cameras but I am sure you stuck out in that crowd and may have even been perceived as intimidating and bullying. I saw the Anderson Cooper footage (between the edits) and he looked like he had a Secret Service platoon with him.

REMant  02/08/2011 01:35 PM Report

Ms Logan and several other journalists seem to have never heard of Ben Franklin's reported mot when signing the Declaration of Independence: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." When, as in a revolution, the contest is for public opinion, news people are obviously going to be viewed as participants, no matter what Hillary thinks, and probably, given some of the stuff I heard from them early on, rightly so. The balance seems to have shifted somewhat now. Peres' statement may have had an effect. But I would not think the govt there speaks entirely with one voice either. The BBC yesterday reported it ran into the same problem from those it described as vigilantes on a trip to the pyramids for a story about the decline in tourism. The police had to call in the army to extricate them. Apparently the state media had been telling people to treat the foreign press as spies. Whoever does obtain power in Egypt will have to be able to bring along the Army, police and the paramilitary to accomplish any peaceful reform. He may have been known as Tricky Dick, but it was Nixon, not Kennedy or LBJ, who went to China. BTW, the Karzai govt has been touting their Taliban "reintegration" program (we called Chieu Hoi in Vietnam) and the hand over of provinces to the Afghan army, while the NATO forces say they expect to see a weakened offensive when Taliban operations resume in the spring. tho as she says, none of that addresses the corruption, or the ethnic problems.