Its like two guys on a road trip and one of them just happens to be the prime minister. And he and I are talking to each other, like you and I are talking to each other, Greenberg told Simone Wilson of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, who covered the shoot in Israel.
Fox News (who else?) asked if this represented a radical left turn. Gary Stein of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel wondered if this was a good idea or PC run amok. Simone Wilson, a blogger for the L.A. Weekly, celebrated a move that would open the Spider-Man casting call from pasty crackers like
Logan, who has returned to work and is also interviewed on "60 Minutes" this Sunday, has been the subject of much speculation and sickening second-guessing since the news of her attack broke on February 15. Despite the lack of clear-cut information, the LA Weekly blogger Simone Wilson promptly announced that "Warzone 'It Girl'" had been "raped repeatedly" an editorial assumption Wilson took a full month to correct. The
Date: Apr 29, 2011
Category: World
Source: Google
Only Lara Logan herself can set the record straight
One fellow -- a left-leaning correspondent for Rolling Stone, among other places -- had to resign a fellowship at NYU and apologize at exhaustive lengths when his wretched tweets were bandied about. Simone Wilson of LA Weekly's tone-deaf insertion of commentary on Logan's "Hollywood good looks" into her coverage hauled her work into the Internet's Kangaroo court.
In other words, the rapists rape to put women in their place, and then a chorus of voices rises to blame women who get raped for not knowing their place. Sadly, it wasn't just rightwing channels that used this as an opportunity to call for more limits on women's freedoms and opportunity. Simone Wilson of LA Weekly pounced to cast aspersions on Logan's professionalism and to imply she asked for it by taking tough assignments.