NEW YORK – A journalist resigned from his New York University fellowship Wednesday, one day after he posted derogatory comments on Twitter about CBS reporter Lara Logan as the news of her assault in Egypt was breaking.
"Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger," Nir Rosen wrote on Twitter. He later added, "Look, she was probably groped like thousands of other women."
"Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger," Nir Rosen wrote on Twitter. He later added, "Look, she was probably groped like thousands of other women."
This is one of the most worthless threads I've ever read on this site.
I couldn't agree more...
all anybody needed to say on this thread was that ANYBODY capable of doing what is being reported is fucking evil and should be dealt with severely , their background is irrelevant to the matter and does nothing but provide a stupider segment of society another reason to get on their soap boxes and prove how stupid they are. Scum is scum, regardless of race, creed, religion. If you can't separate the few from the whole then you aren't smart enough to be involved in this discussion to begin with. The only thing this thread should've been about is a woman who suffered unnecessarily.
I couldn't agree more...
all anybody needed to say on this thread was that ANYBODY capable of doing what is being reported is fucking evil and should be dealt with severely , their background is irrelevant to the matter and does nothing but provide a stupider segment of society another reason to get on their soap boxes and prove how stupid they are. Scum is scum, regardless of race, creed, religion. If you can't separate the few from the whole then you aren't smart enough to be involved in this discussion to begin with. The only thing this thread should've been about is a woman who suffered unnecessarily.
Lara Logan out of hospital, in 'remarkably good spirits'
CBS News correspondent resting at home with husband, children
The CBS News correspondent was discharged from an undisclosed hospital Tuesday at about 5 p.m. and is now recuperating at her Washington, D.C.-area home after suffering "a brutal and sustained sexual assault" at the hands of a mob last Friday while covering the revolution in Egypt.
ABC News was the first to report her release, while the Daily Beast quoted sources as saying the 39-year-old reporter is in "remarkably good spirits" despite her nightmare and is now resting at her residence, with husband Joseph Burkett and their two children.
Logan was working on a story for "60 Minutes" on the celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square following the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak when, per a statement from CBS News, she was set upon by a "mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy."
After becoming separated from her crew and security team, the network said Logan was surrounded, assaulted and beaten before a group of women. She was ultimately rescued by Egyptian soldiers, who escorted her and her crew back to their hotel. Logan was put on the first flight out the next morning for the States where she checked into the hospital.
A person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that the ordeal, which lasted roughly 20- to 30-minutes, "was not a rape."
A CBS News spokesman declined to comment.
After news of the incident broke, journalism organizations such as the National Press Club and many of her colleagues issued statements of support to the South African native, who gained fame for her hard-nosed coverage of the War in Iraq and other Middle East hotspots.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who was punched by pro-Mubarak supporters a few days before and left Egypt out of concern for his own safety, offered his thoughts and prayers on Twitter, saying he was "sickened and saddened by the attack on Lara Logan."
While film critic Roger Ebert tweeted: "The attack on Lara Logan brings Middle East attitudes toward women into sad focus."
Logan had been in Egypt the week before covering the massive protests there when she and her crew were taken into police custody, accused of being spies, and held in stress positions for several days as part of a government-sponsored campaign of intimidation against foreign journalists covering the tumultuous events.
She and her team were released and left Egypt. They had just returned so Logan could interview key members of the protest movement when the street attack occurred.
CBS News correspondent resting at home with husband, children
The CBS News correspondent was discharged from an undisclosed hospital Tuesday at about 5 p.m. and is now recuperating at her Washington, D.C.-area home after suffering "a brutal and sustained sexual assault" at the hands of a mob last Friday while covering the revolution in Egypt.
ABC News was the first to report her release, while the Daily Beast quoted sources as saying the 39-year-old reporter is in "remarkably good spirits" despite her nightmare and is now resting at her residence, with husband Joseph Burkett and their two children.
Logan was working on a story for "60 Minutes" on the celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square following the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak when, per a statement from CBS News, she was set upon by a "mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy."
After becoming separated from her crew and security team, the network said Logan was surrounded, assaulted and beaten before a group of women. She was ultimately rescued by Egyptian soldiers, who escorted her and her crew back to their hotel. Logan was put on the first flight out the next morning for the States where she checked into the hospital.
A person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that the ordeal, which lasted roughly 20- to 30-minutes, "was not a rape."
A CBS News spokesman declined to comment.
After news of the incident broke, journalism organizations such as the National Press Club and many of her colleagues issued statements of support to the South African native, who gained fame for her hard-nosed coverage of the War in Iraq and other Middle East hotspots.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who was punched by pro-Mubarak supporters a few days before and left Egypt out of concern for his own safety, offered his thoughts and prayers on Twitter, saying he was "sickened and saddened by the attack on Lara Logan."
While film critic Roger Ebert tweeted: "The attack on Lara Logan brings Middle East attitudes toward women into sad focus."
Logan had been in Egypt the week before covering the massive protests there when she and her crew were taken into police custody, accused of being spies, and held in stress positions for several days as part of a government-sponsored campaign of intimidation against foreign journalists covering the tumultuous events.
She and her team were released and left Egypt. They had just returned so Logan could interview key members of the protest movement when the street attack occurred.
go to a football game any given weekend you'll see a fight break out, the event is still largely peaceful even if a few morons act differently. You're talking about the complete upheaval of a regime, there will of course be incidents but from what could have gone on...these people overthrew a government and it didn't take a war, it didn't take hundreds of thousands of lives...by and large....yes peaceful.
