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 didnât think twice about sending her to cover the biggest stories in the world. 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 Cairoâs 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.
Recently, she downplayed the seriousness of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol on one of those shows. âThis is now the crime of the century?â she asked sarcastically. She has echoed pro-Kremlin attacks on the United States, accusing Americans of âarming the Nazis of Ukraine.â And she has compared Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Hillary Clinton to some of Hitlerâs most notorious henchmen.
Her latest project is a forthcoming documentary on voting machines called âSelection Codeâ that is being financed by Mike Lindell, the chief executive of My Pillow, who has helped spread some of the most outrageous myths about the 2020 presidential election.
