(Congress Report) – Many folks around the nation have no idea that earlier this year, award-winning journalist Lara Logan delivered epic testimony concerning the topic of censorship. Her testimony was given while speaking at a roundtable discussion held in D.C. during February 2024, which was hosted by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and titled, “Federal Health Agencies and the Covid Cartel: What Are They Hiding?”
Logan kicked things off by showcasing her experience as a journalist, letting everyone know that she isn’t some small potatoes backwoods kind of reporter. She knows more than just a thing or two.
“I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News,” she stated. “That was my home for 16 years. And as a journalist, I have sat down with world leaders, mass murderers, and terrorists.”
“And I have held people on both sides of the aisle accountable. I have seen suffering and I have faced evil and I have walked through the fires of hell on distant battlefields. I faced my own death at the hands of a mob of some 200 men in Egypt when I was gang-raped and sodomized and beaten almost to death while on assignment for 60 minutes,” Logan continued.
Watch Lara Logan's segment just this morning in Washington, D.C., at Senator Ron Johnson's roundtable discussion 'Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding? pic.twitter.com/v4kzoiG4QP
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) February 26, 2024
Logan then switched gears to tackle the subject at hand, censorship in the media, and began to go into great detail about how she personally experienced censorship and personal assaults on her character, simply for stating facts and sharing the truth with her audience. Once upon a time, this was called journalistic integrity.
“For almost a decade, I have been targeted and falsely branded and accused of many things that I did not do,” she recounted. “They have attacked my work, my character, my sanity, and my marriage. And I am not alone. We are many. And we will not give up, and we will not give in. It’s important to all of us, because of everything discussed today, that we address the vital principles and values that exist really only in the United States of America.”
“Logan then began to detail how corporate propaganda media ‘so-called journalists’ are the very ones who’ve been leading the campaign for censorship of dissenting voices. As an example, she cited the censorship of conservative commentator Tucker Carlson,” BizPac Review reported.
“Not very long ago, we allowed one of our own to be branded as a traitor simply for doing his job,” she went on to say. “In fact, there were many so-called journalists who were leading the charge against Tucker, accusing him of treason for the simple fact of interviewing the president of Russia.”
Logan then pounced on legacy media institutions for lacking anything even remotely resembling a spine and refusing to speak up on behalf of Carlson and freedom of the press in general. She pointed out this wasn’t just a politically motivated assault on one person. It was a complete and total rejection, a betrayal as she put it in her testimony of “the most sacred principles of a free press.” Logan disclosed that her colleagues in the media know this is true, despite saying the contrary. So, if these so-called journalists know what’s going on why aren’t they standing up and boldly proclaiming the truth?
“My fear is that they either no longer care or that they lack the moral courage to be honest, including with themselves to those who wish to censor the idea of free speech in America and all over the world,” Logan asserted, sharing her own belief concerning what is happening within the media.
“Media companies, institutions, and journalism schools have failed all of us. And for too long we have allowed non-profit organizations to masquerade as non-partisan media watchdogs, when in fact they are little more than highly paid political propagandists and assassins whose entire reason for being is to crush anyone who stands in their way and along with them the long-held and cherished ideas of free speech, free-thinking, and free minds,” she commented during the roundtable discussion. “This is a blood sport for them, their political allies, and their puppet masters. They know how to kill a journalist without murdering them. We call it cancel culture. In truth, it is a death sentence. And they get away with it because they have information dominance. Some are strong enough to survive, but only a few like Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, Matt Taibbi, only a few like them are able to reach greater heights and thrive.”
She then started going into more detail, making allegations that these fraudulent non-profits were all part of a “vast censorship network that includes government agencies.”
“They use deception to mask their actions with lofty goals like preventing the spread of misinformation, disinformation, hate speech,” she remarked. “They use phrases like ‘protecting democracy’ and make no mistake, words matter. While propaganda and censorship are not new, technology means unprecedented power and reach in the hands of a few.”
“Companies like Facebook, Instagram, and Google, as you have heard many times today, have been allowed to amass monopoly power. And as a result, they not only reach billions of people across the world every second of the day, they have absolute control over what we see and what we hear,” the award-winning journalist added.
Next, Logan discussed her time and experience working as a journalist in South Africa, a period in her career that started 35 years ago. She talked about being under emergency restrictions, herself just 17-years-old at the time. State censors weaponized the ideas of public safety and security as justification for stifling freedom of speech and the open sharing of information. However, she noted, their weapon was the truth. For Logan and others in that area of the world there were no protections for rights of freedom of speech.
“And journalists would have to hide their footage from the security police, sometimes sewing the tapes into their mattresses at home so they could not be seized and used to identify and target the protesters that we had filmed. The light of freedom that set fire to our hearts in South Africa was lit thousands of miles away. It was lit right here where we sit today in the United States of America,” she declared.
Logan shifted to discussing the Founding Fathers as she closed out her testimony, saying, “When the Founding Fathers put freedom of speech first, it was not by chance, it was by design. The rights that followed were in part created to protect the First Amendment. Without it, they knew that freedom itself would perish.”
“I am reminded today of the words spoken by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Gray, in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War. He said, ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. We are once again watching the lights of freedom. They’re going out here and all over the world. And it is up to us to determine if they will be lit again ever,'” Logan finished.
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