Courtney Martin says the case on sexual assaults in the military highlights how most assaults happen in the real world. On Tuesday of last week, two stories broke. One you've undoubtedly heard about: Lara Logan, a chief foreign correspondent for CBS, was sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for 60 Minutes in Tahrir Square. Glenn Beck pretended as if the news were proof of his various Egyptian conspiracy theories, journalist Nir Rosen seized the moment to write offensive (and clearly jealous) tweets about Logan, eventually leading to his resignation as a New York University fellow, and conservative pundit Debbie Schlussel saw an opportunity in Logan's misfortune to spew Islamaphobia. A veteran female journalist even sent around photographs of what she used to wear when she reported in Islamic countries to a listserv that I'm on, suggesting not so subtly that Logan asked for it because she's pretty and didn't cover that up adequately. KEEP READING . . .
