Lara Logan on Daily Show: Good TV Journalism and the world turned upside down

CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent, Lara Logan, appeared on the Daily show this last week. Not being a devotee of TV news, I wasn't familiar with her so her fancy appearance initially threw me off, but her interview provided some of the best discussion I've heard about the role of journalists and what their bosses allow them to cover in our current wars.

Not only that, but through her last five years of experience, she places the tone of media coverage into context, and fights to cover the important events that TV news veers away from because they're afraid someone will call them unpatriotic and cancel a commercial.

Looking through interviews and clippings, she's been able to cover the troops without always having to toe the Pentagon line, not to mention standing up to right-wing bullies likea Michelle Malkin, who for some reason are taken seriously by the mainstream punditry.

Fierce independence, in-depth reporting, and fighting for important issues; she could be a harbinger of a smarter TV journalism in the tradition of Murrow and Cronkite.