Tuesday, February 15, 2011

How Lara Logan Use Internet in Egypt

The Egyptian government has closed Internet access since last week following a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Providers of telecommunication services or services providers are required to cover telecommunications services

This situation is certainly very distressing Internet users Especially journalists. Lara Logan is no exception. Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She is currently the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, Also is a correspondent for 60 Minutes and appears in segments for the CBS Evening News.

Lara Logan's reports from Afghanistan, Iraq and other global hot spots earned her a job reporting for CBS News in 2002. Only 31 at the time, Logan Had already spent more than a dozen years in the news business, beginning with jobs writing for The Daily News and The Sunday Tribune of Durban, South Africa while Attending the University of Natal. After Graduating in 1992 she worked in a wide variety of journalism jobs: as a producer for Reuters Television, a freelance correspondent for CNN, and as a correspondent for the British morning news program GMTV, Nowhere she began to be known for her international reporting. Upon joining CBS in 2002 she Became a correspondent for the network's radio news and the magazine program 60 Minutes II as well as for The CBS Evening News. Logan's good looks are part of her story: she modeled swimsuits for local advertisements while in college, was a favorite of British tabloids while with GMTV, and was Called a 'War Zone' It Girl '"in a 2005 New York Times profile. CBS named her its chief foreign affairs correspondent in 2008.

Egyptian government's efforts to block the internet in the country to paralyze the lines of communication opposition groups, led to the efforts of the international activist group to restore the internet connection in the country.

Internet activist group Anonymous hacker group Telecomix and reportedly tried to rebuild the infrastructure of the Internet of emergency in Egypt by building their own Internet access point and utilize the telephone cable channels overseas. Maybe Lara Logan joined using this Internet access along with other journalists