A few years ago, Radar Magazine included CBS Foreign Correspondent and former swimsuit model Lara Logan on their list of "TV's Dumbest Anchors" (not that you could actually find that on their website or anything; look here for a report on the list). At the time, Logan was on 60 Minutes II, and we didn't think much of the show, so maybe we didn't care one way or another.
But in the years since then, Logan's been on Face the Nation and the evening news enough for us to think that the Radar piece must have been the result of someone having an axe to grind against Logan, who's bright and beautiful and young and yeah, weird that anyone at CBS would try and bring someone down like that, huh?
The clincher for us was Logan's appearance on The Daily Show last night, which Gawker found to be awkward and depressing -- and we thought was awesome. She's sweet and gorgeous when she curses and she's so angry about Iraq that she's not afraid to piss off her bosses to say what she wants about it. Are you kidding? We DREAM about women like this!
(No, literally; we do.)
Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.
Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.
Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.
Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.
Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.
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