Ex-Star 60 Minutes Lara Logan Defends New York Magazine Defamation With $ 25 Million - Former 60-minute correspondent Lara Logan is asking the New York media and writer Joe Hagen for a five-year article that, he says, is ruining his career. She claims $ 25 million in damages.

The defamation lawsuit filed Thursday indicates that Logan believes his CBS News career was influenced by a 2014 New York magazine article "Benghazi and the Bombshell" when it was first learned that their sources lied to the archive in their interview.

According to the New York Post, he said that the launch of "success" seven months after his story was "completely derailed" had withdrawn from his plan to continue working "60 minutes" after the launch. Hagen piece.

Logan's lawsuit suggests that she wasn't the only person who told the source. The headline is said to use the word "bomb" as a sexist, according to the Post, "to portray Logan as a dangerous, untouchable, arson reporter."

Ex-Star 60 Minutes Lara Logan Defends New York Magazine

A New York Magazine spokesman told TheWrap, "The New York Magazine article has been thoroughly reviewed and verified objectively, and we keep our reports."

The development of CBS Morning News: From Walter Cronkite to Diane Sawyer and Bryant Gumbel (Photos)

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    Walter Cronkite - "The Morning Show", 1954-1956

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    Mike Wallace - "The CBS Morning News," 1963-1964

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    Joseph Benti - "The CBS Morning News," 1964-1970

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    Bob Schieffer & Diane Sawyer - "Tomorrow", 1981-1982

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    Harry Smith, Kathleen Sullivan, and Mark McEwen - "CBS This Morning", 1987-1999

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    Bryant Gumbel, Jane Clayson, Mark McEwen and Julie Chen - "The Early Show", 1999-2002

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    Harry Smith, Hannah Storm, Julie Chen, Rene Syler, and Dave Price - "The Early Show", 2002-2006

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    Harry Smith, Hannah Storm, Julie Chen, Russ Mitchell and Dave Price - "The Early Show", 2006-2007

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    Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez, Julie Chen, Russ Mitchell and Dave Price - "The Early Show", 2008-2010

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    Chris Wragge, Erica Hill, Julie Chen, Jeff Glor and Marysol Castro - "The Early Show", January 2011 - September 2011

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    Charlie Rose, Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King - "CBS This Morning", 2012-present

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The network's AM news program has gone through a seemingly endless series of show titles and talents.


Behind the scenes secrets of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer of 1964

You know Buddy the Elf and Frosty the Snowman. But first came Rudolph, the most famous reindeer of all.

The red-haired misfit originally appeared in a 1939 illustrated book by Robert L. May for retailer Montgomery Ward. This inspired May's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, to write the Christmas carols of 1949, which later became the basis for the 1964 stop-motion special.

In an interview on the December 5, 1964 issue of TV Guide Magazine, before Rudolph's release, Arthur Rankin, the creator of the technique known as "Animagic," took us behind the scenes of what would become 'The oldest holiday special in television history.

The one-hour musical employed a team of 100 people for a full year. According to Rankin, who died in 2014, it was quite difficult to keep his "cast of thousands" online: "If an elf's mouth were out of place, we would have to re-film the entire scene," he said. "That meant a whole week of work for a sagging mouth."

Even then, he knew the magic of partying was worth it: "When a movie takes a year to produce and costs half a million dollars, you can be sure that it won't see [equals] all of television. the days. "