The Worst Thing I've Heard All Year - I Quit Counting

Out of respect for the victim, the article was kept mercifully short.  In a rare exception, I am going to reprint it in its entirety.

On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.

There will be no further comment from CBS News and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.

This is a grim reminder, one of many in the news recently, that journalists face real danger when they travel abroad.  It's nice to see CBS huddle protectively around  Logan and take the high road.  My prayers are with her, and I hope she recovers as much as one can from something so terrible.