“who says things aren’t falling apart?”

Forgive me for getting to this so late, but it is so good, it really doesn’t get old. I was in transit to start the week, and missed CBS News correspondent Lara Logan on CNN’s Informed Sources showing Howard Kurtz who is really informed when it comes to the miserable situation in Iraq:

KURTZ: But critics would say, well, no wonder people back home think things are falling apart because we get this steady drumbeat of negativity from the correspondents there.

LOGAN: Well, who says things aren't falling apart in Iraq? I mean, what you didn't see on your screens this week was all the unidentified bodies that have been turning up, all the allegations here of militias that are really controlling the security forces.

What about all the American soldiers that died this week that you didn't see on our screens? I mean, we've reported on reconstruction stories over and over again…I mean, I really resent the fact that people say that we're not reflecting the true picture here. That's totally unfair and it's really unfounded.

Logan has much, much more to say, so take a minute to watch the video—it is worth every minute. The way Logan contradicts the establishment meme about the press underreporting the good news (a related post here) is forceful without being nasty, and the way she manages to be simultaneously emotional and collected made me feel a bit like I was watching some Hollywood dramatization rather than live TV. A rewrite would be hard-pressed to improve upon the scene.

Plus, watch Logan’s not-so-micro expression when she hears Kurtz mention Laura Ingram—priceless.

(Big t.o.t.h. to Rachel at Tomatoes’ for making public her girlcrush and directing me to C&L for the video. Sklar has more on going “to press with the war you have” over at HufPo.)