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CBS correspondent Lara Logan reacted angrily over the weekend to comments by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that the news media are not reporting on progress on the rebuilding of Iraq and are focusing on violence there instead. Interviewed in Baghdad for the CNN program Reliable Sources, Logan said, “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.” She said that it is generally difficult to report on reconstruction because reporters are hamstrung by the increasingly difficult security situation preventing them from moving about the country. Indeed, Logan indicated that reporters like herself have exercised restraint in reporting negative stories about the conduct of U.S. military personnel. “If you had any idea of the number of Iraqis that come to us with stories of abuses of U.S. soldiers and you look at my coverage over the last few weeks, or even over the last three years, there’s been maybe two or three stories that have related to that.” Besides, she said, she has been under increasing pressure from CBS editors to show more positive stories, but when she asks the U.S. embassy in Baghdad to allow her to film them, she has been turned down in almost every instance because “security dominates every single thing that happens in this country.”