Lara Stone got her designer pal Christopher Kane to be her date at this year’s Serpentine Gallery Summer Party.
It was reported in March that the 31-year-old model and husband
David Walliams were on “a break” and living separately and they’ve not
been pictured together since.
So far neither of them have commented on any of the rumours either.
Lara Stone (Ian West/PA)
Lara looked stunning as she attended the prestigious event in London
in a fitted red mini-dress from Christopher’s latest collection.
In May Lara was pictured apparently still wearing her wedding ring as walked the red carpet solo at the Cannes Film Festival.
It’s not that surprising that some in the corporate media, driven
either by admiration for ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal or disdain for Rolling Stone‘s scoop, have rushed in to defend or explain away his behavior. In Saturday’s Washington Post (6/26/10),
anonymous military sources tell the newspaper that the comments from
McChrystal and his staff were supposed to be off the record:
The command’s own review of events, said the official, who was
unwilling to speak on the record, found “no evidence to suggest” that
any of the “salacious political quotes” in the article were made in
situations in which ground rules permitted Hastings to use the material
in his story.
The Post‘s Karen DeYoung and Rajiv Chandrasekaran seem to think some of this military complaining is persuasive. They report that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings took “minor liberties with the facts,” based on the Post getting their hands on the factchecking emails between Rolling Stone
and the military. The magazine asked if McChrystal indeed had voted for
Obama–which is something he told Hastings. The military handler
responded, “IMPORTANT–PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THIS–THIS IS PERSONAL AND
PRIVATE INFORMATION AND UNRELATED TO HIS JOB. IT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE
TO SHARE.” Rolling Stone published this fact, in spite of the
all-caps warning that it would be “INAPPROPRIATE TO SHARE.” But how does
reporting a fact someone else doesn’t want reported qualify as taking
“liberties with the facts”?
Lara Logan
One gets the impression that many corporate media figures believe the
real problem here is Michael Hastings. The right-wing Media Research
Center has singled out CBS reporter Lara Logan for approval for her comments on CNN‘s Reliable Sources.
Logan seems to believe the military’s argument that the exchanges were
meant to be off the record (“Something doesn’t add up here”), in part
because she’s apparently not had the same experience with McChrystal and
his staff: “I know these people. They never let their guard down
like that.”
Logan shows most clearly where she’s coming from with this:
I mean, the question is, really, is what General McChrystal and his
aides are doing so egregious, that they deserved to end a career like
McChrystal’s? Michael Hastings has never served his country the way
McChrystal has.
