Thursday, July 8, 2010

CNN drops senior editor for praising Hezbollah leader


New York Times

CNN on Wednesday removed its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs, Octavia Nasr, from her job after she published a Twitter message saying that she respected the Shiite cleric the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday.

Ms. Nasr left her CNN office in Atlanta on Wednesday. Parisa Khosravi, the senior vice president for CNN International Newsgathering, said in an internal memorandum that she “had a conversation” with Ms. Nasr on Wednesday morning and that “we have decided that she will be leaving the company."

Ms. Nasr, a 20-year veteran of CNN, wrote on Twitter after the cleric died on Sunday, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah … One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.”

4 comments:

  1. She probably thought that this was acceptable. CNN might say that they are not pro Arab or anti Israel. There Arab employees like Ms. Nasr seem to think otherwise.

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  2. I wonder if this story will appear on CNN.

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  3. Usually skepticalJuly 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM

    Wow. Wouldn't have believed it had I heard it.

    There's also a pretty frightening diyyuq to be made: It says they fired her for "error in judgment". What was that "error" exactly? Failing appropriately to mask her sympathies?

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  4. This is not a reason to rejoice.

    This is the second high profile person in recent weeks to openly declare her anti-semitism to the point where a news organization could no longer afford to keep her.

    Just the fact that high profile people now feel comfortable coming out and saying these things affects the climate of what the populace feels is politically correct to say in public.

    It is terrible news for the Jewish people.

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