Posted on 07/08/2010 6:07:15 AM PDT by HearMe
CNN fires ME editor over tweet
08/07/2010
Octavia Nasr mourns death of Shi'ite leader Fadlallah.
NEW YORK — CNN has fired an editor responsible for Middle Eastern coverage after she posted a note on Twitter expressing admiration for a late Lebanese cleric considered an inspiration for Hizbullah.
Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet, but CNN's senior vice president for international news gathering, Parisa Khosravi, said Wednesday that Nasr's credibility had been compromised.
The Atlanta-based Nasr worked at CNN for 20 years, starting as an assignment editor on the international desk. Her job was mostly off the air, but she occasionally would appear as an onscreen analyst during discussions of Middle Eastern news.
Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah died Sunday after a long illness. He was staunchly anti-American and linked to bombings that killed more than 260 Americans, a charge he denied.
In a Twitter posting over the weekend, Nasr said she was sad to hear of Fadlallah's death. She called him "one of Hizbullah's giants I respect a lot."
CNN issued a statement on Tuesday calling it an error in judgment for Nasr to write such a simplistic tweet.
Nasr later said in a blog that she had been referring to Fadlallah's attitude toward women's rights. The cleric had issued edicts banning so-called "honor killing" of women and giving women the right to hit their husbands if attacked first.
She wrote that Fadlallah was "revered across borders yet designated a terrorist. Not the kind of life to be commenting about in a brief tweet. It's something I deeply regret."
But Khosravi said in a memo Wednesday that she spoke with Nasr and "we have decided that she will be leaving the company."
CNN is one hell of a news organization, it only took them 20 year to discover that this influential employee is a terrorist sympathizer. Twenty more years and they may catch on to Christiane Amanpour too.
About her and CNN's 20 year stories with an anti Israel bias? Never mind, I guess.
And if CNN wasn't aware of her "take" on the subject of terrorists, they're too incompetent to be running a news organization.
Sorry - this looks like CNN is concerned about being "caught" not about the pro-terrorists positions of their staff.
CNN seems to be taking a turn to the ‘Right.’ I think we are witnessing a shift because they will be out of business soon if they don’t start competing with Fox for a conservative audience.
I will give CNN credit for firing this POS.
MSNBC would have given her a promotion.
From the Department of Redundancy Department
Perhaps her and Helen Thomas can now spend some time together.
News from the enemy.
Sounds like she fits right in at CNN.
I wonder why they really fired her.
Spot on! Absolutely hilarious... once again, what passes for “journalism” feigns shock and disappointment at the “discovery” that one of their own is a terrorist-loving, blame America first scumbags... it still cracks me up that the overwhelming majority of the remaining scum laugh uncontrollably at the suggestion that they are all biased and propogandists for the Left.
I would like to submit Exhibit# 1,985,035 as further evidence to prove the case...
The Atlanta-based Nasr worked at CNN for 20 years
I'm sure she was fine and impartial and upstanding and unbiased and professional for all that 20 years, and then one little bitty slip and you fired her?
Sheesh. Such high standards you have, CNN.
Just like Obama who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 long years was suppose to have no impact whatsoever on Obama, so too CNN had no earthly idea of Nasr's views for 20 long years until her Tweet days ago.
Yeah, sure. I buy all that.
/s
MSNBC will probably hire her.
‘Twenty more years and they may catch on to Christiane Amanpour too.’
I believe she is moving to ABC to host ‘This Week’ on Sundays.
‘Twenty more years and they may catch on to Christiane Amanpour too.’
I believe she is moving to ABC to host ‘This Week’ on Sundays.
She disgusts me.
Whatever happened to Amanpour going to ABC to do thier Sunday morning show?
*That's really just a rhetorical question.*
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