By Eli Clifton
"WASHINGTON, Jul 8, 2010 (IPS) - CNN's firing of Octavia Nasr, the editor responsible for the network's Middle East coverage, over a Twitter post in which she expressed her sadness over the death of a Lebanese cleric has set off a firestorm of debate about what the decision says about CNN's fairness in reporting on the region....
Peter Hart, activism director at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a media watchdog group, told IPS that, "If there was some suggestion that she had been producing questionable journalism over all these years you'd think this would have been an issue before this, but it doesn't seem to be the case. So it's a decision which is disconnected from any sensible policy. The real problem is that she said something which offended very powerful people and that was her mistake.".....
"[P]lenty of American journalists and politicians have shown 'respect' (and in some cases, fawning admiration) for various world figures with hands far bloodier than Ayatollah Fadlallah - including Mao Zedong, Ariel Sharon, the Shah of Iran, or even Kim il Sung - but it didn't cost them their jobs," wrote Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University......."
"WASHINGTON, Jul 8, 2010 (IPS) - CNN's firing of Octavia Nasr, the editor responsible for the network's Middle East coverage, over a Twitter post in which she expressed her sadness over the death of a Lebanese cleric has set off a firestorm of debate about what the decision says about CNN's fairness in reporting on the region....
Peter Hart, activism director at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a media watchdog group, told IPS that, "If there was some suggestion that she had been producing questionable journalism over all these years you'd think this would have been an issue before this, but it doesn't seem to be the case. So it's a decision which is disconnected from any sensible policy. The real problem is that she said something which offended very powerful people and that was her mistake.".....
"[P]lenty of American journalists and politicians have shown 'respect' (and in some cases, fawning admiration) for various world figures with hands far bloodier than Ayatollah Fadlallah - including Mao Zedong, Ariel Sharon, the Shah of Iran, or even Kim il Sung - but it didn't cost them their jobs," wrote Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University......."
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