CNN Editor Hails Hezbollah Figure

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/07/cnn-editor-hails-hezbollah-figure

The Jerusalem Post (and Jeffrey Goldberg) catch CNN's senior editor of Middle East affairs, Octavia Nasr, tweeting, "sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot."

Ms. Nasr tries to dig herself out: "It was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I'm sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah's life's work. That's not the case at all...It is no secret that Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah hated with a vengeance the United States government and Israel. He regularly praised the terror attacks that killed Israeli citizens. And as recently as 2008, he said the numbers of Jews killed in the Holocaust were wildly inflated."

This is (one of many) reasons people watch Fox News instead of CNN.

Update: She's fired, the New York Times reports.

by Ira Stoll  |  Jul 7, 2010 at 9:50 pm Related Topics:  Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list