Michael Tomasky: The CNN firing of Nasr and some global perspective

Another matter last week that struck me was CNN's firing of its correspondent Octavia Nasr because she tweeted a sympathetic remark about the Lebanese Shia cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on the occasion of his death. She called him a giant and wrote that she respected him. Since Fadlallah had been a Hezbollah supporter, and perhaps an instrumental one, this was a bridge too far for CNN, which caved in to (I presume) the usual fear-mongering and gave her the instant heave-ho.

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