Juan Cole’s Informed Comment may offer comments that are informed, but they aren’t necessarily well thought out. Cole, of course, criticizes CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr for her sympathetic Twitter praise of Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. So help me understand this. Nuri al-Maliki, still the Iraqi prime minister for the moment, expressed his appreciation for the […]
Quotes of the Day
Glenn Greenwald: CNN yesterday ended the 20-year career of Octavia Nasr, its Atlanta-based Senior Middle East News Editor, because of a now-deleted tweet she wrote on Sunday upon learning of the death of one of the Shiite world’s most beloved religious figures. Glenn Greenwald: And Nasr herself wrote a moving explanation after the controversy over her tweet […]
Quotes of the Day II
Octavia Nasr, CNN chief Middle East correspondent for twenty years tweeted, Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot. Yesterday, she was fired. Josh Marshall at TPM did a little sleuthing and questions the extent of Fadlallah’s Hezbollah connection – and thus the degree […]