Comments on: Careless tweets – Why 140 characters is too much as CNN sacks reporter

By: Washington Post Columnist suspended for Twitter hoax [Irony] | The Wall Blog

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:49:29 +0000

[...] July CNN parted company with Middle Eastern affairs editor, Octavia Nasr, after she tweeted a controversial message of support for Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed [...]

By: Mirek Polyniak

Mirek Polyniak — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:53:34 +0000

@ Gordon: do you expect to have no personal opinions? there’s nothing like “objective opinion” in the world I’m afraid – we’re subconsciously evaluating things through the prism of our beliefs, education, experience, etc.
Moreover I wouldn’t compare a tweet with an official press release

By: @gordonmacmillan

@gordonmacmillan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:21:31 +0000

@Mirek I don’t think there is anyway around it – she tweeted “One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot”. I wouldn’t want a reporter who is supposed to be giving objective news publicly praising and organisation that engages in terror. She could have blogged a piece about his role in relation to muslim women but she didn’t.

In retrospect she tell us that is what she meant, but I’m not sure i buy that. As she could have tweeted it rather than praising Hezbollah.

By: Mirek Połyniak

Mirek Połyniak — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:44:38 +0000

Actually I perceive CNN’s move as a wrong implementation of “political correctness”. And what makes it more bizarre to me: it’s happening in the country that often boasts itself on freedom of speech.
IMO she just explained her personal perception of the person who – as she explained on the blog – had been quite innovative in some aspects of Muslim world.
One cannot expect profound elaboration in 140 characters hence jumping to conclusions so quickly seems to be hot-tempered to me. Shame on CNN!

By: @gordonmacmillan

@gordonmacmillan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:37:41 +0000

It’s that line with power/fame comes responsibility — particularly so if you are a broadcast journalist and people expect you to be impartial rather than praising radical islamacists.

By: Andrew Girdwood

Andrew Girdwood — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:21:42 +0000

Seems a harsh call to me.

Many companies have problems with employees becoming famous through social media – Forrester, for example – and being able to exert influence in their next pay review. That can’t be the case here, CNN already made the TV star, so it’s tempting to suspect they’re trying to protect relationships with picky ad partners.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:19:47 +0000

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