News network CNN has fired one its editors after she allegedly posted on Twitter a message expressing admiration for a Lebanese cleric, who some say inspires the Hezbollah movement.
Octavia Nasr apparently wrote on Twitter that she was saddened to hear of Mohammed Fadlallah’s death, saying that he was “one of the Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot”.
The AFP has reported that an internal email was sent around CNN with the company saying that “we have decided she will be leaving the company”.
Nasr later wrote in a blog post that she had been referring to Fadlallah’s work in women’s rights, citing his work in banning honour killings.
“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,” Nasr wrote. “That’s not the
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
