Posts Tagged ‘CNN’
April 12th, 2011
Members of CNN’s news team were
arrested by the government’s security forces as they were visiting the house of Nabeel Rajab, head of the
Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
Twenty men in black ski masks are reported to have surrounded the news team and confiscated their recording equipment. Government officials have alleged that the team was detained at a checkpoint for not having the proper identification paers. CNN denies the claim and insists its reporters were subject to intimidation and censorship.
March 18th, 2011
Mohammed Jamjoom, a CNN correspondent, was
expelled from Bahrain on Wednesday after reporting on the
violent crackdown by security forces on the main protest camp in Manama. The authorities gave no reason for the expulsion, and other CNN journalists remain in Bahrain.
October 26th, 2010
Juan Williams, a senior news analyst at National Public Radio (NPR), has had his
contract terminated following comments he made on Fox News. Last Monday (October 18), Williams told Bill O’Reilly that aeroplane passengers “in Muslim garb” made him nervous. He also made remarks about the Pakistani immigrant who attempted to plant a car bomb in Times Square. Whilst
Republicans have accused NPR of censorship, an
NPR statement said Williams’ remarks were “inconsistent with their editorial standards”. In September,
CNN sacked anchor Rick Sanchez after he suggested that everybody who ran the network was Jewish.
July 8th, 2010
CNN
sacked their Middle East editor,
Octavia Nasr on July 7, after she expressed her admiration for the late Lebanese Cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on Twittter. On hearing of Ayatollah Fadlallah’s
death on Sunday, Nasr tweeted that the senior Shiite cleric, who is said to have inspired Hezbollah, was “one of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot”. In a
subsequent blog, she apologised claiming that the message was referring to Fadalallah’s progressive views on women’s rights. CNN officials condemned the post as a simplistic error of judgement and stated that Nasr’s position was no longer tenable because her credibility had been “compromised”.
