Thomas Friedman: Octavia Nasr's Firing From CNN 'Troubling'

Thomas Friedman: Why CNN Shouldn't Have Fired Octavia Nasr Over Hezbollah Comment

I find Nasr's firing troubling. Yes, she made a mistake. Reporters covering a beat should not be issuing condolences for any of the actors they cover. It undermines their credibility. But we also gain a great deal by having an Arabic-speaking, Lebanese-Christian female journalist covering the Middle East for CNN, and if her only sin in 20 years is a 140-character message about a complex figure like Fadlallah, she deserved some slack. She should have been suspended for a month, but not fired. It's wrong on several counts.

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