Discussion: Longtime CNN Reporter Leaves Network After Charlie Hebdo Twitter Spat

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Jim Clancy------- Part of the CNN International before it began trying to emulate Fox.

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Dude made it 34 years and bailed over a twitter spat. (twitter spat is funny all on it’s own btw)
It makes me think that these guys/gals were getting by with a lot pre social media.

I don’t know this guy, don’t watch CNN and don’t tweet, so I’m strictly outside looking in and from my perspective, this is very silly.

Jim Clancy has gone out in silence, I know that much.

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Think we can get a consensus these days?

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More likely he was pushed.

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Yeh

CNN’s trying to emulate Fox so no one of journalistic integrity is acceptable these days…

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I haven’t watched CNN International since a couple of Europe trips in the mid-'90s (pre-Fox News), and even then there was a remarkable difference in quality between CNN Int’l and USA CNN. It would be disappointing if the Int’l version has followed domestic CNN into the dumpster. A few times a week I watch (via Roku) SkyNews from the UK which, despite still being ~30% owned by Newscorp, is nothing like Fox News: more of a straight news reporting organization, and had some pretty good coverage from Paris last week.

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Jim Clancy: first high-profile victim of pro-Charlie Hebdo groupthink. And the Israel Lobby.

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His take on the cartoons is the same as mine but that relatively false claim that the Prophet is portrayed in an unflattering manner is not what the jihadists are complaining about: they claim that everybody has to follow their religious practices according to which it is blasphemous to portray the Prophet at all. (According to a reformed jihadist who reads Arabic that particular constraint is not in the Koran.) It may be that the jihadists are so angry about the cartoons because they portray the jihadists as ridiculous.

Now what I have no clue about is why Clancy thinks his twitter critic is Hasbara?

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Apparently it is okay for reporters to retweet unsourced and often false information but it is not okay to express an opinion…which I thought was the primary reason reason reporters are asked by their masters to use Twitter. So the rules are that it is okay to express an opinion on Sunday morning talk shows and retweet lies on Twitter (as long as the Tweet is preceded by “Retweets are not endorsements”. Jim is a first-rate reporter no longer working at a second-rate news outlet.

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Probably a good thing for Jim. CNN ain’t the CNN of1991 any more.

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Several more characters going on here than tweets allow, I’m sure…possibly something to do with Clancy living in France for so long and having different ideas about free speech than CNN’s corporate owners? Maybe?

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If I put a crucifix on the wall, am I mocking Jesus? If I say “Jesus was a good man, but not truly a prophet,” (and so agree with Jefferson) am I mocking Jesus? The crucifix shows Jesus being violently executed.

It is only the behavior of certain Muslims which mocks Mohammed. They pretend to make themselves in his image, and instead discredit the religion. The only way they can cease mocking the Prophet is to cease pretending to be his followers.

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I don’t mind any kind of Twitter spat even if it involves the prophet. I have a problem with the rabidly virulent animals who want jihad.

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Now what I have no clue about is why Clancy thinks his twitter critic is Hasbara?

Especially since one of the accounts he fingered as Hasbara is an anti-Semitic twitter account dedicated to exposing the Jewish media conspiracy, something easily checked by looking at their profile or any of their tweets.

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How FOX like of him…I guess we will soon see him there. IN Islam, the mere imaging of the Prophet is insulting him. Making an image…any…even the most respectful to a Western eye is an insult and blasphemy to a Muslim. The short take: when you have the AK-47’s its your, not a media guy’s, definition of insult that counts.

What a silly person.

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That’s the Humpty Dumpty conspiracy I believe.

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Yep

I know what you mean… I stopped watching CNN when they started using the ‘swoosh’ sound efect segue-ing to their next topic.

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Arguing on twitter is a lot like swimming with a ziploc bag of fish blood off the coast of South Florida