Monday 11 May 2015

A critical journalist went a little too far.

Nir Rosen, a journalist who covered the Iraq War, was a fellow at NYU Center on Law and Security when he decided to send out a tweet that didn't bode well with the rest of the internet.
He tweeted: "Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson. Where was her buddy McCrystal."
Logan's the CBS correspondent who was reported to have been sexually assaulted while covering Hosni Mubarak's resignation in Egypt. Rosen's tweet was referring to CNN's Anderson Cooper, who, at the time, reportedly had been hit in the head multiple times while covering the same event in Egypt.
Rosen didn't stop there. He went on to call her a "war monger," and that "she was probably groped like thousands of other women."
But shortly after the Twitter rant, Rosen repeatedly apologized, and the next day, ended up resigning from his fellowship position.

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