Longtime terrorism expert (and former CNN investigative correspondent) Steve Emerson has been tortured in the New York Times and other major media outlets after identifying a large city in the UK (Birmingham) as “totally Muslim, where non-Muslims just simply don’t go.” He not only issued an apology to every resident of Birmingham for this misstatement on Fox News, he announced a donation to a children’s hospital in the city. Commentators and journalists make errors, but few ever apologize for them. Indeed, the Times story smearing Emerson as a “self-described” terrorism expert (the piece was co-written by Robert Mackey, who has a distinguished record of anti-Israel bias) had three errors in it that the paper had to correct. (In fact, if its reporters were being honest, the Times would note that the contributions Emerson has made to our knowledge about terrorism since he founded the Investigative Project on Terrorism in 1995 are enormous. Prior to IPT, he won the George Polk award—one of the highest honors in journalism-for a documentary titled Jihad in America: The Grand Deception. Two of his books (one on the bombing of Pan Am 103) won praise in the Times itself). However, he has lambasted the Times on many occasions when the newspaper failed its readers on the topic of terrorism. Thus, its not unreasonable to wonder if some of the papers writers and editors were salivating at this opportunity to roast him and Fox at the same time. Let’s put aside the fact that there are definitely some parts of Birmingham that can be dangerous places for non-Muslims to go at night. The question I have is why CNN international correspondent Jim Clancy didn’t receive that treatment from the Times and other major outlets following a bizarre Twitter exchange last week, in which he accused Israel and Zionist propaganda of being partially responsible for the Paris attacks. He also tweeted, “The [Hebdo] cartoons NEVER mocked the prophet. They mocked how the COWARDS tried to distort his word.” Today, in the wake of his Twitter meltdown, Clancy announced that he’s leaving CNN after 34 years of service – with no apologies to anybody. So far, the only media outlets that have reported on his departure: Jewish publications; Rush Limbaugh; Mediaite and the like. Knock knock, New York Times, anybody home? algemeiner/2015/01/16/anchor-jim-clancy-quits-cnn-following-abusive-twitter-exchange-with-pro-israel-activists/
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:09:00 +0000
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