CNN Removes Reporter Diana Magnay From Israel-Gaza After 'Scum' Tweet

[BainsBane]

NEW YORK -- CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after she tweeted that Israelis who were cheering the bombing of Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.”

“After being threatened and harassed before and during a liveshot, Diana reacted angrily on Twitter,” a CNN spokeswoman said in a statement to The Huffington Post.

“She deeply regrets the language used, which was aimed directly at those who had been targeting our crew," the spokeswoman continued. "She certainly meant no offense to anyone beyond that group, and she and CNN apologize for any offense that may have been taken.”

The spokeswoman said Magnay has been assigned to Moscow.

Magnay appeared on CNN Thursday from a hill overlooking the Israel-Gaza border. While she reported, Israelis could be heard near her cheering as missiles were fired at Gaza.

After the liveshot, Magnay tweeted: “Israelis on hill above Sderot cheer as bombs land on #gaza; threaten to ‘destroy our car if I say a word wrong’. Scum.” The tweet was quickly removed, but not before it had been retweeted more than 200 times.

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[Barack_America]

1. How do you know something true has been said on twitter?

The message itself is gone, but the retweets rage on.

"Scum". Those who would cheer, and threaten, violence. Yeah, I would say that fits.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. Sounds like pretty scummy behavior to me.

[craigmatic]

3. Sounds like CNN is afraid of taking a stand on an issue. In other news the sun is warm and grass is

green.

[markpkessinger]

18. It's a great concept . . .

. . . but is not exactly what CNN does. CNN aims to do viewpoint journalism -- rather like FOX -- only without a viewpoint.

[cali]

5. say what? Look, I understand her frustrations

and sympathize. That crowd deserved that appellation, but doing so is a huge, longstanding no-no for reporters. Do tell why you think this is about Jews.

[lululu]

8. It's about Zionists, not Jews.

Many Jews despise what Israel is and has been doing, just as many non-Jews do.

And there certainly is a right and wrong here, as someone else claimed there wasn't below. Ever since the Zionist's started moving in a hundred years or so ago and then the Western powers handed then a hunk of Palestinian land, there's been wrong done. I guess Lebanon is lucky the Zionist plans to expand into there didn't happen.

[cali]

14. fail. First off Zionism is not a monolithic philosophy.

Secondly, your history is deficient. The Zionist movement started in earnest in the 19th century. Not to mention that you left out a great deal in your brief accounting.

Ugh. another ignorant and disgusting post. Oh, and before you call me an Israel apologist, I'd suggest you check out my posts on I/P.

[boston bean]

6. WTF?!

[elias7]

7. As a Jew, I'm offended by your statement

There's no right or wrong side here. If you think it is so simple, then I applaud you.

[snooper2]

15. well, in this side story there was only one side, the cheering fucking assholes on the hill

and the reporter, which should be nuetral but chose to speak her mind--

[geek tragedy]

9. Punished for being a little too honest

on Twitter.

[cali]

11. she broke a cardinal rule of journalism. Now maybe it shouldn't be a cardinal rule, but it is.

[geek tragedy]

12. Twitter is a dangerous thing. nt

[cali]

13. Sure is a lot of evidence to support that claim!

[BainsBane]

16. how sad this thread turns into an excuse for anti-semitism

This conflIct is ugly wIth all kinds of fault to be had on all sides. Do we really need to make it any uglier than it already is?

[Electric Monk]

17. Didn't that start with your OP?

We're back to that old question of where do you draw the lines? When is it criticism of Israeli policy and when is it just hating Jews?

I'm pretty critical of Israeli foreign policy, as of late, for what it's worth. Collective punishment is against the Geneva Convention.

[BainsBane]

19. Are you saying posting the news

Is antisemetic? This a MSM source about an MSM cable outlet.

[BainsBane]

20. No response?

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I don't appreciated being insulted as a bigot. If you are going to do so, at least have the decency to follow up by explaining precisely what you mean.

[Electric Monk]

23. As Stephen Colbert famously said, "reality has a well known liberal bias".

Sometimes news is simply news, and next we have Sandy with traffic and then we'll have Pat with the weather.

[Electric Monk]

24. How would you describe people cheering at missiles being fired into residential areas?

Do take your time. I'll wait.

[BainsBane]

25. What I'm asking is how my posting that news makes me antisemitic

Do you suggest all news that presents Israelis in any but favorable terms be censored?

How does posting a news story make me responsible for imposing collective blame?

[Electric Monk]

26. I didn't say that "posting that news makes me(you) antisemitic".

This is simply news (ie. things that happened) that paints some (not all) Israelis in a bad light.

[BainsBane]

27. You responded to my post about antisemitism

by saying I started it by posting the OP, which I took to mean that you thought my doing so made me an anti-Semite.

[Electric Monk]

28. Your "how sad this thread turns into an excuse for anti-semitism" post seemed disingenuous

or else naive. I gave you the benefit of the doubt.

[Jenoch]

21. I am glad she was reassigned and not fired.

I gurss this sort of cheering happens when there is such animosity between various ethnic and religious groups. I recall seeing video of Muslims in the U.S. cheering at the time of the terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon.

[BainsBane]

22. Yes, we have seen a lot of footage of that sort of thing

including during this conflict. Now we see it happens on both sides.