Anchor fired for cheering assassination

Dr. Whiplash · Post by **Dr. Whiplash** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:43 am

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- A Lebanese television anchor's comments and laughter regarding the assassination of Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido have caused a furor and resulted in her firing. The NBN anchor, who has not been identified, did not realize her microphone was on.

"So, why did it take them so long to kill him?" the anchor asked a colleague on live television Wednesday, the same day as Eido's death. She begins laughing, and the colleague joins in. Then she says, referring to anti-Syrian parliament member Ahmad Fatfat, "Fatfat should be next. I'm counting them down."

"We don't glee in someone else's misfortune," the colleague replies.

"It's not gloating," the anchor replied, "but we've had enough of them."

NBN is owned by Nabih Berry, a pro-Syrian politician who is speaker of Lebanon's parliament. In a statement, the station said it had fired the anchor and colleague and apologized for "an unintentional mistake." The statement said, "the comments made do not represent the station in any way."

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:11 pm

hahahah,,, god i love censorship...

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:27 pm

NBN is owned by Nabih Berry, a pro-Syrian politician

Not government enforced.... a private company making a business decision.

THIS is censorship:

Young clerk let Tiananmen ad slip past censors: paper

http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?art ... 6220070606

"References to the massacre are barred in state media, the Internet and printed works, meaning many of China's younger generation are ignorant of the events."

Now that is censorship. Not Howard's "right" to say "Penis" while Sumner pays the electric bill for the transmitter.

AmpedNow · Post by **AmpedNow** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:59 pm

Yes, but CBS made a "private business decision" to let Howard say "penis" on their radio stations.

And the government got in the way of that. They attempted to regulate content.

Egro, censorship.

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:41 pm

Nope. The word "penis" was never made illegal. References to penii were never made illegal... saying it on PUBLICLY OWNED AIRWAVES outside of safe harbor is going to bring you a fine.

Howard can say penis all he wants. He probably says it several times a day... He can write about it in his books, he can talk about it on satellite radio... he can discuss it over lunch... he can even run ads about it in certain newspapers.