Long-time presenter Jim Clancy leaves CNN after ‘anti-Israel’ Twitter rant ― RT USA
Veteran US TV journalist Jim Clancy has abruptly left the international news broadcaster after 34 years, following a seemingly tangential Twitter argument over Charlie Hebdo that escalated to a verbal war between Clancy and pro-Israel social media users.
“Jim Clancy is no longer with CNN. We thank him for more than three decades of distinguished service, and wish him nothing but the best,” said a terse statement from the Atlanta-headquartered network, which had sent Clancy as a reporter to Beirut, London, and Berlin before making him a senior anchor and contributor.
Although neither Clancy nor CNN revealed the reasons for the departure, almost all media outlets connected it with a somewhat incoherent Twitter spat that began in the wake of the fatal attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine.
シャルリ•エブドを擁護したクランシーにユダヤ系ブロガーとアナリストが、あの表現は宗教攻撃だと反論。そういう君らはメディアの名を借りたイスラエルのPR会社じゃないか、と変な方向に泥沼化。なぜか反イスラエル的な口調になってしまったクランシーをCNNが実質解雇。
