“This is CNN. The most trusted name is news,” as they say. Well, the network has taken many shots to the face thanks to their inaccurate reporting over the Trump-Russia collusion circus, which is now one of the biggest witch-hunts since Salem. There was no collusion. Yet, shoddy reporting has leached into other areas, like koi fish feeding in Japan. This was a simple photo op in the early days of the Trump administration—and the network botched it. The list is extensive, but the network had to recently move quickly to avoid a public relations disaster with one of their photo editors. It would seem this person was a vicious anti-Semite. Certain tweets were dredged up. They’re not pretty. More damage was halted when this editor submitted his resignation last night (via Washington Examiner):
Social media posts from years ago by a CNN photo editor and writer reveal that he called Jews "pigs" and praised their deaths.
In a 2011 tweet, Mohammed Elshamy, 25, wrote, "More than 4 jewish pigs killed in #Jerusalem today by the Palestinian bomb explode. #Israel #Gaza." Elshamy joined CNN in January 2019.
The tweet was an apparent reference to the March 23, 2011 bombing of a crowded Jerusalem bus stop that injured 39 people and killed two, not four. Among them was a 14-year-old girl who remained unconscious in the hospital for six years until her death in 2017.
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CNN told the Washington Examiner on Thursday evening that "the network has accepted the resignation of a photo editor, who joined CNN earlier this year, after anti-Semitic statements he’d made in 2011 came to light. CNN is committed to maintaining a workplace in which every employee feels safe, secure and free from discrimination regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion."
So, I take it that proper vetting was not applied here.