You’d be surprised how much can be revealed in a 140-character “tweet” on the Twitter social network. Octavia Nasr, a 20-year veteran editor at CNN, has managed through one such mini-message to demonstrate the extent to which the Middle East discourse in Washington is shrouded in a bubble of delusion that entirely precludes rational policymaking.
Nasr, in keeping with her company’s policy for journalists to express themselves on social media platforms, last week tweeted on the death of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, calling him “One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot”. That statement would scarcely have seemed controversial in the Middle East.
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