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February 16, 2011, 2:21 pm

N.Y.U. Fellow Resigns After Tweeting About Lara Logan

By Tanzina Vega

The journalist Nir Rosen has resigned as a New York University fellow after a series of controversial Twitter posts about the attack on the CBS News correspondent Lara Logan.

According to reports, Mr. Rosen, a fellow at the N.Y.U. Center on Law and Security, wrote posts on the social networking site comparing the attack on Ms. Logan to the punches sustained earlier this month by the CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper. He also referred to Ms. Logan as a “war monger.”

“Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson. Where was her buddy McCrystal,” said one post that appears to have been deleted from Mr. Rosen’s account.

Another post began with an expletive and continued, “i apologize for being insensitive, its always wrong, thats obvious, but i’m rolling my eyes at all the attention she will get.”

A few hours after that post, Mr. Rosen, who has written for The New York Times Magazine and reported in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, began writing posts with a more conciliatory tone, saying “i apologize and take it back. joking with friends got out of line when i didnt want to back down. forgot twitter is not exactly private”

Hours after that, Mr. Rosen’s followers began to increase as did comments about his postings.

One from @MFehrman said:
@nirrosen Rosen,”Many a truth is spoke in jest”. You should look deeper into why you thought this was a joke. Until then, just shut up.

Another from @SidneyRabbitus said:
@nirrosen For you to try and characterize your comments in hindsight as a joke reveals even more just how clueless and thoughtless you are.

Others came to Mr. Rosen’s defense:
@animeh said:
My friend @nirrosen apologizes http://bit.ly/gUJNZT . I’ve known Nir for many years and he’s a good person who made a stupid mistake. -

While @SultanAlQassemi added
By the way @nirrosen is one of the best journalists on the field. He has apologised, I hope it is accepted.

The last Twitter post on Mr. Rosen’s page included a link to an interview with the Fishbowl DC blog where he apologized for the incident, adding that while he doesn’t regard Twitter “as a place to make serious statements,” his posts were “idiotic of me and showed terrible judgment.”

Mr. Rogan resigned from his post at N.Y.U. on Wednesday. Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of the center, issued this statement on the center’s Web site in response:

Nir Rosen is always provocative, but he crossed the line with his comments about Lara Logan. I am deeply distressed by what he wrote about Ms. Logan and strongly denounce his comments. They were cruel and insensitive and completely unacceptable. Mr. Rosen tells me that he misunderstood the severity of the attack on her in Cairo. He has apologized, withdrawn his remarks and submitted his resignation as a fellow, which I have accepted. However, this in no way compensates for the harm his comments have inflicted. We are all horrified by what happened to Ms. Logan, and our thoughts are with her during this difficult time.

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I would like to add that this scum also made the following comment:

“Yes yes its wrong what happened to her. Of course. I don't support that. But, it would have been funny if it happened to Anderson too.”

What an IDIOT!


Nir "Moron Ignoramus" Rosen