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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

The double standard in the opinion war

On Wednesday CUNY professor and author Marc Lamont Hill marked his fifth anniversary of being ousted from CNN.

Prominent media figures aren’t generally in the habit of reminding people of jobs they lost, but the reason CNN terminated Hill’s contract has special relevance now: “I was fired from CNN after giving a speech at the United Nations in defense of Palestinian rights,” he posted on X (formerly Twitter).

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