Al Jazeera America Turns to MSL Qorvis to Handle 'Anti-Semitic' Lawsuit Crisis
The company is embroiled in a lawsuit filed by a former employee.
In January 2014, Publicis Groupe acquired DC-based crisis comms firm Qorvis and announced plans to merge the company with MSL Group. At the time, the company called the entity “a new powerhouse in Washington.”
Today we got a good example of what that means.
Last night our sister site TVNewser broke the story of Matthew Luke, a former Al Jazeera America employee fired in February who is suing the company for $15 million. Among the most controversial assertions in his suit are claims that his former employer, AJM SVP Osman Mahmud, made “discriminatory, anti-Semitic and anti-American remarks” including this line:
“…whoever supports Israel should die a fiery death in hell.”
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