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Posted on 02/20/2005 10:13:27 AM PST by SketchMD
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In this sense, Eason Jordan got fired for blogging. Except, of course, he's not a blogger. And nobody's ever been fired for blogging. But his words getting taken out of context and resulting in his resignation from his position put him in an untenable, unemployable position, at least to those who choose a false clarity over the nuance and understanding any of us would extend to the people we care about.
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And about Eason Jordan: More myopic blogger triumphalism. Dear political bloggers, most people, even in the blogosphere, have never heard of the whole kerfuffle, let alone the one surrounding Jeff Gannon. This is inside-baseball cliquishness at its worst. I'm not saying these guys didn't screw up, I'm saying that you didn't win. It won't temper we liberals who control the media to be more moderate, and it won't keep the White House from trying to spin the media. Net effect? Lots of negatives, few positives.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're hurting us. You're hurting all weblogs.
Thoughts?
Congressman Billybob
Actually, wise guy, I've heard of both. I fully understand the Eason issue. What Eason did is tantamount to treason (a crime which may as well be taken off the books in the modern era). I still don't get the Gannon one, and what I do get of it doesn't make me too concerned.
So it hurts weblogs to demand that the truth be told? That one's opinions should be buttressed by facts?
The dude seems to think that there should be a right to lie without facing the consequences of such when caught.
Mr. Dash misspelled anal.
Hoppa dat hepps heaps.
I resisted that joke. :p
Jordan chose to resign rather than authorizing release of the video tape that would have allowed us to see and hear his "nuance."
I'd have to guess that it was not nuanced at all, especially considering that even far-lefties like Barney Frank in the audience jumped all over him. He was in an "untenable position" because his position was in fact, untenable and undefendable.
Just ask Trent Lott about openning his fat yap and finding all escape routes from his own stupidy blocked. Lott was pandering to his audience and Jordan was pandering to his. They both deserve to pay a price for pandering.
I'm personally amazed that Eason didn't get the sack when he admitted to deliberately slanting news about Iraq in Sadman's favor befoer the war.
Why bother? Dash clearly doesn't have any.
Any credible news organization would have fired Eason when he confessed to helping hide the true horrors in Iraq simply so CNN could continue to have access to that country.
We have lived to see the creation of the most important information tool in the history of the human race - and now we are seeing it in action. If Dash wishes not to - or can't - "get it" then fine: let him go to his grave an ignorant moron.
His words could have easily been put "in context" by releasing either the tape or a transcript. He, CNN and the mainstream media decided not to do that despite all their pious preaching about the "public's right to know" on many other topics.
Eason Jordan was fired by Eason Jordan's actions. Things that a decent human being will not tolerate. That's why he's unemployable.
All Eason had to do was release the video tapes of the conference and put the matter to bed. Release the tapes, that is, if they were as benign as he (and his defenders) claimed they were. As such, he didn't and we were left with witness testimony and made judgements based on that (what else could we do?).
Next, why did Eason feel that he had to resign? After all, we're just a bunch of jackasses braying in the wilderness--who gives a rat's @ss? Eason doesn't give us any more thought and consideration than the squashed bug on the bottom of his shoe. The pressure came from the call to release the tapes. They probably damn Eason and a table-full of elitist leftist snobs, snobs that don't want the unwashed masses to see them looking down their noses at us.
I'd still like to see that tape (although it's probably a pile of ash in a dump somewhere), but I'd also like to see John Kerry's military file. IOW, not friggin' likely.
No one's been fired for Blogging?
So much for any pretense at truth.
I didn't even get into that. That theory can have holes blown in it with a spitball....
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Well, let's start:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1259761/posts
Also at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3955913.stm
and
http://queenofsky.journalspace.com/
There's one. Of course, since he has a different definition of "fired for blogging" that the rest of us, good luck convincing him of that.
Graphic ping!! !!
Piffle.
(IMO- The piece is horrible patchworth of cliche's borrowed by a writer who really doesn't understand either story. )
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