Jordan v. Mattis

Stones Cry Out ^ | 2/5/05

[Valin]

Hugh Hewitt is a master of his craft and proves it with his description of the MSM's disparate treatment of Jordan and Mattis.

It took only 48 hours for four major newspapers to run stories on comments made by Lt. Gen. Mattis this past Tuesday [HT: Hugh]). The General provided the MSM with a meaty sound bite, "It's fun to shoot some people" and they went with it.

But why the blackout of the apparently equally meaty soundbites provided by CNN Chief Eason Jordan? According to one blogger who was present during Jordan's remarks,

Eason Jordan asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by US troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted. He repeated the assertion a few times, which seemed to win favor in parts of the audience (the anti-US crowd) and cause great strain on others.

We know that there is video of the event, and we know that the MSM is "investigating," but why, after more than a week since Jordan's statements, has there not been a single MSM story on the subject?

CNN asserted that bloggers have taken Eason's statements out of context. This is laughable coming on the heels of the Mattis story where almost every MSM sound bite of Mattis that I saw left out key context. The point is that Jordan's comments may be taken out of context or misrepresented by numerous witnesses, but this possibility makes it is more imperative, not less, for the MSM to cover the story and to set the bloggers straight. Judging from this account, and Jordan's history of similar statements, the full context is likely to be more condemning of Jordan.

At first I was willing to cut the MSM some slack on this one. But they have now run out of rope.

Posted by Rick at February 5, 2005 07:33 PM

[Valin]

Click on source for more

[bitt]

ping me for the video? I'll wait....:)

[RAY]

We don't expect anything better from the MSM. I have never seen a group, under the guise of fairness, who have so unfairly treated the honorable patriots of our time and the noble efforts of our other public servants.

We know that bad things happen - but what about all the good?

Mankind's efforts to do good, in spite of our many negative impulses and short comings continues to amaze me - occasionally we even find a national politician who strives to serve the national good - and I firmly believe our President and Vice President are in this category!!!

[Valin]

Well put.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[Youngman442002]

Windage and Elevaton..... boys and girls

[beaelysium]

It Eason Jordan who admitted after we took Baghdad that CNN had been withholding the truth about the Iraqi regime for years. In the New York Times, he confessed that his network didn't report all the "awful things" it learned about life under Saddam Hussein. His reason: that CNN was afraid that Iraq's information ministry would shut down that bureau and cut off CNN's access to Iraqi "newsmakers."

CNN's Access of Evil The network of record covered Saddam's repression with propaganda.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003336

BY FRANKLIN FOER Monday, April 14, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT