It is true. I just saw the DJ newswires. Good riddance.
Top CNN exec resigning over Davos remarks
By Carolyn Pritchard CBS MarketWatch
Last Updated: 6:40 PM ET Feb 11, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- CNN's top news executive, Eason Jordan, said Friday he's resigning amid controversy over his assertion that journalists were targeted and killed by coaltion forces in Iraq. "After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq," he said in a note to CNN staff. CNN is a unit of Time Warner (TWX: News, Quote) .