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Journalist group calls US to account over Iraq Dominic Timms Friday February 18, 2005 The US government was today accused of hiding behind a "culture of denial" over the deaths of at least 12 journalists who are alleged to have perished at the hands of the US military in Iraq. Re-igniting the debate that US soldiers deliberately "targeted" journalists during the Iraqi occupation, a press freedom body called on the US to take "responsibility" for its actions in the country. Responding to what it said was the "hounding out" of the CNN news chief, Eason Jordan, the International Federation of...

With the recent toppling of CBS's Dan Rather and now CNN's top news executive, Eason Jordan, I think we can declare without fear of contradiction that rigor mortis is settling over the carcass of the Fourth Estate. At least as we once knew it. I make this pronouncement without pleasure, and in fact, suggest that we're really witnessing a double funeral. One is for traditional journalism as the omnipotent gatekeeper of information. As bloggers -- authors of Web logs -- have gleefully pointed out the past several days, everyone with access to the Internet is now a journalist. Given the...

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It was inevitable from the moment the World Economic Forum decided to change its mind about releasing the videotape of Eason Jordan's remarks at Davos. Consider these "statistics" from an op-ed today in the left-wing Seattle P-I (ht Greg Ransom via Lorie Byrd): Mainstream media reportage in the United States about the occupation in Iraq is being censured, distorted, threatened by the military and controlled by corporations that own the outlets. Recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Eason Jordan, a CNN executive, told a panel that the U.S. military deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq. He said he...

While the Staff of Easongate would have preferred the release of the tape to fully air all concerns, we believe Eason Jordan’s resignation is an admission of guilt and he has been properly disciplined by stepping down from his responsibilities at CNN. We will continue to follow various stories directly related to Easongate, however the pursuit of the tape will occur elsewhere. The issue of the tape remains a serious impediment to getting to the bottom of this story. Eason Jordan’s resignation did not clear up the serious allegations of United States military personnel intentionally targeting journalists. The media has...

Suppose you were publisher of the New York Times and you discovered that your newspaper had been scooped by the Toledo Blade, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Michelle Malkin (a girl, for heaven's sake) by Romy Abovits and Hugh Hewitt, The Weekly Standard, Fox News, The New York Sun, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times, Captain Ed Morrissey, the folks at Power Line Blog—yes, all of the above and Romy Abovits, too—don't forget ol' Romy— And further suppose that the intrepid and enterprising Iowa raptor, David Burge, bestower of scarlet birettas, had already published a...

Blog pundits claim CNN scalp Roy Eccleston FEBRUARY 17, 2005 "THEY'RE scared spitless," says Glenn Reynolds. "But they shouldn't be." The University of Tennessee law professor and author of the popular web log - blog - InstaPundit.com is talking about the reaction of the mainstream US media in the week after bloggers gleefully claimed the scalp of a top CNN executive. This scalp belonged to Eason Jordan, who was claimed to have accused the US military of deliberately targeting reporters in Iraq and killing a dozen of them. Exactly what Jordan said at the World Economic Forum in Davos isn't...

I did not realize I was a “salivating moron” until Steve Lovelady, Managing Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, informed me of that fact. His full quote was even harsher. Regarding the abrupt resignation of Eason Jordan, chief news executive for CNN, Lovelady wrote about us bloggers, “The salivating morons who make up the lynch mob prevail.” I think he meant to write “prevailed.” His statement has become the signature quote in many publications from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal on l’affaire Jordan. However inaccurate, that quote does embody the attitudes of the MSM (“mainstream media”)...

Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) is continuing to spread at an epidemic rate through the US media. The syndrome is characterized by blindness to anything other than US transgressions, paranoia regarding the US government, delusions of conspiracy, and a feverish hostility toward President Bush. Like the common cold, the famous and powerful are not immune. Dan Rather was stricken and succumbed to the lure of forged documents. Walter Cronkite was caught babbling that Karl Rove "set up" Usama's last tape. Now Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, is displaying symptoms. Eason-gate (or Eason-a-Quiddick depending on your inclination) is being touted as...

With the recent toppling of CBS's Dan Rather and now CNN's top news executive, Eason Jordan, I think we can declare without fear of contradiction that rigor mortis is settling over the carcass of the Fourth Estate. At least as we once knew it. I make this pronouncement without pleasure, and in fact, suggest that we're really witnessing a double funeral. One is for traditional journalism as the omnipotent gatekeeper of information. As bloggers - authors of Web logs - have gleefully pointed out the past several days, everyone with access to the Internet is now a journalist. Given the...

Another subject people are asking me about is Eason Jordan, and, "Rush, why haven't you talked about this much?" The main reason I haven't talked about it, and I'll be very honest, is because it started out as a blogger issue. The whole first week -- well, whole first week, three to five days, three to four days of the first week -- it was a blogger issue, and, folks, I have to tell you, it didn't surprise me. Now, maybe I need to take a longer vacation, but Eason Jordan? Here's a guy who wrote a piece in the...

Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - David Brock, a former investigative reporter for conservative publications before flipping his political ideology and writing a book titled, "Blinded by the Right," said Monday that the best way for liberals to expose the current conservative influence in the media is to show how conservatives are "simply willing to lie." Brock is currently the president and CEO of Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog that takes on some of the biggest names in conservative media. In authoring the 2002 book, "Blinded by the Right, The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative," Brock not only distanced himself...

A CNN news executive forced to quit: That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." On the radio "Factor" last week I received some calls from listeners wanting to know about CNN executive Eason Jordan (search), who made a mistake in Switzerland when he told an international audience that American forces in Iraq had deliberately killed some journalists. Jordan quickly backed off the statement, but the damage was done. Over the weekend, CNN forced him to quit. Now the reason I did not report the story to you last week is that I didn't know what happened. No...

Former CNN exec Eason Jordan - who abruptly resigned amid a storm of controversy over his claim that U.S. soldiers had allegedly targeted journalists in Iraq - has a new bombshell. A blond one. Word is that Jordan is dating Sharon Stone. I'm told that the 46-year-old movie siren hooked up with the 44-year-old news executive during the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland.

Eason Jordan This annual lecture was established in 1981 at the Nieman Foundation by Morris's family, friends, colleagues and is given annually by a distiguished American overseas correspondent or commentator on foreign affairs. Here is a slightly edited transcript of the talk given on March 10, 1999, by Eason Jordan and the question-and-answer session that followed his speech.     I thank you very much for being here tonight. Let me also thank Fidel Castro. In the earliest days of CNN, when CNN was meant to be seen only in the United States, the enterprising Fidel Castro was pirating...

The Jordan Kerfuffle February 14, 2005; Page A18 The writers of these columns believe that, in addition to having opinions, we are ultimately in the same information business as the rest of the press corps. Which is why we try to break news whenever we can if a story merits the attention. So it was only normal for our Bret Stephens to report a January 27 panel discussion he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during which CNN's Eason Jordan appeared to say -- before he tried to unsay it -- that U.S. troops had deliberately targeted...

I Would Have Fired Eason Jordan On the difference between a mistake and brain rot. By Jack Shafer Posted Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, at 3:40 PM PT The Wall Street Journal editorial page, never the most sympathetic venue for speakers who accuse the U.S. military of murdering civilians, thinks CNN wronged its chief news executive, Eason Jordan, by forcing him to resign over his statements at Davos. Although the Jan. 27 Davos session was closed to the public, a consensus holds that Jordan claimed knowledge of 12 journalists who had been targeted and killed by U.S. forces. When challenged by...

February 15, 2005 Citizen journalists relish their power to overthrow press A TOP CNN news executive who was forced to resign over remarks about US soldiers killing journalists in Iraq has highlighted the power of internet bloggers to end the careers of some of the traditional media’s most prominent figures. Eason Jordan, CNN’s chief news executive, resigned on Friday after being pounded for days by bloggers — “citizen journalists” who publish their own websites — for reportedly saying at an international conference that United States soldiers had targeted 12 journalists killed in Iraq. Mr Jordan’s departure comes after the humiliation...

Bill O'Reill just interviewed the American who was at Davos, and who challenged Jordan on his claim that US forces had targeted and killed 12 American reporters in Iraq. The gentleman was excellent, and he related how Barney Frank had stepped up and challenged the accusation. Good for Barney. He then said, quoting, that "David Gergen, the panel moderator, asked Frank, as a representative of the US government to respond to this accusation against US troops. So, if Frank was there in an offical capacity, on the taxpayer's dime, then he cannot participate, I believe, in a closed, off the...

On the merits of the Eason Jordan kerfuffle, we defer to our colleague Bret Stephens, who was there, and who was the first journalist to write about it, in the Jan. 28 issue of OpinionJournal's Political Diary. Still, there's no gainsaying the victory that Jordan's critics in and out of blogdom, who pursued the story relentlessly in the two ensuing weeks, won when Jordan announced on Friday night that he was leaving CNN. "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...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - First CBS's Dan Rather, then CNN's Eason Jordan, Internet bloggers have come of age as media watchdogs with their part in the downfall of these influential, high-profile media heads. Jordan, a top CNN executive responsible for the network's coverage in Iraq, resigned Friday following remarks suggesting the US military was deliberately targeting journalists. The January 27 comments were initially ignored by mainstream reporters, but picked up and trumpeted across the Internet by an army of bloggers. Jordan's downfall follows that of veteran CBS television news anchor Dan Rather, who announced he will resign in March after bloggers...

Now that two days have passed since we heard the news of the resignation, a few thoughts… First, let’s recognize the context: Once Eason Jordan wrote that New York Times op-ed, his reputation had a big black mark on it. Jordan deserved a smidgen of credit: it must have taken guts to write that op-ed, and to admit that CNN knew about certain horrific activities by Saddam, Uday, Qusay, and the secret police “that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.” But a serious rebuke, or at...

In a 1999 lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, former CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan told the audience that CNN International was directly inspired by Fidel Castro: I thank you very much for being here tonight. Let me also thank Fidel Castro. In the earliest days of CNN, when CNN was meant to be seen only in the United States, the enterprising Fidel Castro was pirating and watching CNN in Cuba. Fidel was intrigued by CNN. He wanted to meet the person responsible. So Ted Turner, who at that point had never traveled to a...

I've been doing this for a long time now. By "this" I of course mean eating while I type. But I also mean this Internet thing. This column in fact pre-dates NRO itself and NRO is now considered one of those ancient landmarks of the Internet, like some old city that has been razed and rebuilt so many times nobody remembers why certain streets have the names they do. I remember when the first blogs started to appear and I was not particularly bullish on their chances for success. Of course, I was wrong about a great deal and right...

While admitting that former CNN news chief Eason Jordan "has a knack for indefensible remarks, including a 2003 New York Times op-ed in which he admitted that CNN had remained silent about Saddam's atrocities in order to maintain its access in Baghdad," today's Wall Street Journal criticized CNN for throwing Mr. Jordan overboard for his latest comments about U.S. armed forces allegedly killing journalists deliberately.

This article was reported by Katharine Q. Seelye, Jacques Steinberg and David F. Gallagher. With the resignation Friday of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months.In September, conservative bloggers exposed flaws in a report by Dan Rather; he subsequently announced that on March 9 he would step down as anchor of the "CBS Evening News." On Friday, after nearly two weeks of intensifying pressure on the Internet, Eason Jordan, the chief news executive at CNN, abruptly resigned after being besieged by the online community. Morever,...

An article by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post on the Eason Jordan resignation quoted Steve Lovelady "of Columbia Journalism Review" as saying of this event, "The salivating morons who make up the lynch mob prevail." This struck me as a grossly unprofessional remark by anyone who claimed to be a journalist. So, I wrote a detailed letter to the Editor of the Review, demanding an apology. Back came a letter this morning from Mr. Lovelady, which makes it clear that neither he nor the Review have a clue about the blogosphere. They do not understand our work, nor do...

If one is an incident, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend, feature this - top news executives at the New York Times, CBS News, and CNN, all toppled in the past two years by scandals that were heightened by pressure from new journalistic outlets. Taken in isolation, the departures of the New York Times's executive editor, Howell Raines, and his managing editor, Gerald Boyd; the managing editor of the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather, and three other CBS executives; and the executive vice president and chief news executive of CNN, Eason Jordan, would each be big events....

Jordan stated that a number of journalists had been killed by the US military in Iraq and that some of those killings were intentional, not ''collateral damage." Representative Frank and others sharply questioned him on whether he was saying that American forces had deliberately targeted members of the press. Jordan replied that what he meant was that some journalists were killed intentionally rather than accidentally --

The media has accepted the resignation of Eason Jordan without question, and has portrayed the pursuit of the truth by bloggers as a lynch mob with a political agenda. David Bauder's Associated Press account unquestioningly accepts Eason Jordan's statement that he "quickly backed off the remarks". Several in attendance have stated otherwise. The facts, many of which the media are wholly ignoring, should be remembered before Mr. Jordan's statements are accepted without criticism. · Eason Jordan has a history of accusing American soldiers of killing and torturing journalists without providing evidence. · Every eyewitness on record from the Davos conference,...

Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters By KATHERINE Q. SEELYE his article was reported by Katharine Q. Seelye, Jacques Steinberg and David F. Gallagher. With the resignation Friday of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months. In September, conservative bloggers exposed flaws in a report by Dan Rather; he subsequently announced that on March 9 he would step down as anchor of the "CBS Evening News." On Friday, after nearly two weeks of intensifying pressure on the Internet, Eason Jordan, the chief news executive at...

(from email received Friday 1/28/2005) Dear ______: As you may already know, AlwaysOn, in partnership with Speedera, will be bringing you live webcasts of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland all week long. Go to www.alwayson-network.com to see what's on now! Below is the schedule for the coming day's webcasts. All times are PST: 12:20am-1:00am | Special Message - Gerhard Schroeder 12:50am-2:15am | Is the Peace Process Poised for a Resurrection? 3:20am-5:00am | Addressing the Role of the United States in World Affairs 6:05am-7:30am | A View from the Hill on US Foreign Policy in Bush II 6:20am-8:00am |...

Is Rupert Murdoch sheltering his own Eason Jordan? Gerard JacksonBrookesNews.ComMonday 14 February 2005 For those of who have been out of the loop, Eason Jordon was a top executive at CNN who accused the American military of targeting journalists. For this vicious slander he was forced to resign, but only because the blogs had mercilessly exposed him on a daily basis. But Jordan is not alone in his anti-American bigotry. Peter Wilson, foreign correspondent for Murdoch’s Australian, has also accused the American military of targeting journalists (Murdoch’s Australian, Shooting the messenger, 10 May 2004). Wilson sets the mood by...

Sad conclusion in the Eason Jordan affair (see below the New York Times article), sad day for the freedom of expression in America and sad day again for the future of blogging: the defense of the US army honor seemed more important to some bloggers than the defense of reporters' work (and sometimes life)! Nevertheless, there is one advantage in this story: masks are fallen! Within the honest community of bloggers, some of them claimed to be the "sons of the First Amendment", they just were the sons of Senator McCarthy. And this is very worrying to see this new...

On the day that terrorists flew jets into New York's World Trade Center, CNN's head of newsgathering appeared remarkably impassive as he stood in the network's frenetic main newsroom in Atlanta. His expressions were sphinx-like, as they often were. But unconsciously, his hands fiddled nonstop with the ring from a plastic bottle cap. "It's important for someone to remain calm," he said at the time. "We have a lot of excited, anxious, busy people. . . . I'm trying to think two or three steps ahead. Where do we need to be?" Jordan, CNN's chief news executive and one of...

In the Blogosphere, Lightning Strikes Thrice By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 13, 2005; Page D01 The blogosphere, with its lightning speed and rough-edged sense of justice, seems to be claiming more victims more quickly. Three dramatic departures in recent days have highlighted the one-strike-and-you're-out nature of trial by Internet. Eason Jordan quit under pressure as CNN's chief news executive Friday night over his remarks on U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq, following a relentless campaign by online critics but scant coverage in the mainstream press. In past episodes, journalists have been forced to resign, or news...

CNNer: "He's Getting Unfairly Railroaded" A CNN staff member's e-mail to TVNewser: "I'm disappointed that Jordan resigned. This story was pretty much a he said/she said sort of situation, and he immediately conceded that he misspoke and in no way meant to endorse the position implied by his more incendiary critics. He's getting unfairly railroaded, especially by the right-wing bloggers eager to take any opportunity to take down one of the big names in journalism -- the "liberal media." It's ugly. Jordan has done amazing things for the network in the 23 years he has been there. I'm not going...

Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an effort to quell a burgeoning controversy over his remarks about U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. Even as he said he had misspoken at an international conference in suggesting that coalition troops had "targeted" a dozen journalists and insisted he never believed that, Jordan was being pounded hourly by bloggers, liberals as well as conservatives, who provided the rocket fuel for a story that otherwise might have fizzled. Jordan, 44, said in a statement yesterday that he was quitting after 23 years at the network "to prevent CNN...

WASHINGTON, February 12 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan quit on Friday, February 11, over remarks he made at last month's World Economic Forum in Davos in which he accused US forces of targeting journalists 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,” Jordan said in a letter to colleagues posted on the Web site of the all-news American network. The resignation...

February 12, 2005 -- The red-faced news chief of CNN, Eason Jordan, resigned yesterday after making outrageous claims that American troops deliberately tracked down and killed certain journalists in Iraq. Jordan put his foot in his mouth two weeks ago during a panel discussion at a world economic summit in Davos, Switzerland. He startled his listeners when he said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been deliberately targeted.

For those of us in the information business, this is truly an earth-shaking time. Who would have imagined that the downfall of one of the world's most powerful news executives would be precipitated by an ordinary citizen blogging his eyewitness report at Davos in the wee hours of the morning on Jan. 27? It's simply stunning. The courage of Rony Abovitz cannot be overstated. This ordinary American citizen raised his voice at an international forum of media and political heavyweights--also attended by Europe's most influential America-haters--and demanded that Eason Jordan back up his poisonous assertion about the American military targeting...

Eason Jordan Resigns Just got off the phone with Howard Kurtz. It's confirmed. Eason Jordan resigned today about an hour ago (6 pm EST). There are lots of reactions. Here is an AP Story. Here is CNN's account. And Howard Kurtz's. See Instapundit's. This is the statement Eason Jordan released tonight around 6:00 pm EST: 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. I have devoted my professional life...

Eason Jordan, a senior executive at CNN who was responsible for coordinating the cable network's Iraq coverage, resigned abruptly last night, citing a journalistic tempest he touched off during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month in which he appeared to suggest that United States troops were targeting and killing journalists. Though no transcript of Mr. Jordan's remarks at Davos on Jan. 27 has been released, the panel's moderator, David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News & World Report, said in an interview last night that Mr. Jordan had initially spoken of...

CNN's Chief News Exec Resigns Remarks Linked Troops To Journalists' Deaths By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 12, 2005; Page A01 Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an effort to quell a bubbling controversy over his remarks about U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. Even as he said he had misspoken at an international conference in suggesting that coalition troops had "targeted" a dozen journalists and insisted he never believed that, Jordan was being pounded hourly by bloggers, liberal as well as conservatives, who provided the rocket fuel for a story that...

Freepers...in this moment of triumph, let us never forget the first crime committed by Eason Jordan. In April 2003, he confessed in a New York Times column that CNN covered up many of Saddam's crime in order to keep a news bureau in Baghdad. It is for this reason that I will never again turn to CNN...not even for a second. Never forget.

NEW YORK - CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq (news - web sites). Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy. During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (news - web sites) last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted. He quickly backed off the remarks, explaining that he meant to distinguish between journalists killed because they were...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version February 11, 2005, 12:36 p.m. Eason Jordan vs. the BlogosphereThe heat is on. This week on CNBC’s Kudlow & Cramer I asked three influential U.S. senators about the CNN scandal regarding news executive Eason Jordan. To recap, at last month’s economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan publicly accused the U.S. military of deliberately targeting journalists in order to assassinate them. Senators George Allen, Jeffrey Sessions, and Norman Coleman all agreed with columnist Michelle Malkin’s characterization that Jordan and his CNN defenders have “slimed the military.”...

CNN Executive in Hot Seat Over Iraq Claim Fri Feb 11, 2005 04:08 AM ET By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CNN on Thursday sought to quell the media frenzy enveloping a top executive who suggested that U.S. troops were deliberately firing on journalists in Iraq. During a Jan. 27 session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, CNN executive vp/chief news executive Eason Jordan reportedly said that 12 journalists had been targeted and killed by U.S. troops in Iraq. While Jordan was challenged about the figure and the assertion itself -- and according to a...

CNN Exec Clarifies Comment on Military CNN Executive Says He Doesn't Believe Military Intended to Kill Journalists in Iraq War By DAVID BAUDER The Associated Press Feb. 10, 2005 - Despite comments that may have left a different impression, CNN's chief news executive said Thursday that he does not believe the U.S. military intended to kill journalists in the Iraq war. CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan is involved in a controversy over comments he made at the World Economic Forum last month. One Web logger has already called it "Easongate," and an online petition is circulating calling on CNN...