Blogstorm descending on CNN ( Easongate situation )

RConversation ^ | February 02, 2005 | Rebecca MacKinnon,

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right-wing blogs, including Little Green Footballs, have moved their sights from CBS to CNN.  At the center of the blogstorm are comments made by my former boss Eason Jordan at Davos, in which he alleged that the U.S. military had been targeting journalists in Iraq. See the original post about it by Rony Abovitz (founder of the digital surgery company Z-Kat, attending the forum as a "tech pioneer"), which he posted on the Forumblog

- an "unnoficial" blog where World Econ Forum participants posted their impressions and views about sessions they attended. The official WEF summary does not mention Eason's remarks, and there is no transcript or webcast. But I was in the room and Rony's account is consistent with what I heard. I was also contributing to the Forumblog, but to be honest, Jordan happens to be my former boss who promoted me and defended me in some rather sticky situations after my reporting angered the Chinese government. As CNN's "senior statesman" over the years, Eason has done some things I agreed with and other things I wondered about. But at least when it came to China, he was no apologist and defended my reports on human rights abuses and political dissent. So I don't feel that I'm in a position to speak objectively on this issue, especially since I haven't been in Iraq and don't know the real situation on the ground. I would very much like to hear from other journalists working in Iraq. I'd like to hear, particularly, from other CNN reporters working in Iraq. Whether they'll be willing to speak out publicly on this issue is doubtful, but maybe others will. Maybe we'll hear from some of them anonymously. Maybe Kevin Sites and other journalists blogging from Iraq will let us know what they think.

UPDATE: I have emailed people at the World Economic Forum requesting a verbatim transcript of what precisely was said during the panel in question. I have also emailed Eason Jordan asking him whether he'd like to confirm and/or clarify his comments, since I did not record the session myself and my notes are not verbatim.

12:17 PM in Davos, Iraq, Webcred, Weblogs, journalism | Permalink

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Can I keep using netscape for e-mail and use the firefox for 'surfing'?

Short answer yes.

Currently there is not a facility to send pages found with the Firefox browser , although there is some talk that that will be changed in the next release, that would probably require Thunderbird, which is the Mail program.

Given enough memory and horsepower you might be able to have both your current browser and the firefox browser running. So if you found a webpage you wanted to fold into an E-Mail you could do a quick cut and paste of the URL and retrieve it under Netscape and then E-Mail as you do currently. Firefox is built on the Mozilla browser which was built on Netscape.

[forester]

Thanks for all your help Ernest. I found the firefox website where I can download the program for free. They also have new versions of the plug-ins Adobe and Java script. I'll let you know how it works out...

[BunnySlippers]

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