Revisiting some of the Blogs more carefully found this from :
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Investor's Business Daily: Crossing Jordan
Investor’s Business Daily breaks media silence on the Eason Jordan story: Crossing Jordan. (Hat tip: Easongate.)
Now Jordan’s in the stew again. Speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan made an arresting charge. He claimed the U.S. military, while pacifying Iraq, had targeted both American and foreign journalists.
Panel chairman David Gergen, according to insider accounts, gasped. The man who’d worked in administrations from Nixon’s to Clinton’s demanded evidence. Liberal Congressman Barney Frank, who was there, also demanded proof.
Jordan backed off — slightly. But afterward he accepted congratulations from Arab reporters who called him heroic.
That’s when the bloggers stepped in, including some who were actually there. Then master blogger Hugh Hewitt took up the case. Soon the blogosphere was electric with outrage over Jordan’s irresponsible charge. Now there’s an easongate.com, tracking the scandal’s every fact, every claim, every angle, and demanding CNN come clean.
Why “scandal”? Jordan was spouting outrageous charges with no basis in fact. In journalism, even in High Church Journalism, that is a cardinal sin. Rising to the topmost reaches of media power does not exempt one from the first rules learned in journalism class.
The bloggers, who’ve done so much recently to correct the elite media’s misbehavior — including sending CBS’s Dan Rather to newsman’s purgatory — now have Eason Jordan as quarry.
Deservedly so. It’s time for him to go.
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Media critic Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post finally broke his paper's long silence on the Eason Jordan matter this morning, coming down squarely on Jordan's side in an apparent effort to help Jordan keep his job. Kurtz's story is sub-headlined "CNN new chief clarifies his comments on Iraq;" Jordan gave Kurtz an interview in which he repeated the spin that CNN has been putting on the story from the beginning: that is, that Jordan made the point that journalists have not been "targeted," but have sometimes been killed on purpose under the mistaken impression that they were terrorists.
Kurtz provides a partial accounting of the eyewitness accounts, omitting Rebecca MacKinnon, providing a friendly quote from David Gergen, and adding an interview with a BBC representative who was present.
The most interesting aspect of the article is that Kurtz evidently asked Jordan about his allegation last November that:
[A]t least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces,
Jordan explained the "torture" reference to Kurtz:
In the interview last night, Jordan said he and a group of other news executives have discussed with a top Pentagon official allegations by Iraqi employees of NBC, Reuters and al-Jazeera "who claimed to have been detained and tortured by the U.S. military. They all came out with horrific statements about what had been done to them."
Statements which Jordan believes to be true. Kurtz apparently didn't ask Jordan about his November statement that "at least 10 journalists have been killed by the U.S. military; in context, he doesn't seem to be referring to inadvertent deaths.
Kurtz does, however, add this tantalizing observation:
At the World Economic Forum, participants say, the only specific case cited by Jordan was the April 2003 incident in which U.S. forces fired a tank round at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, killing a cameraman employed by Reuters and another for the Spanish network Telecinco. Military spokesmen said the troops were responding to sniper fire from the hotel, which was known to house about 100 foreign journalists, and defended the shelling as "a proportionate and justifiably measured response."But Jordan supplied a list of the other incidents, such as a tank firing on and killing Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana as he was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. U.S. officials said the troops mistook Dana's camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
So Jordan supplied a list, presumably of twelve or more incidents, of which we now know of two. Let's see the list. And let's see the tape of the Davos session. For now, at least, CNN undoubtedly hopes that this story has ground to a halt with the "limited, modified hang-out" facilitated by Kurtz.
UPSDATE by BIG TRUNK: For an account of the Jordan scandal without the Kurtz spin, see Roderick Boyd's New York Sun article: "A CNN executive says G.I.s in Iraq target journalists."
The boards and CEOs of the companies who pay more per minute to advertise on CNN versus Fox News, need to start getting letters from those of us who own stock in their companies.
Hopefully someone will come out with a list of these advertisers. Then I can run a search on our mutual funds to see if we have any ownership of these companies.
If our mutual funds own stock in these companies, I will seen emails/letters to the CEO/fund managers demanding that they sell those shares unless CNN fires Eason. Then I will send letters/emails to the boards of these companies demanding action on their part.