Posted on 02/10/2005 4:32:36 PM PST by Pikamax
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 to release a full transcript of what Jordan said.
Jordan, speaking at the Jan. 27 panel in Davos, Switzerland, said he believed that 12 journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted.
CNN said that Jordan was responding to a comment made by another panelist that journalists killed in Iraq were collateral damage. He had intended to draw a distinction between reporters killed because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when a bomb fell, for example, and those killed because someone mistook them for the enemy, CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson said on Thursday.
However, Jordan did a poor job saying so, she said. He deeply regrets that he left the wrong impression, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
"CNN said, however, that it had no such transcript and, although a videotape reportedly exists of the conference, the meetings were held under rules forbidding participants from being quoted directly.
"I don't know how much more clear we can be," Robinson said. "I think the story should be moot when you read in the first accounts that he made the misstatement and he cleared it up."
It will be moot when we say it's moot ;)
OOPs..Let's see the video, Jordan.
Trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
pppsssttt...Eason...no one believes you.
Circle the wagons, CNN. Gotta protect your favorite leftie.
He's a liar, and the only thing he regrets is getting caught.
That dumbass...he's in a hole and won't quit diggin' - I love it!!
Gawd I love the new media! "Rathergate" and "Easongate". The presstitutes are getting a taste of their own medicine. The best part: it is only going to get worse for them. Hehehhehehe...
It is a real national tragedy when the Presidential administration has to tell the nations' media TO QUIT LYING!!!!!
THINK ABOUT IT ---- (all you stinking liberals!!)
Tell that to Jeff Gannon!!! That story should never have been covered to begin with!
Forget the freakin' transcript, I WANT TO SEE THE TAPE.
http://sisypheanmusings.blogspot.com/
Sen. Dodd Calls for Release of WEF Video on Imus
You can listen to it here, Feb. 10th--Imus talks to CT Senator Chris Dodd.
The conversation about Davos starts at the 1:35 minute mark and continues to the 4:00 minute mark
Highlights:
Sen. Dodd: "... In fairness, Davos ought to release the tape because you're getting a lot of speculation. Eason Jordan's claiming he said one thing and those of us in the audience thought we heard something else. So in fairness to him Davos ought to get the tape out and he ought to ask for it so that there's no equivocation trying to read into people's interpretations of what he said."
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If a good part of the Davos meetings were shown on CSPIN I fail to see how the rules prohibit direct quotes.
Yeah, Uh Huh, right, sure.
Just release the blasted tape CNN and we'll decide. We don't need your spin.
"The presstitutes are getting a taste of their own medicine. "
Why do you think they are called Urinalists?
That would be easy if the tube sucked as bad as CNN.
"the meetings were held under rules forbidding participants from being quoted directly."
Eason Jordan wants to bring us the 'news,' and he's talking about his craft in a forum where he can't be quoted directly? What's wrong with this picture?
Paraphrase Journalism?
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