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CNN Exec Clarifies Comment on Military
AP ^ | 02/10/05 | DAVID BAUDER

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; eason; easongate; easonjordan; jasongate; jordan; militaryhatred; pantiesonhead
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1 posted on 02/10/2005 4:32:36 PM PST by Pikamax
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"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 ;)


2 posted on 02/10/2005 4:33:57 PM PST by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax

OOPs..Let's see the video, Jordan.


3 posted on 02/10/2005 4:33:58 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Pikamax

Trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.


4 posted on 02/10/2005 4:34:12 PM PST by Spruce
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To: Pikamax

pppsssttt...Eason...no one believes you.


5 posted on 02/10/2005 4:34:18 PM PST by SE Mom (God Bless our troops.)
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To: Pikamax

Circle the wagons, CNN. Gotta protect your favorite leftie.


6 posted on 02/10/2005 4:34:22 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

He's a liar, and the only thing he regrets is getting caught.


7 posted on 02/10/2005 4:35:45 PM PST by mwl1
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To: Pikamax

That dumbass...he's in a hole and won't quit diggin' - I love it!!


8 posted on 02/10/2005 4:35:56 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Common Sense is an Oxymoron)
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To: Pikamax

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...


9 posted on 02/10/2005 4:36:21 PM PST by eureka! (It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
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Show me the video! Show me the video!
10 posted on 02/10/2005 4:36:29 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead (I believe in American Exceptionalism! Do you?)
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To: Dog Gone

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!!)


11 posted on 02/10/2005 4:36:39 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Pikamax
"I think the story should be moot when you read in the first accounts that he made the misstatement and he cleared it up."

Tell that to Jeff Gannon!!! That story should never have been covered to begin with!

12 posted on 02/10/2005 4:37:07 PM PST by kcvl
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...calling on CNN to release a full transcript...

Forget the freakin' transcript, I WANT TO SEE THE TAPE.

13 posted on 02/10/2005 4:37:15 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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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."

snip


14 posted on 02/10/2005 4:37:55 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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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.


15 posted on 02/10/2005 4:38:55 PM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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However, Jordan did a poor job saying so, she said. He deeply regrets that he left the wrong impression, she said.

Yeah, Uh Huh, right, sure.

16 posted on 02/10/2005 4:40:29 PM PST by ladyinred
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Just release the blasted tape CNN and we'll decide. We don't need your spin.


17 posted on 02/10/2005 4:40:48 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: eureka!

"The presstitutes are getting a taste of their own medicine. "

Why do you think they are called Urinalists?


18 posted on 02/10/2005 4:42:12 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Spruce

That would be easy if the tube sucked as bad as CNN.


19 posted on 02/10/2005 4:42:17 PM PST by SmithL (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?)
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"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?


20 posted on 02/10/2005 4:42:35 PM PST by MIT-Elephant ("Armed with what? Spitballs?")
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