Posted on 02/11/2005 3:37:13 PM PST by BCrago66
Edited on 02/11/2005 3:48:56 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED
Top CNN exec resigning over Davos remarks By Carolyn Pritchard CBS MarketWatch Last Updated: 6:40 PM ET Feb 11, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- CNN's top news executive, Eason Jordan, said Friday he's resigning amid controversy over his assertion that journalists were targeted and killed by coaltion forces 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," he said in a note to CNN staff. CNN is a unit of Time Warner (TWX: News, Quote) .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341459/posts?page=60#60
Here's the statment, for the link see #262:
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Eason Jordan Resigns
Just got off the phone with Howard Kurtz. It's confirmed. Eason Jordan resigned today about an hour ago.
This is the statement CNN put out:
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 to helping make CNN the most trusted and respected news outlet in the world, and I would never do anything to compromise my work or that of the thousands of talented people it is my honor to work alongside.
While my CNN colleagues and my friends in the U.S. military know me well enough to know I have never stated, believed, or suspected that U.S. military forces intended to kill people they knew to be journalists, my comments on this subject in a World Economic Forum panel discussion were not as clear as they should have been.
I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise. I have great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul, in addition to my time with American soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen in Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the Arabian Gulf.
As for my colleagues at CNN, I am enormously proud to have worked with you, risking my life in the trenches with you, and making CNN great with you. For that experience, and for your friendship and support these many years, I thank you.
I told Howard Kurtz I was surprised and didn't know of any firing offense. Of course I haven't seen the tape.
What do you want to bet that Chrissy doesn't even mention Eason Jordan's resignation? (If Jordan had been a Republican, it'd be the lead in this night's program w/a panel of "experts" to disect it.)
I don't think we'll be seeing a Hardball military base tour antime soon.
Farewell, goodbye, aufwiedersehen, adieu, and most of all, SMIRK!
I predict he'll soon be announced as a guest lecturer for the coming year at Columbia U. -- they have one of the most politically correct journalism schools anywhere, so he'll be made to feel like a hero....... then he'll slip into another news exec position, or maybe something with a prominent liberal foundation.... we've got to keep the pressure on!
You win you got 60 lbs on me!
I get a little tired of some of the stuff--I am OVER the Big Lebowski, but I love it when Levin and Ramesh get into it. Derbyshire can be funny, but he needs to get off that "Out of Iraq" kick. Followed the whole Juan Cole thing like a fiend--Jonah can be pretty feisty!
Well you sure got the fastest msm report on this, as of a few minutes ago I haven't seen a thing on breaking news from google and yahoo, or ap, or reuters...
Redstate also has it up with question mark.....they are searching as we speak i'm sure
I'm nominating this for line of the day!
Gotta feel for those poor cows though, after givin' it up for shoes, they don't even have a hide left to nail on the cabin wall !
He's too late for that. CNN is so tarnished, a sandblaster wouldn't clean it up.
LOL .. I ain't that stupid to bet against that:0)
So far he hasn't.
Conservatives: Dan Rather, Eason Jordan Liberals: Jeff Gannon
Kind of like: "I'll see your Gannon...and raise you a Jordan".
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/02/11/esn_res.html
Thanks for posting the statement for all..I am amazed this is not on TV.
RELEASE THE TAPE!
Maybe unlike many internet posters he has, ah, a life?
I say the same thing to my linebacker son!
Yea .. Him and Ward Churchill can team up as guest speakers
They have a lot in common
Are you and freebilly drinking fire water tonite?
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