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EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED (Updated Info)
http://www.nationalreview.com ^ | 2/11/05 | Ramesh Ponnuru

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) .

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To: BCrago66

From DU:

7. eason was one of the few good guys left at cnn.

10. The White House wanted this and he was forced out. You can bet your last dollar on it. This is FASCISM.


361 posted on 02/11/2005 4:33:56 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: doug from upland

ROFLOL!


362 posted on 02/11/2005 4:33:57 PM PST by kcvl
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To: mainepatsfan

I love Kudlow.....he's got his own radio show on WABC radio....Sunday afternoon.


363 posted on 02/11/2005 4:33:58 PM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: pharmamom
Just offering a few additions:

Friedman
Ivins
Franken

364 posted on 02/11/2005 4:34:22 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thank You!

Have not been a paying to much attention to this one)


365 posted on 02/11/2005 4:34:32 PM PST by missyme (imho)
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To: doug from upland
Ward Churchill, you are next.

Fox saying, at this moment, that in April 1983 Churchill went to Libya and met with its leader, Kadofi....Fox said Churchill would not return their calls today.

366 posted on 02/11/2005 4:34:45 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: BCrago66

Word is now breaking that Keith Olberman has been taken to a secret under ground bunker.

They fear he will be the next to go down!


367 posted on 02/11/2005 4:34:56 PM PST by ArmyBratproud
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To: Libloather
Eason Jordan should have been gone a long time ago, when we first learned this for a fact:

THE MEDIA'S WAR

April 15, 2003

excerpt:

TERENCE SMITH: CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan became part of the news himself in recent days when he revealed that he withheld information about how Saddam Hussein's regime had intimidated and tortured Iraqis who had helped the Cable News Network over the years. Jordan made his comments in an op-ed piece in the New York Times last week, two days after the fall of Baghdad. He revealed on his own network Thursday night that other CNN staffers were targeted by the Iraqi government, in particular by Saddam Hussein's information minister.

I don't think I need to make an editorial comment about the likes of Eason Jordan. It speaks for itself.

368 posted on 02/11/2005 4:35:11 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: missyme

I've already started my wine for the weekend up here in cloudy Nor Cal......


369 posted on 02/11/2005 4:35:21 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: BCrago66; MEG33

Drudge scooped again!

Nothing on his front page on this.


370 posted on 02/11/2005 4:35:26 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Lazamataz

Karl Rove again..LOL!


371 posted on 02/11/2005 4:35:27 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: OldFriend

Powerlineblog rubs salt into the wound:

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/009536.php

Over at NRO's Corner Ramesh Ponnuru says he's hearing that Eason Jordan has resigned.

UPDATE by HINDROCKET: It's official. The AP is reporting that Jordan is out:

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.

"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," Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.

The AP can't resist getting this part of the story wrong:

But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up.

Actually, of course, the videotape "turned up," but the Davos folks decided to keep it under wraps, apparently in an effort to help Jordan. Jordan's problem wasn't confusion about what he said; his problem was CNN's inability to create confusion about what he said.

You may not have heard it here first, but you did hear it here. On February 7, I wrote: "This story is playing out in excruciatingly slow motion, but the ending has already been written: Eason Jordan is finished."


372 posted on 02/11/2005 4:35:34 PM PST by BCrago66
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To: pharmamom

Oh yes, and Crissy Matthews.....please....


373 posted on 02/11/2005 4:35:35 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: ArmyBratproud
Word is now breaking that Keith Olberman has been taken to a secret under ground bunker.

Keef's main worry these days is that Ann Coulter will kick his ass.

374 posted on 02/11/2005 4:35:51 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Bahbah

No kidding on Maureen Dowd...I can't understand anything she writes. If I have to work that hard at reading something, I'll give up and scrub some toilets.


375 posted on 02/11/2005 4:36:08 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Lazamataz

The DUmmies are in tears right now.


376 posted on 02/11/2005 4:36:11 PM PST by ArmyBratproud
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To: MEG33
...Eason who?!
377 posted on 02/11/2005 4:36:14 PM PST by Timeout (Dems are suffering from a severe case of Potus Envy. There is no known cure.)
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To: NorCalRepub
Swisher Sweets.
He's green cuz us crypto-fascist middle-aged white guys are pretty well camoflaged on this background.
378 posted on 02/11/2005 4:36:17 PM PST by tomkat
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To: NorCalRepub

He's not awful but he gets on my nerves for some reason.


379 posted on 02/11/2005 4:36:18 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: Lazamataz
10. The White House wanted this and he was forced out. You can bet your last dollar on it. This is FASCISM.

Oh give me a break.If this was fascism they would be locked up and never see the light of day.

380 posted on 02/11/2005 4:36:48 PM PST by Claytay ("We will fight the terrorist till Hell freezes over. Then we'll fight them on ice.")
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