EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED (Updated Info)

http://www.nationalreview.com ^ | 2/11/05 | Ramesh Ponnuru

[BCrago66]

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

[Dog]

Wow breaking news on CNN:

We are the IPOD nation.

[Fido969]

Excerpts from the pre-resignation story this afternoon:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/11/tv.cnn.jordan.ap/index.html

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Bret Stephens, a Wall Street Journal columnist, wrote Thursday that he had been in the audience for Jordan's presentation and that Jordan had said that 12 journalists in Iraq had been targeted and killed by coalition forces. Jordan also told a story about an Al-Jazeera columnist that had been tortured at Abu Ghraib prison.

Challenged immediately by another panelist, Rep. Barney Franks, Jordan said that he did not believe the Bush administration had a policy of targeting journalists ...

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"Mr. Jordan deserves some credit for retracting the substance of his remark, and some forgiveness for trying to weasel his way out of a bad situation of his own making," Stephens wrote. "Whether CNN wants its news division led by a man who can't be trusted to sit on a panel and field softball questions is another matter."

A Web site, Easongate.com, is calling for CNN to release a full transcript of what Jordan said in Switzerland.

"Mr. Jordan has been reported to have charged the U.S. military with intentionally targeting journalists," the petition says. "If he has evidence of such acts, we request that it be aired so that appropriate investigations may be undertaken by the U.S. government. We will readily assist in forwarding these claims to our elected leadership.

"If Mr. Jordan did in fact allege these acts, and has no such evidence, we ask that he be removed from his position immediately."

The Web site said 1,453 people had signed the petition by midday Thursday.

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.

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[Miss Marple]

Once again, those who oppose the President are hoist on their own petard. HAHAHAHA!

[advance_copy]

The Wall comes down a piece at a time.

It's going to hit critical mass, and the whole thing will crumble.

[Bahbah]

Wow breaking news on CNN

Cool. Sorry, kewl.

[lainde]

WooooooooHoooooooo!!!!

PajamaMujahideen strikes again!

So RELEASE THE TAPE already!!!!!!!!!!!

[expatpat]

He was fired, I bet.

[ProfoundMan]

Alright... Hugh just announced it. Glad Hugh has his pants on.

[Timeout]

There's a sort of 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon twist to this story:

Easton Jordan's Boss is Jonathan Klein

Jonathan Klein used to be head of CBS News

CBS News broadcast false documents and then Klein,
though retired, came out immediately and appeared
on Fox to support Rather. In his appearance on Fox,
he said "These are just a bunch of guys in their
living rooms in their PAJAMAS".

I sit here in my Pajamas--in my living room---
writing about Klein shoving Jordan out the door.

LOL!
pushing Jordan out the door.

[prairiebreeze]

LOL, thanks. The confirmation of the story came on post 60 and not 360 this time, luckily.

[Dog]

I sent him an email an hour ago....about time he read it.

[pugmama]

Hugh Hewitt just announced it on his show.

[mass55th]

I kind of shoved this whole story aside because his comments were just too stupid to even think about. I haven't really followed any of the threads about it, so excuse me if this has already been discussed previously, but isn't this the same guy who ignored known atrocities by Saddam Hussein and failed to report them just so they'd be able to keep the CNN office in Baghdad?

[Jack Bull]

And the Daily KOS:

http://www.dailykos.com

Not a word and it is 7:30 CST. Again, I'm stunned.

[ken5050]

O'Reilly is taped at 4 or 5 pm..it's NOT live..Hannity at 9 is ilfve..The FOx logo in the upper felt hand corner says LIVE..

[prairiebreeze]

odd don't you think the President of CNN resigns and they don't cover it.....

*snicker!*

[processing please hold]

Now we have to get to the bottom of the O'Malley(?) crap and FR.

[Sloth]

The timing is suspicious.

[prairiebreeze]

ROFL!

[Txsleuth]

Exhale---thank you!!!