[Petronski]

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.

[MEG33]

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!

[vrwcagent0498]

Hi, do you have a link to that? I've got some friends on another blog who will love this...

[arasina]

"...I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy..."

That's like saying "I'm sorry you were offended" and considering it an apology.

[Shermy]

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 think what's worse is his 23 years of work coddling with dictators so CNN can continue to get video.

[prairiebreeze]

Not only does CNN totally SUCK, so his "23 years" must add up to a complete WASTE, but this fools pants are cinders from all these lies in his official statement.

LIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIAR!!!!!