Imsgine what could have happened if cnn had pulled its people, and made a campaign out of the atrocities it know of twelve years ago. I betcha they would have won every award out there including a Nobel prize. They can all take their crazy sense of ethics and go away.
Consider this war may have been unnecessary had CNN done it's damn job.
CNN is a news-gathering organization (albeit with a leftist bent). Its job is to gather and disseminate news. In order to do that, it needs to be where the news is happening. Sometimes it needs to hold its nose and overlook stuff in order to stay there. It needs to employ local people who know the area and the language.
Pulling out would have endangered those local folks who would have had to stay behind. They would also lose a prime source for news. Factually reporting all they knew would get people tortured and killed and others kicked out of the country.
Eason Jordan knew all of this. To his credit, he did advise King Hussein when he learned of a specific threat. Now he has revealed this nastyness to all of us. Frankly, I think the guy deserves a couple of attaboys for being the first to do it. There will be others. Surely, CNN is not the only organization which had to overlook and not report stuff that it knew in order to protect its people.