[DED]

Jordan can't handle math, just like the Peace Pansies.
War is BAD. If there are 100,000 people being killed each year by Saddam's regime, and war will kill 100,000 and then END the killing, then war is BAD. If there are 100,000 being killed each year by Saddam's regime, and war will kill 35,000 and then END the killing, then war is BAD.
And Jordan's argument is that telling the story could have gotten some people in his Baghdad bureau killed (how many people were IN that place anyway). But telling the story might have SAVED hundreds or more, and presumably, they could have gotten a lot of the bureau personnel OUT.
The point was they didn't want to lose the Baghdad bureau.
My question is, of what value is a bureau that reports BALONEY? Well, it still generates revenue - just ask Dan Rather. His interview with Saddam didn't answer ANYTHING, but it generated lots of bucks - and that's what these guys care about.

[Mr. Mulliner]

The example of Rather's interview with Saddam is a prime example of what's going on here with CNN.

It used to be that news bureaus really did mean something. Then about 3 decades ago networks began to see that news didn't have to be a money-loser as it had always been. Little by little news was changed from a service that the networks offered to a big cash cow. And in the process, the truth got trampled on.