CNN's Eason Jordan has no apologies

CBS Marketwatch ^ | April 18, 2003 | Jon Friedman

[machman]

More about our favorite news network.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Eason Jordan has no apologies

....or conscience, or morals, or viewers.

[jporcus]

I was always suspicious of CNN, but now the proof is plain that it has no credibility. The "We lied, but we had to" excuse doesn't wash for a news organization. Why do people continue to work there?

[JustPiper]

or conscience, or morals, or viewers

And boy you can see that in his interview with CSpan from yesterday!

[JustPiper]

Hope this link still works in case you missed the moron lying live:

link

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I missed it. Oh well.

[boomop1]

Arrogant souless bastard, bill clinton twin, he should be in the deck of wanted.

[shteebo]

"We have our own measurements for winning"...oh yeah, right, you're not losing. It's that flawed ratings system. Denial...the first stage of grief.

[Cincinatus]

"In any event," said Thompson, "this raises our antennae that news organizations do know things that they just don't tell us."

Yeah, like for instance, Juanita Broaddrick.

[AndyJackson]

"Jordan exposed something that opened him and CNN up to all kinds of objections and ridicule,"

I heard Jordan interviewed on either CSPAN or ABC radio (the funny thing is that it really doesn't matter which, both being such tools of the sadam lovers). He really impressed me with his craven spinelessness when he attempted to defend himself. Deep in his shriveled up soul, he is an appeaser, pure and simple. He believes that silence is an appropriate response to evil, in the hope that things will not get worse, and he places himself and a few potential victims he does know above millions of defenseless victims he does not know. He does not understand anything about looking evil square in the face and, with god's grace and blessing, fighting it. The concept is compeletely foreign to his makeup. I am convinced that in making a public statement he was not seeking forgiveness with the invocation to go and sin no more. He was simply hoping to wash the slate clean of the now too obvious sins that CNN had committed and sin a lot more. He is not slightly better than the other journalists. He is two degrees worse, if that is possible.

[Caipirabob]

"Good work there, Eason. Yep, we'll honor our contract. CNN will now be the only source of news in hell.

...Someday we may even get some TV's...."

[machman]

Yeah, at CNN, they don't do it for the ratings or the money, but for the glory of Saddam. hehe.

[Beck_isright]

"CNN's Eason Jordan has no apologies"

Remember the liberal golden rules:

1. If you're at fault blame a conservative.

2. If you can't blame a conservative directly, lie.

3. If you get caught in your lie, go back to number 1.

[wgeorge2001]

" He really impressed me with his craven spinelessness when he attempted to defend himself. Deep in his shriveled up soul, he is an appeaser, pure and simple. He believes that silence is an appropriate response to evil, in the hope that things will not get worse, and he places himself and a few potential victims he does know above millions of defenseless victims he does not know."


Bravo, bravo, well said. The shriveled up soul of appeasers is rooted in the acceptance of evil as an appropiate response to evil. The French and many other nations and American liberals do the same; much to the detriment of our hard won constitutional liberties.
They bend their knee to Satan, the father of lies.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

March 18, 2003 Networks bracing for war CNN said four staffers remained in Baghdad, including reporters Nic Robertson and Rym Brahimi and producer Ingrid Formanek. Robertson and Formanek -- who was portrayed in HBO's "Live From Baghdad" film -- were stationed in Baghdad when the United States airbombed the city Jan. 16, 1991, to start the Gulf War. CNN did remove two less experienced people reporting for its CNN en Espanol network, a spokesman said.

Asked if it expects to stay in Baghdad, a CNN spokesman said, "The regime has been very, very tough on us in the last several months, and last year they kicked us out."

CNN also said Monday in a staff memo from Eason Jordan, the network's chief newsgathering executive, that it would team up with the New York Times and the Boston Globe on war coverage, with the print reporters working with CNN networks on breaking news and "postpublication exclusive reporting from the region and Washington and New York."

[PGalt]

Well stated.

[IronJack]

Of course not. Being a liberal means never having [the guts] to say you're sorry.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

CNN's Eason Jordan has no apologies

liberals never do only excuses

[JustPiper]

I missed it. Oh well.

C's Wife, you can still catch the video of it at CSpan I'm sure, just check out their video library.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

* And not, above all, for writing an op-ed in the New York Times on April 11 to explain his point of view. The editorial has sparked a huge controversy.

Media experts were impressed -- if, perhaps, bewildered -- by Jordan's chutzpah during an era when most media executives hide as much sensitive news as possible.

"This was a suicidal editorial," marveled Robert Thompson, the director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University's Newhouse School.

"Jordan exposed something that opened him and CNN up to all kinds of objections and ridicule," Thompson said. "It was a very difficult decision."

It has to be said that Jordan was actually honest in admitting that CNN pays for its access to places where the writ of the First Amendment does not (yet) run.

The conceit that such payment, and the coin in which it is made, is acceptable is, OTOH, absurd on its face. The upshot is that CNN tells a half-truth--the worst things which happen in America, bark on, contrasted with the best face any tyrant chooses to put on his depradations.

Republican "mind-numbed robots" see through that but Democrats cannot, or do not choose to, do so.