Posted on 02/11/2005 3:37:13 PM PST by BCrago66
Edited on 02/11/2005 3:48:56 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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
The Instalanche will begin momentarily.
Wow, on a Friday evening? Who could have predicted that? /sarcasm
It got worse, if you were able to listen. He was wondering how guys who could seem so nice could be trained killers. I hope they never let him near another military installation.
His own words will come back to haunt him
Ole Harry talks out of both sides of his mouth
His producer needs to let him know.
Someone needs to call him with the news *L*
Taken from the hides of carrots and potatoes....
Chrissy has already soiled himself I'm sure....
Love the Corner...it's must reading. Check it out.
Who would ever have believed even a few years ago that the internet could bring down a flaming Democrat like Rather, and a long-time top executive of CNN (Clinton National News)?
Excerpts:
" "Mr. Jordan emphatically does not believe that the U.S. military intended to kill journalists and believes these accidents to be cases of 'mistaken identity,"' a CNN statement said.
A CNN spokesman added, "Unfortunately, he was not clear enough in explaining his assertion."
The network said that Jordan, an advocate for protections for journalists overseas, had responded to a comment that the 63 journalists killed in Iraq were collateral damage. CNN said that most of the journalists were killed by anti-U.S. forces but that the Pentagon has acknowledged killing some journalists accidentally.
But one witness at Davos, Florida businessman Rony Abovitz, said he was shocked by Jordan's initial claim and asked him to prove it.
"I was quite surprised, especially by his passion for what he was saying," said Abovitz, who wrote an entry detailing Jordan's comments on a blog from the World Economic Forum that was later picked up by others. "I thought that this was a huge story, very damning to the U.S. if true."
Abovitz said that others in the room, including Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., joined in the debate, which became heated before being broken off. But Abovitz, who co-founded a medical technology company in Hollywood, Fla., said that he felt impelled to blog it after realizing that others weren't going to report on it.
Abovitz, who has been deluged by requests for interviews, said both the right and the left have used this as a way of moving forward their agendas. He said that wasn't his intention.
"My real interest is in this concept of transparency, accountability and objective fairness in media," Abovitz said. "These were values discussed at the WEF, and right in front of my eyes they were being put to a serious test."
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Go PowerLine .. Help spread the news!
That is just so old media... Hugh should know better than to broadcast without one eye on FR...
It's hit the Associated Press. This is 1st non-Dow Jones story I've seen:
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/entertainment/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-4/110816647157460.xml&storylist=entertainment
Just a 1-liner so far.
Hugh is talking about Eason Jordan now, but not the resignation. I emailed him but he is on location so he may not have access to email.
You got that right!
Yes, that's got to be made public or else this will be merely a quick shuffle of personnel and CNN and the LSM will go on just as before.... we've got to tar and feather him and put him on display in the village stocks, not let him slink out of town on a Friday night.......
LOL! Guess it isn't only me he's pissed off....
Hey give Kerry credit he said he was there giving arms to the enemy.
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