EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED (Updated Info)

http://www.nationalreview.com ^ | 2/11/05 | Ramesh Ponnuru

[BCrago66]

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

[ThreeYearLurker]

You can't say scalp, old chap. Us Native American types get upset!

Freegards,

Ward.

[MEG33]

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/02/10/jrd_qust.html
Nice rundown and click on Eason Jordan resigns for full statement.

[missyme]

Wow your in a feisty mood this evening

[MinuteGal]

ODE TO JOY !

Another lib
Another fib
Another blot on CNN
This is the reason
This is the season
For firin' Eason

Away he's creepin'
We did our freepin'
Ta ta, schmuck Eason
You are the reason
We're makin' whoopee !

Leni

[Mo1]

He likely has a job somewhere else like ABC, CBS or NBC. Wait and watch.

Let'em go there

The tape is still out there

[BCrago66]

I didn't scroll down. It's about a 10-line story. Now that Hugh Hewitt has gone to commercial, he should learn the story by the time he comes back...

[Bahbah]

must have sensed something big was going to break.

Those are some instincts you have there. I was just thinking, could it have been yesterday morning, that we were going to get a period of peace, slow news, etc. How WRONG can one be.

[muir_redwoods]

First Jayson, then Dan and now Eason. I tell ya, I don't know what we are going to do.

[jackbill]

I read the Corner every day, all day.

[xJones]

Thank you for #154.

Best regards!

[pharmamom]

No, I want MoDowd to go down in flames.

[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.

[Cableguy]

Here is the headcount so far:

Conservatives: Dan Rather, Eason Jordan
Liberals: Jeff Gannon

We got the heads of two big names, and liberals have someone I didn't know who he was until this week.

[NorCalRepub]

I don't read Drudge either but he still sometimes has flashing news before many......I just use him as a backup for news......

[Dog]

Fyi...

[Timeout]

When will the intrepid CNN dig up the story?! LOL!

[freebilly]

Wow your in a feisty mood this evening

190 lbs of fighting mouth!

[johnb838]

It's a sad day ;)

[MinuteGal]

We erased the Jayson-Eason Line, to be sure.

Leni

[gov_bean_ counter]

was wondering how guys who could seem so nice could be trained killers.

"It was business, Michael. It was never personal."