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
How many more buffalo must be picked from the MSM herd before they wake up and realize they are facing extinction?"
At least Howard Hughes had the grace to become a recluse. Would that turner had any grace at all.
Sounds principled and admirable. The only problem is, if he had any principles of the sort indicated in this resignation he would have resigned after it became clear that he allowed CNN to carry water for Saddam in exchange for keeping a branch office of CNN open in Bagdad.
Keep in mind .. these are the same loons who pushed the Ohio Election Fraud BS and encourage Barbara Boxer to take a stand against the President in Congress
Excellent point the captain makes!
Actually i doubt it I think Ted Turner think himself get this
Rhett Butler
I am serious LOL!
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RATHER Gone.
JORDAN Gone.
And yet, Los Angeles Times LIBERAL Media Critic DAVID SHAW still insists on telling us that:
RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts
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YIPPEE!
You just made my day! I got a BIG smile on my face.
Well, I do know one thing--You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd....
Crossing The Jordan: What Comes Next After Eason Gets Eased Out?
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
Now that CNN has solved its Eason Jordan problem, at least for the moment, the next question we must ask is who takes his place. One of the candidates for Jordan's job, especially considering the importance of its international service, has to be Chris Cramer, currently president of CNN International. Jordan lured Cramer away from the BBC several years ago, and judging from Cramer's public statements, a shared revulsion of Western militaries formed part of the mutual attraction. Cramer may receive less scrutiny than Jordan, but his track record looks remarkably similar.
Several instances appear in my CNN category. For instance, Cramer gave this speech to the International News Safety Institute in November 2003, recommending in emotional terms a book by Nik Gowing called Dying To Tell The Story, a book which alleges a deliberate policy of assassinating journalists by the US military as a means of removing accountability from the battlefield. Cramer said this:
I want to commend to you the very sad, very traumatic and very important book which INSI has backed from the start.
It’s a first of its kind.
A detailed tribute to each and every one of our colleagues who died or went missing.
Important contributions from the freelance community.
From the security industry.
From Nik Gowing on the worrying trend of journalists who died at the hands of the coalition - in the crossfire - through screw ups - however you want to portray it.
"However you want to portray it" appears to be Cramer's motto for news management. Last September, in an interview with Businessworld India, Cramer continued his strange and completely unsupported allegations:
But the profession is in trouble. Around the world, there is scepticism about journalists. Some even want them killed. This year more than 60 journalists have died in Iraq and we are just into August. ...
There is no alchemy involved in accessing news. People can find it themselves. So what you offer them is your version. Plus, the Hutton Enquiry and some incidents in the US show bad journalism. So trust is down.
Cramer has a long and strange relationship with the British military as well. In 1980, a group of purportedly Iranian terrorists took over the Iranian embassy in London, capturing 23 hostages -- including BBC reporter Chris Cramer and his partner, soundman Sim Harris. Cramer faked a heart attack to get the terrorists to throw him out of the embassy the next day, but five days later the terrorists killed one of the remaining hostages. After the British commando team SAS debriefed Cramer, they stormed the embassy and killed all but one of the terrorists while saving 19 of the remaining 21 hostages. Operation Nimrod is widely considered one of the most successful counterterrorism operations in recent history.
Instead of being grateful for the SAS rescuing his partner -- who pointed out the sixth terrorist to the SAS as the Iranian/Iraqi attempted to hide among the freed hostages -- Cramer described the SAS in terms that sounds unsettlingly familiar to those who monitor radical leftists:
And I was released after 27 hours into the hands of the Metropolitan Police in London and two days later into a dreadful bunch of terrorists called the SAS, who were probably worse than the terrorists inside the Iranian embassy.
And four and a half days later, Maggie Thatcher, in one of her rare moments of triumph, deployed the SAS in broad daylight to storm the embassy and they rescued all but maybe one or two of the hostages. Two were murdered. The SAS conveniently took out five members of the terrorist group and forgot to take out the sixth. So that was my brief, humbling experience
Chris Cramer has just as much antipathy towards Western military organizations as Eason Jordan, and his public statements also show the same lack of restraint and substantiation as the erstwhile news chief. If CNN selects Cramer to succeed Jordan as president, then we have gained nothing. CNN needs to clean house at the highest levels and ask Cramer to follow Jordan out of CNN's executive offices.
We will watch their next move. We will not allow yet another serial slanderer to take charge of a major news organization without setting the record straight.
Dang straight. The general public needs to see what kind of Looney Tunes are running major MSM outlets these days.
Oh, and thoughtomator old chum--Go et some smooth kills on those Cylons for me.
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You are not kidding, Mr. Silverback. Now it would be nice if Chris Cramer, managing editor of CNNi, would resign. He is another slithering cowardly worm!
Here is the URL and the commentary on War Blog, February 9.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16947
It was originally published in www.captainsquartersblog.com @ http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/
LONG HISTORY OF HOSTILITY TOWARDS MILITARY BY CNN EXECUTIVE
Chris Cramer, managing editor of CNN's International news division and a chief lieutenant of Eason Jordan, has made similar allegations about the military targeting journalists as his boss, as outlined here earlier and on Slublog. Alert CQ reader David D remembered Cramer from a famous hostage-rescue case in London in 1980, and pointed the way to other inflammatory comments Cramer made towards the men who rescued the hostages.
On April 11, 1980, six armed Iranians opposed to the rule of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini invaded the Iranian embassy in London, taking everyone inside hostage for a six-day siege. Two of the hostages were BBC reporter Chris Cramer and his partner and soundman, Sim Harris:
The hostages were mainly Iranian embassy staff, but also included a number of tourists and two BBC employees - journalist Chris Cramer and sound recordist Sim Harris - who had stopped by to pick up visas.
Later that day Mr Cramer telexed a shopping list of demands to the police from inside the embassy. ... If their demands were not met the gunmen threatened to execute all the hostages and blow up the embassy.
The British activated the Special Air Service (SAS), their commando unit that had been under the budget knife to that point, in an attempt to free the hostages. For the first five days, the SAS planned but remained on standby while British negotiators tried to get the terrorists to surrender. Unfortunately, on the sixth day, the terrorists lost patience and killed an Iranian hostage, an embassy staffer and supporter of Khomeini. After the terrorists pushed the body out a window, the Brits sent in the SAS, which took the embassy back in 15 minutes, killing all but one of the terrorists and saving all but two of the 21 hostages.
Operation Nimrod, as it was designated, became widely hailed as one of the SAS' most successful operations. The SAS earned a reputation as one of the world's best counter-terrorist units and the British still point to Nimrod with pride to this day. Well, most of the British do. Cramer, who got released after the first day by faking a heart attack (on his own admission) and leaving behind his partner, doesn't think too much of the men who eventually rescued Sim Harris and the other 18 hostages. Here's what Cramer told a seminar of media editors for the Crimes of War Project in 2002 (emphases and break points mine):
I won't roll out the victim syndrome for you at all -- well, maybe I will for two or three minutes. My own humbling experience was 20 years ago last week. Not, of course, as I remember it. It was actually last Wednesday at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Not, of course, that I remember it because it has no affect on me. Tomorrow I fly to London for a reunion, the first in 20 years. And I'll come back to you and let you know how that feels next year, if you like.
My experience was very brief. I was stupid enough to apply for a visa inside the Iranian Embassy in London in April 1980. I was stupid enough to be there when Iraqi terrorists stormed it. I was there for a very, very short time. I was there for precisely 28 hours. Not that I remember it, because I'm a member of your profession. We don't do PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder].
I was fortunate enough to have a slightly troubling stomach condition, having been in Zimbabwe, which manifested itself in a very short space of time. It's a most incredible heart attack. And I do fantastic heart attacks. I do great heart attacks. So convincing with my heart attack that the people there were embarrassed and threw me out.
And I was released after 27 hours into the hands of the Metropolitan Police in London and two days later into a dreadful bunch of terrorists called the SAS, who were probably worse than the terrorists inside the Iranian embassy.
And four and a half days later, Maggie Thatcher, in one of her rare moments of triumph, deployed the SAS in broad daylight to storm the embassy and they rescued all but maybe one or two of the hostages. Two were murdered. The SAS conveniently took out five members of the terrorist group and forgot to take out the sixth. So that was my brief, humbling experience.
So Chris Cramer, president of CNN International and a former hostage of terrorists himself, appears to have gotten a lifetime case of Stockholm Syndrome from the experience. He considers British commandos to be terrorists -- actually, worse than terrorists, because they freed people from the clutches of murderous thugs. Had Cramer not faked a heart attack, of course, he would have owed his life to the SAS, but apparently his sympathies lie with the gunmen who caused him all of his PTSD.
Now the man who considers these British commandos to be worse than terrorists says much the same thing about the American military -- and CNN put him in charge of its international news coverage, including everything we and the world see coming from such places as Iraq and Afghanistan. No wonder Eason Jordan hired him to run CNNi. With his twisted sense of judgment and his sympathetic ear for conspiracy theories, he seems a perfect fit for the CNN chief who likes to make up wild accusations overseas about the American and Israeli military.
These are the people who have given us the news for the past several years on CNN. Now you understand the origins of the bias that you see in their "version" of the news. CNN has a lot of housecleaning to do, and firing Jordan won't be enough to restore their credibility. Chris Cramer has to go.
At the dentist's office today, picked up the latest issue of Time. They had a little interview with the guy who Rather interviewed for the Big Tobacco racketeering story. He described their story checking back when they worked with him as "picayune." He said they went over every detail with him a dozen times.
Two differences between then and now:
1. The President was unlikely to sue, but if they accidentally libeled the tobacco companies, they would have been sued until Dan was wearing a barrel on the nightly newscast.
2. Dan Rather (and more to the point, Mary Mapes) wanted to prove Dubya missed some drills 30 years ago more than he ever wanted to prove that tobacco companies were in a conspiracy to kill their customers. Heck Mapes worked on the AWOL story for five years, and the Manhattan Project took 3 years!
Well, we can settle this pretty dang quickly, Easie; you can clear it up by asking them to
I agree fully but unfortunately I don't think we are ever going to get to see that tape.
Well, he's the one claiming "conflicting accounts."
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Thank you for your CLARITY, Mr. S.
Ain't the Internet & Freerepublic grand..?
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I know but the MSM I will do anything to cover Jordan's butt. They don't want to prove to the world that we were right.
OMG CNN is glutton of punishment
They are seriously want this guy
OMG Freepers start your blogging NOW LOL!
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