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

[humblegunner]

THat is truly nasty and not cool

I agree! All those mean foxes are climbing up the wall to bite the kitty!

[MEG33]

Why?

[STOCKHRSE]

'After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort ....'

He,hehehehe......Don't ya just love the new way controversy is settled? The worm has turned!

Ray

[chiller]

There is some thought that Barney Frank wasn't outraged by Eason's unsubstantiated charge, but may have smelled W's blood.
I'm looking for some of the first stories.

[nicmarlo]

My intent isn't to pop our balloons, but, actually, this time, credit is due the blogger, Rony Abovitz, who attended the gathering/stood up and asked Eason to confirm his accusations and posted his account online and to those others who kept the heat on....Michelle Malkin wrote about the full episode here (and no FReepers were mentioned as having anything to do with Eason's demise)....unless Rony Abovitz is a FReeper, of course:

EASONGATE: A RETROSPECTIVE (Standout Bloggers On The Story!!)

All in all, I think it's a great accomplishment that FReepers and bloggers are having the combined effect of taking out the MSM, one by one.

[TheDon]

If CNN believed in full disclosure they would.

[CT]

I think there is one MSMer, in particular that has lost a lot of credibility - Howard Kurtz.

Kurtz, a center-left fact-checker and writer of things MSM, did a very poor job in covering this story. Perhaps because he also worked for CNN, but also perhaps becuase the media protects its own.

But given the fact that a guy in Kurtz' position failed to cover this story adequately, and did so almost sheepishly, means to me at least, he needs to seek work doing something else.

Call it collateral damage.

[nicmarlo]

given the fact that a guy in Kurtz' position failed to cover this story adequately, and did so almost sheepishly, means to me at least, he needs to seek work doing something else.

Especially since he touts himself as one who "scrutinizes the media's fairness and objectivity."

[nicmarlo]

Here's an interesting article, condemning Kurtz (and the media), which states, in part:

A deafening silence

......Journalists who got their panties twisted over General Mattis apparently see nothing newsworthy about having the head of news for CNN accuse the U.S. military of deliberately killing journalists.

CNN's Eason Jordan told a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that "he knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), who was there, and demanded proof, which Mr. Jordan could not supply.

The Davos confab ended Jan. 30. Many journalists were there. Yet in a column published Feb. 5, I became the first "mainstream" journalist to mention Mr. Jordan's remarks.

The silence is puzzling. If what Mr. Jordan said were true, it would be a bigger scandal than Abu Ghraib, about which we in the media have made sure you have heard. And if CNN's top news executive slandered U.S. troops, that also is - or ought to be - news.

Washington Post media analyst Howard Kurtz finally wrote something on Feb. 7. Mr. Kurtz omitted eyewitness testimony from Mr. Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn); reported panel moderator David Gergen as saying something quite different from what he told columnist Michelle Malkin, and skipped over suppression of a videotape of the discussion.

Mr. Kurtz also failed to mention he has a show on CNN. "If a PR agent or damage control spinner produced a piece designed to try and save CNN exec Eason Jordan's job, it would be the piece Kurtz wrote," said web logger and former Democratic political operative Mickey Kaus.

It goes without saying that CNN has yet to report on the controversy. ABC, CBS, and NBC have so far ignored it, too.....

[demkicker]

Great research on Chris Crammer, Jordon's likely replacement. Looks like we need to pre-empt their replacement announcement by throwing down the gauntlett, IOW, bombarding them with, "You better not".

[Uncle Vlad]

Was I the only one who read the headline, "Eason Jordan Just Resigned" and thought Doo-ah, doo-dah?

[Kay]

Sorry to disagree but I love Drudge & remain faithful to him. If it wasn't for Drudge, I never -- not ever -- would have found FreeRepublic. I'm not an internet surfer.

[McGavin999]

Well, if he had been serious, he would have been running reports on the abuse non-stop from the time of the invasion. We would have seen reports on CNN of the torture chambers, the mass graves, etc. The fact that even after Saddam was deposed, CNN still is not telling the story means that there was some other reason for Jordan keeping quiet about what happened there. I'd say money is a good bet.

[Kay]

Hi there. Could you tell me how to find Hugh Hewitt's stuff -- eg. his radio show & his website?

I've read rave reviews here at FR but haven't experienced Hugh yet.

Gracias.

[aculeus]

My intent isn't to pop our balloons, but, actually, this time, credit is due the blogger, Rony Abovitz,

All credit to RA. He stood up to power.

[nicmarlo]

All credit to RA. He stood up to power.

He certainly did, and admirably so. Absolutely incredible, really, what one person with courage can do.

[Erasmus]

Was I the only one who read the headline, "Eason Jordan Just Resigned" and thought Doo-ah, doo-dah?

Yes, you're the only one. < ]B^)

Eason Jordan just resigned
Doo-dah, doo-dah
Eason Jordan just resigned
Oh, doo-dah-day.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

go here

http://hughhewitt.com/

[freebilly]

Sorry to disagree but I love Drudge & remain faithful to him

Love Drudge and you'll get a virus....

[Osage Orange]

I'd say money is a good bet.

Add " and politics"...and I'm with ya.