"They don't base this stuff on ratings, do they"The actual tape must be really really bad for him to give up this early.
I still want to see the tape.
Isn't that special- Church Lady..
So long easy. Take it eason. Hehehe
Another MSM pelt to hang in the den!
Another one bites the dust!!!
hey Kos, we are over here now....
enjoy.
Clearly he wasn't misquoted or he would have just clarified it and everyone would have moved on. Since he decided not to, I'd have to assume that what the bloggers reported was true and Eason Jordan is in the business of spreading unsubstantiated lies about the American military.
Makes you wonder what other lies CNN tells their viewers.
Check my blog for ALL the latest information and links:
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"They don't base this stuff on ratings, do they"Ok, so the Right takes out Eason Jordan and Dan Rather, and the LEft gets Jeff Gannon and NCPAC? Not too shabby, in my book ;0)
The message of the FReepers we are refining
We'd gotten Danny Rather and he's still whining
On all their propaganda, the light we're shining
And now even Eason Jordan has been resigning
And I tell you over and over and over again my friend
That the death cage match with FreeRepublic is coming
That the death cage match with FreeRepubic is coming
Welcome to the new media... Fox News in the internet are taking down the American liberal propoganda machine one piece at a time. They don't know what hit them. The elites are finally be held accountable, to a certain extent. It's not just a one way street anymore folks.
Good Riddance! Hope he is blacklisted forever!
Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.
During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted.
He quickly backed off the remarks, explaining that he meant to distinguish between journalists killed because they were in the wrong place where a bomb fell, for example, and those killed because they were shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy.
"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," Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.
But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up. There was an online petition calling on CNN to find a transcript, and fire Jordan if he said the military had intentionally killed journalists.
After several management restructurings at CNN, Jordan actually had no current operational responsibility over network programming. But he was CNN's chief fix-it man overseas, arranging coverage in dangerous or hard-to-reach parts of the world.
"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," Jordan said.
"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," he said.
Jordan joined CNN in 1982 as an assistant assignment editor on the national news desk.
CNN's global newsgathering infrastructure is chiefly the result of Jordan's work, said Jim Walton, chief of the CNN News Group.
AP-ES-02-11-05 1939EST
Still nothing on CNN's web page about this.
HA!
HooRah!!
I'm sure they waited until Friday to make sure everyone would be home to hear the news. Oh wait, they waited to avoid the normal news cycle.
I wonder if the military can sue for libel. They could take CNN out permanently by taking all the cash they have.