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Jordan should have shut down the Baghdad Bureau of CNN and gotten out. He stayed while covering up for Hussein. He's complicit. He should never work in journalism again.

That wasn't a decision for him alone to make unless he owned CNN. If you are going to blame Jordan, you should also blame other reporters from different news organization. He wasn't the only one who knew.

Obviously, other news organizations were in the same bind we were when it came to reporting on their own workers.
We also had to worry that our reporting might endanger Iraqis not on our payroll. I knew that CNN could not report that Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Uday, told me in 1995 that he intended to assassinate two of his brothers-in-law who had defected and also the man giving them asylum, King Hussein of Jordan. If we had gone with the story, I was sure he would have responded by killing the Iraqi translator who was the only other participant in the meeting. After all, secret police thugs brutalized even senior officials of the Information Ministry, just to keep them in line (one such official has long been missing all his fingernails).
Still, I felt I had a moral obligation to warn Jordan's monarch, and I did so the next day. King Hussein dismissed the threat as a madman's rant. A few months later Uday lured the brothers-in-law back to Baghdad; they were soon killed

He did alert King Hussein.

Very true, CNN needs a wall-to-wall housecleaning. These people need to be publicly shamed and shunned.

What baloney. If other news agencies were in the same boat, he should name them. He can't because there aren't any.

CNN gets exclusive rights to these dictatorships by providing them a full hour of propaganda on the World News hour. In exchange for unedited news stories from the country's own news agencies, and reported by local reporters, CNN is permitted exclusive access to that country.

What is the only news outlet permitted to have a reporter in Cuba? CNN. And the reason is the Castro-loving hispanic CNN reporter who never reports a single negative thing about Castro.

Jordan is a liar and the blood of many innocents is on his hands and the hands of everyone at Ted Turner's abomination.

That wasn't a decision for him alone to make unless he owned CNN.

He almost does.

"Eason Jordan is the chief news executive and newsgathering president for the CNN News Group. In this capacity, he oversees CNN's worldwide news coverage, the network's editorial policy and direction, CNN's Satellites and Circuits department and CNN Newsource's affiliate news-feed service, which is distributed to approximately 900 broadcasters worldwide. He also contributes to CNN's strategic planning as a member of the CNN Executive Committee. Jordan is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta..." more Eason bio

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