Eason Jordan Resigns
The Associated Press is reporting:
NEW YORK - CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq
In case you missed the story (and it wasn't hard to, as the mainstream media chose not to report it) in a speech last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Eason Jordan, a CNN new executive, accused the American military of purposely targeting and killing journalists in Iraq. He had no evidence to support his claims, and ever since making them he has been backtracking, saying that his statements were misunderstood or taken out of context. Yet, he continuously refused to release a transcript of those remarks, a transcript that should have very easily cleared everything up.
Predictably, in stepping down, Jordan says that he has been "unfairly tarnished" by the reports, yet he still refuses to release the transcript. Gee, I wonder why.
Congrats to the folks over at Easongate.com and the many other bloggers who refused to let this story slip away. The blogosphere is proving time and time again that the days of big media controlling access to "newsworthy" information are over.
Posted by jkhat at February 11, 2005 07:14 PM
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| # March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM Converted_Comment | |
Note that the timing of this is very convenient too. It breaks on a Friday after the evening news, so, at this point, if the networks cover it at all, it'll be over a weekend. |
| # March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM Converted_Comment | |
To paraphrase Jim Geraghty, who was paraphrasing Instapundit: Guess now we don't need to see that tape to know what's on it. Congrats to everyone who wouldn't let this go. James is right...the days when a media honcho can hide behind willing accomplices in the MSM are waning fast. And I can't say those days will be missed. |
| # March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM Converted_Comment | |
Kris is right about CNN's timing of this story. Remember Rathergate. It was conventional wisdom back in December that CBS would wait until late some Friday afternoon to release its Thornburgh report. We all waited from one Friday to the next to get the report. But to everyone's surprise CBS released the report on Monday January 10. Perhaps CBS was heartened by Thornburgh's (irresponsible) refusal to conclude that the documents were forged or that CBS was biased. So maybe CBS decided they didn't need to wait until Friday. They decided wrongly however. |