Eason Jordan quits!

Muahahahaha! I knew this was a significant story when I heard about it
http://suicidegirls.com/boards/Current+Events/63142/
Happiness is seeing the media elite answer for their bullshit

CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits

2 hours, 23 minutes ago

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

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 (news - web sites).

Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.

During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (news - web sites) 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&u=/ap/20050211/ap_en_tv/tv_cnn_jordan_2&printer=1

Okay, hopefully the rest of them will all follow suit and quit soon too.

I'm sure a CNN journalist did say that US soliders were sniping reporters stockula, and the dirty bastards deserved it.

You find it hard to believe a top executive at CNN would charge that the US military targets journalists, in front of an anti-American audience?

So what was going through Eason Jordan's head when he decided to quit? "Gee, some bloggers, two members of Congress, and David Gergen lied about what I said at Davos, so I better quit in order to make sure CNN isn't associated with me."

This story was ignored, and Jordan quit, precisely because it was true.



[Edited on Feb 11, 2005 by stockula]

now if only the rest of the country had to answer for their bullshit, we'd be in business.

shouldn't you be kicking it with jeff gannon right now stock?

Yeah props to Dailykos et al for taking down a self-employed internet journalist no one has heard of who had the temerity to suck up to the president. Quite a feather in your cap.


[Edited on Feb 12, 2005 by stockula]

As I posted in this thread it's not like Jordan is some kind of conspiracy nut making wild accusations. It is certainly possible that the US is targeting journalists - that's the big story. Some news executive agreeing with what a group representing 500,000 journalists says isn't exactly earthshattering, whatever conservatives say. I think the fact that someone got into the white house under an assumed name and was shown an secret memo exposing a CIA agent is MUCH bigger news.



[Edited on Feb 12, 2005 by mightytoaster]

[Edited on Feb 12, 2005 by mightytoaster]

OK, take everything you know about the United States and its military. Does intentionally killing journalists sound like something we would actually make as a policy? As Ann Coulter lamented, "If only this were true." What would the fallout be if we were caught? What advantage would we gain by intentionally hunting down journalists? It just doesn't make sense, and these charges didn't stem from facts. If they did, let's see the evidence and proof. If this is just conjecture on Jordan's part, the guy is deranged. And so are you, if you believe him.

Gannon used his real name for getting a White House press pass. He wrote under an assumed name? So what? Natalie Portman's been making movies under an assumed name for years. She's not a journalist? Geraldo Rivera and Larry King don't use their real names either.




[Edited on Feb 12, 2005 by stockula]

Well, what with the whole exploding cigars and falling out beards stuff I wouldn't be *that* suprised.

The BBC are covering his quitting too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4259469.stm

This "journalist" attended a two-day, $50 journalism "school," set up shop on the internet and days later is in White House press briefings (unheard of), is being given confidential documents regarding the identity of CIA operatives, being called on to asked the President loaded, softball questions while veteran White House correspondants are dismissed as national security threats, but unknown, rookie journalists working under pseudonyms and shady backgrounds aparently are not. But this isn't significant, I suppose.

And stock, quoting Ann Coulter doesn't buy you credibility in anyone's eyes.