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| CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits |
| 2005-02-11 |
| 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. 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. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #11 Score one for the good guys. |
| Posted by: Infidel Bob 2005-02-11 11:02:35 PM |
| #10 I'm shocked, frankly. I thought he could deny, deny, deny forever and get away with it. Yeah, it's a strange feeling seeing good news. Ever since Rathergate broke, it's been a new day. It's rather nice, seeing the good guys win. These are the kind of events in which we used to get beaten badly due to the media's control of how to frame the situation. Now that they're subject to a small portion of the scrutiny they focus on others, we're seeing the man behind the curtain. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-02-11 10:58:14 PM |
| #9 Perhaps not an apology, but a mea culpa. "I lied. I'm sorry." |
| Posted by: Dishman 2005-02-11 10:01:50 PM |
| #8 I don't agree w/the prof that if Eason came out an apologized right away it would be OK - since he's made that allegation before. Does he believe it???? Davros will be interesting next year, will they or won't they tape??? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-02-11 9:35:44 PM |
| #7 Here's the CNN story. You may have trouble finding it as it is under the Entertainment category. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-11 9:18:58 PM |
| #6 That tape must be almost incriminating if he resigned this quickly. Congratulations to the bloggers who made this happen. The pressure to release the tape should not stop. This is a major league MSM cover-up. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-11 9:14:25 PM |
| #5 Gee, and it was announced on a Friday afternoon. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-02-11 9:13:03 PM |
| #4 Not that I'm counting or anything but: Andrew Gilligan, BBC Howell Raines, New York Times Dan Rather, CBS Eason Jordan, CNN Don't mess with Texas, and for your family's sake, get your BDS treated early, before it's too late! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-02-11 8:52:46 PM |
| #3 First Lynne Stewart, now Eason Jordan. It's been a pretty good week. |
| Posted by: Mark Z. 2005-02-11 8:50:42 PM |
| #2 A closed mouth gathers no foot. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-02-11 8:31:24 PM |
| #1 Ah-ha! I guess it just goes to show that when the US military targets you, your stuff is weak. At least he now has proof for his best selling expose , "America's Fascist Military and the Fascist Fascists Who Lead Them". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-02-11 8:26:29 PM |