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2005-02-12 Home Front: Culture Wars
CNN's Chief News Exec Resigns Amid Furor
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Posted by Sherry 2005-02-12 12:18:24 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Wow. That was fast.

But if you think the MSM was out to get blogs before, look out...
Posted by someone 2005-02-12 2:06:33 AM||   2005-02-12 2:06:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Conflicting accounts? Even the liberal Democrats present say he said what was alleged. There is no conflict. Hasta la vista baby.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-12 2:33:37 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-02-12 2:33:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 But if you think the MSM was out to get blogs before, look out...


The first shots were fired a few days ago...in Maryland, a staffer for Republican governor Ehrlich had to resign after he got caught on Free Republic smearing Ehrlich's likely Democratic opponent, Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley. There was a bit of a blog hit piece in WaPo yesterday...
Posted by Seafarious  2005-02-12 3:03:59 AM||   2005-02-12 3:03:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The days of unchallenged MSM bias are so over....and it feels gooood....
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-12 4:25:19 AM||   2005-02-12 4:25:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 And his replacement will be equally insane, but much more careful about memos, speeches, and interviews. CNN is still screwed, heh.
Posted by .com 2005-02-12 4:50:58 AM||   2005-02-12 4:50:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 If Barney Frank of all people was giving him crap about it, then its no wonder the video never turned up, his remarks were truly uncalled for. Its always a source of wonder these media elites think regular people share their views about how evil and underhanded the military is.
They are just kids doing what those people are to chickenshit to.
Seeya asswipe!
Posted by JerseyMike 2005-02-12 7:25:32 AM||   2005-02-12 7:25:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 waho! NOW THIS IS NEWS!
Posted by 2b 2005-02-12 9:26:05 AM||   2005-02-12 9:26:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 It's long past time for the influence wielded by the fifth estate to be matched by accountability.
Posted by gromgorru  2005-02-12 9:29:20 AM||   2005-02-12 9:29:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Pretty obvious what was in the video. Wonder if the audio includes the sounds of catcalls (in American-accented English) and kudos (in arab-accented English)...
Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-02-12 10:12:23 AM||   2005-02-12 10:12:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's the Washing Post's account from Howard Kurtz (reg required, I blogged on it if you don't want to register).

I'm left to wonder if Howard's lateness in mentioning anything about this had to do with his also having a show on CNN.
Posted by eLarson 2005-02-12 10:21:45 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2005-02-12 10:21:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 The accompanying graphics just get better and better. Excellent work, whoever you are that does that.
Posted by Captain Pedantic 2005-02-12 10:47:58 AM||   2005-02-12 10:47:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 It's Fred, the owner/operator of this beautiful rig.
Posted by Tom 2005-02-12 10:49:39 AM||   2005-02-12 10:49:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Here is a quote made my E. Jordan from the same article, that Fox left out.

""I have devoted my professional life to saving Saddam 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.

I put this in the category of: "Whatever you are smoking, I want some." BTW, Enjoy the link!!
Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-02-12 12:02:21 PM||   2005-02-12 12:02:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I think the real story here is that mainstream advertisers (who pay the bills) want their ads seen by mainstream folks, not by viewers whose tin foil hats are on too tight. Jordan got the boot because he was bad for business.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-02-12 12:02:59 PM||   2005-02-12 12:02:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 The only thing that worries me about this is what might happen when someone says something that the bloggers don't like, and they go after him and hound him until he's forced to give up - when perhaps his fate was not actually deserved.

Jordan deserved what he got, no question about it. But this, along with a number of other incidents in the past year, helps to illustrate the growing power of blogs. I just hope bloggers continue to use their power responsibly.
Posted by The Doctor 2005-02-12 12:36:39 PM||   2005-02-12 12:36:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Doubt that will happen Doc,we've alredy been called"pajamahadin"among other things.They thought it was an insult,but bloggers took it as a compliment.After all it was pajamahadin that braught down Dan Rather and John Kerry.
Posted by raptor 2005-02-12 2:29:52 PM||   2005-02-12 2:29:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Doc, it actually wasn't the statement, rather the cover up in MSM that did their boy in. Had he step forward when this first popped up and said "Me Bad" and apologized for slandering the men and women serving honorably, this would have blown over.
Posted by Floting Shang5398 2005-02-12 3:41:14 PM||   2005-02-12 3:41:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Jordan got the boot because he was bad for business. He sure did, but then its dawning on the MSM that this whole Leftist PC Agitprop schtick is bad for business when there are alternatives. The model only works when you have a monopoly
Posted by phil_b 2005-02-12 3:44:43 PM||   2005-02-12 3:44:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Oh, I understand perfectly - and as I said, I think what happened was what should have. I'm just expressing a little concern for the future, that's all.

And I suppose I'm worried about what might happen if a bunch of wild-eyed liberals decide to go after a decent man just because they hate him. I don't see it happening now, but I wouldn't put any unscrupulous tactic past the left, not these days.
Posted by The Doctor 2005-02-12 4:40:33 PM||   2005-02-12 4:40:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 And I suppose I'm worried about what might happen if a bunch of wild-eyed liberals decide to go after a decent man just because they hate him. I don't see it happening now, but I wouldn't put any unscrupulous tactic past the left, not these days.

er.....do the names Bork, Bush, Gonzalez, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld...mean anything to you?
Posted by Frank G  2005-02-12 4:48:32 PM||   2005-02-12 4:48:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Doc, it aint he bloggers that are bringing down the MSM, it's their own words and actions brought to light. Everyone believed the (un)Guard story, until the story behind the story was told. Everyone jumped onthe weapons cache, sroey until the real story was told. Chief Pouting Bull was not put down by some blogger, he wrote his own article that was simply shown in the light of day. And no Eason Jordan was called for comments HE made (not soembodies writing about him) and he couldn't lie because of the hoards of witnesses. If you want to see abusive blogging, look to the many LLL site (du, indy, etc).
Posted by Glising Thater5397 2005-02-12 6:03:13 PM||   2005-02-12 6:03:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Jordan got the boot because he was bad for business

Maybe, but I'm not so sure the blogosphere has achieved quite the coup that some are celebrating. Jordan had already been eased out of day to day control of news ... this was just the straw that broke his contract's back with the Time Warner biggies.

Frank, I do indeed recognize those names. But you know what? They were all very public figures when they were attacked. I have serious concerns about bloggers who take a high profile without being, say, a tenured academic or a lawyer. You can be right and still lose your house trying to defend against a lawsuit.
Posted by too true 2005-02-12 7:52:46 PM||   2005-02-12 7:52:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 not buying it - there's cranks everywhere and readership is a good measure of having tour geet on the ground (DU excepted)
Posted by Frank G  2005-02-12 8:07:49 PM||   2005-02-12 8:07:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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