Larry Kudlow, one of the big brains I’ve talked about before— behind the “Kudlow & Cramer” show on CNBC (I deem them tied for best show on that cable station with Dennis Miller, and those two shows among the best shows on TV), reports with prescience in his latest column—which he wrote before the Eason Jordan story ran its course. That Eason Jordan story reached its epilogue just hours ago, tonight, when he quit in shame. CNN only just reported on it, after I did, which I mention not because I’m brilliant—but that they’re so abominable in their forthrightness.
This week on CNBC’s Kudlow & Cramer I asked three influential U.S. senators about the CNN scandal regarding news executive Eason Jordan. To recap, at last month’s economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan publicly accused the U.S. military of deliberately targeting journalists in order to assassinate them. Senators George Allen, Jeffrey Sessions, and Norman Coleman all agreed with columnist Michelle Malkin’s characterization that Jordan and his CNN defenders have “slimed the military.”
[…] This tawdry tale has been reported, for the most part, only on the blogosphere, again pointing out just how strong this alternative Internet medium has become. The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop. We’ve seen this before, of course. Easongate comes only a few months after Rathergate, the blogosphere-led campaign that ensured the dismissal of producer Mary Mapes from CBS and Dan Rather’s hasty departure.
The blogosphere has gained near immediate influence and credibility with its ability to widely disseminate alternative media coverage. (These days, “alternative” more often than not means “true.”)
[…] The obvious fact is that CNN is trying desperately to make the story go away. This episode merely confirms the institutional anti-military bias of that news organization. If CNN had any patriotic backbone, or even good professional journalistic common sense, it would have, at the very least, suspended Jordan pending a thorough investigation.
Seeing as the blogosphere’s reporting has moved into the upper reaches of the U.S. Senate, it is unlikely that CNN will succeed in its attempted cover-up. Freedom of the press is the best disinfectant for public corruption. Bloggers are doing their duty.
Thanks Larry!
Here are my posts about it:
CNN’s ‘Chief News Executive’ says 12 reporters killed on purpose by U.S. …then backtracks
“Defamatory innuendo—rather than outright allegation—is the vehicle of mainstream media bias”
CNN finally reports on their own boss resigning in shame
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