Nearly as intriguing as the (liberal academia) Ward Churchill debacle, this Eason Jordan (liberal news media) debacle is one of those stories you’ll wish you’d been staying abreast of.
Just yesterday I blogged about Eason Jordan (also here), head of liberal media news channel CNN (which is in second place to Fox News Channel, now available in Canada through Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco and Star*Choice).
Jordan had done what liberals do all the time—planted a seed into the brains of barely listening people, so that over time the various already-planted seeds germinate and the liberal ideas contained therein becomes more and more plausible; more and more normal-sounding and acceptable. And often, as with this example, the willing liberal media run with the germ of a (non) story—the facts be damned—simply because some big liberal media twit said it lending some bizarre sense of creditability to the baloney non-story.
Now he has quit! Apparently the blogosphere and modern media have won another one for the Gipper.
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.
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