Obligatory post on Eason Jordan

By Aziz P. -
Below the fold is a relevant excerpt. I verified this with a friend of mine who is a producer at CNN. I think it speaks for itself, and I share Kevin Drum's concern. However, Kevin is wrong about one thing - the Left blogsphere has indeed had some positive successes, not just collecting scalps.

 

Eason Jordan resigned, though it's pretty clear that he did not say what has been attributed to him by the scalp hunters on the right.

Though no transcript of Mr. Jordan's remarks at Davos on Jan. 27 has been released, the panel's moderator, David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News & World Report, said in an interview last night that Mr. Jordan had initially spoken of soldiers, "on both sides," who he believed had been "targeting" some of the more than four dozen journalists killed in Iraq.

Almost immediately after making that assertion, Mr. Jordan, whose title at CNN had been executive vice president and chief news executive, "quickly walked that back to make it clear that there was no policy on the part of the U.S. government to target or injure journalists," Mr. Gergen said.

Mr. Jordan was then challenged by Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who was in the audience. Mr. Jordan then said that he had intended to say only that some journalists had been killed by American troops who did not know they were aiming their weapons at journalists.


Shrug. I don't watch CNN. Probably good to have some recycling at the top, anyway, is my feeling.

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