I Would Have Fired Eason Jordan

Slate ^ | 02/14/05 | Jack Shafer

[Pikamax]

I Would Have Fired Eason Jordan On the difference between a mistake and brain rot. By Jack Shafer Posted Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, at 3:40 PM PT

The Wall Street Journal editorial page, never the most sympathetic venue for speakers who accuse the U.S. military of murdering civilians, thinks CNN wronged its chief news executive, Eason Jordan, by forcing him to resign over his statements at Davos.

Although the Jan. 27 Davos session was closed to the public, a consensus holds that Jordan claimed knowledge of 12 journalists who had been targeted and killed by U.S. forces. When challenged by fellow panelist Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., Jordan retreated into generalizations and claimed that some people believe the military has it in for journalists. The forgiving Journal editorialists write:

[Pikamax]

what the?? WSJ defending Jordan, Slate saying he should have been fired??? What's going on??

[2111USMC]

"brain rot"

LOL!

[Joe Boucher]

Long ago for other journalistic indiscretions.
I could list them like looking the other way for Sadam,
or his obvious bias against anything conservative or Bush.

[John Lenin]

How many oil vouchers did this clown get from Saddam ?

[speedy]

My sentiments exactly. Looks like the bylines were switched or something. Unless I am totally misreading this or missing some very subtle sarcasm, this Slate article nails it pretty well.

[elbucko]

I could list them like looking the other way for Sadam,..

I wonder, could Eason Jordan's looking the other way from human rights violations, in order to further his own or CNN's interests, be considered international human rights violations of their own. I certainly hope so. Jordan should be brought before the World Court in handcuffs.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Actually, Schafer is one of the better journalists, as far as media analysis is concerned, even if he is a flaming lib.

[St.Mark]

Dog and Cats living together, the world is up side down...

[CyberAnt]

The article's over at Opinionjournal.com

Of course he should have been fired!!

[Bahbah]

The supreme editor of a news organization can't expect to make unsupportable inflammatory statements and maintain the respect of his truth-seeking troops at the same time.

CNN doesn't have any "truth-seeking troops". The rest of the article is pretty good.

[billorites]

"It troubles me that Davos policy prohibits attendees from citing specific quotations from its sessions and yet the proceedings are videotaped. What do they do with the videotapes of the "not for quotation" session after recording? Burn them?"

Indeed.

[CyberAnt]

"Long ago for other journalistic indiscretions"

Yes .. such as making similar statements re our military.

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342641/posts
The Jordan Kerfuffle
Opinion Journal (Wall Street Journal) ^ | 2-14-05 | The Editors


Most disappointing...one of their own was there.
The WSJ deserves any criticism it gets.

[cake_crumb]

"This is a man with very strange news judgment."

He's a man with very strange judgement, period. Probably caused by advanced brain rot due to sleeping with too many enemies for too many years. I'm very glad Slate brought up Jordan's indefensable policy of covering up Saddam's atrocities in order to keep his Baghdad CNN office. Shame they didn't point out that CNN'S broadcast of Saddam propaganda was running lone before Jordan's admission.

He did worse than make a mistake. For 12 years, deliberately didn't tell the world (or the CIA or the White House) of Saddam's torture chambers and rape rooms, thus becoming complicit in the Saddam regime's atrocities, he had the gall to make the excuse that he was only trying to make the best of a bad situation, and only later, after he assumed the furor of 12 years of being an accomplice to murder had blown over did he try to pander to the Arab world.

Jordan has to be as deep in Saddam's pocket as that al Jazeera editor was (and HE was canned long before Jordan) No doubt he's been financially influenced by other terrorist regimes as well.

[sportutegrl]

Eason Jordan gets among a group of America haters and goes with the crowd, spewing his crowd loving anti-american filth. This is the essence of unpatriotism. Someone who truly loves his country will never speak ill of America to foreign nationals. It is one thing to complain about your country to fellow countrymen, you might have a chance to make a difference. (I still would do this rarely.) But, what good does it do to trash the USA to foreigners, who are already laughing at us behind our back?

[John Lenin]

The man resigned of his own will. There must be a reason why.

[MEG33]

This is not the first time Jordan has stepped in it..
RELEASE THE TAPE!


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338447/posts
Eason's Fables-- the sordid Jordan Story
various FR links & stories | 02-08-05 | the heavy equipment guy


Posted on 02/08/2005 4:25:08 AM CST by backhoe

[cake_crumb]

"The man resigned of his own will. There must be a reason why."

Yep.

[cake_crumb]

He COULD have been forced to realize that his statements alledging targeting journalists is US military policy (playing up to Arab terrorists) MIGHT cause people to question his hypocricy in having an affair with Marianne Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl - who was definitely murdered by Arab terrorists. Unlike the film of Jordan's remarks, the film of Pearl's murder (or it's reinactment) WAS released.

[OldFriend]

I don't understand this double talk about not being permitted to release tapes of Davos seminars.

A good part of the meetings were televised on CSPIN.