EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED (Updated Info)

http://www.nationalreview.com ^ | 2/11/05 | Ramesh Ponnuru

[BCrago66]

EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED

Top CNN exec resigning over Davos remarks By Carolyn Pritchard CBS MarketWatch Last Updated: 6:40 PM ET Feb 11, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- CNN's top news executive, Eason Jordan, said Friday he's resigning amid controversy over his assertion that journalists were targeted and killed by coaltion forces in Iraq. "After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq," he said in a note to CNN staff. CNN is a unit of Time Warner (TWX: News, Quote) .

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341459/posts?page=60#60

[YaYa123]

Hugh Hewitt of The Weekly Standard told Chris Matthews on his Sunday show, that this story would break big this week.....and Matthews didn't know what Hugh was talking about.

Hugh should be taking bows bout now.

I'm watching CNN tonight to see if Jordan's name is mentioned at all.

[Indy Pendance]

Just use emotion, no facts, it's simple to be a lib, anyone can do it. It's hard to be a thinking conservative, why do you think they have had their sights set towards public schools? Get them early enough 'feel' about issues, not to think and fact check. I love their 'critically' thinking theories. Think like us, or fail.

[TheOtherOne]

CNN News Executive Quits Following Controversy Over Remarks

By David Bauder The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid 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.

After several management restructurings at CNN, Jordan actually had no current operational responsibility over network programming. But he was CNN's chief fix-it man overseas, arranging coverage in dangerous or hard-to-reach parts of the world.

"I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq," Jordan said.

"I have devoted my professional life to 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.

Jordan joined CNN in 1982 as an assistant assignment editor on the national news desk.

CNN's global newsgathering infrastructure is chiefly the result of Jordan's work, said Jim Walton, chief of the CNN News Group.

AP-ES-02-11-05 1939EST

[silent_jonny]

and all that time he was trading Sosa and should have been getting some decent pitching

Oh don't get me started on Sosa. Don't you know he was traded from the Texas Rangers so bushites could funnel more arms to the Contras!? :)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ODE TO JOY !

Another lib
Another fib
Another blot on CNN
This is the reason
This is the season
For firin' Eason

Away he's creepin'
We did our freepin'
Ta ta, schmuck Eason
You are the reason
We're makin' whoopee !

Terrific!

[Soul Seeker]

WooHoo!! This is definitely a vindication for our military. Note to the rest of the MSM- Stop dragging our military through the mud or we're coming after you.

[Indy Pendance]

Hey! Where's your FR link?????? Nicely done.

[Dog]

Is that you?

[Lazamataz]

CNN's global newsgathering infrastructure is chiefly the result of Jordan's work, said Jim Walton, chief of the CNN News Group.

I give the guy grudging respect for his organizational skills.

[Bahbah]

Very nice. Bookmarked. Thanks.

[ArmyBratproud]

Still nothing on CNN's web page about this.

HA!

[sam_paine]

Well....trade Gannon for Jordan, plus Rather. Not bad.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

HooRah!!

[silent_jonny]

Think like us, or fail.

I didn't know they were that civilized.

How about: "Think like us, or DIE, evil Republican fascist oinkers!!!"

[Lazamataz]

Is that you?

Is that you, John Wayne? Is it me?

WHO SAID THAT??? WHO THE **** SAID THAT????? WHO'S THE COMMUNIST LITTLE ****ING TWINKLETOES WHO JUST SIGNED HIS OWN DEATH WARRANT?????

[Timeout]

Michelle Malkin is quoting this thread...Freeper Old Expat

http://www.michellemalkin.com/

[Dog]

I'm watching CNN right now......nothing so far....odd don't you think the President of CNN resigns and they don't cover it.....hahaha!

[BigSkyFreeper]

If this is true, this is truly good news.

[Miss Marple]

Yes, Laz, but his organizational skills have managed to place a huge number of anti-American correspondents in places where they manage the news flow.

Stalin had organizational skills too, you know.

[mwl1]

Eason Jordan should have been gone a long time ago.

CNN = The Most Distrusted Name In the News.