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  • CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits

    02/11/2005 5:42:46 PM PST · by JesseJane · 108 replies · 5,353+ views
    AP ^ | 2/11/05 | By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
    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 (news - web sites). Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy. During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (news - web sites) 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...