http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/easonjordan/ en-us Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:29:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947662/posts According to the Washington Times, the military reviewed the loss of Fallujah to Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda terrorists in 2004 to determine how the US lost control of the city. The Marine Corps should have beaten the terrorists in a straight up fight, but the Pentagon believes that the enemy had a lot of help from a surprising source -- surprising for everyone except those who watched it happen in real time: "The outcome of a purely military contest in Fallujah was always a foregone conclusion — coalition victory," read the assessment, prepared by analysts at the U.S. Army's National... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947662/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761843/posts My blogging has been lighter than usual the past few weeks due to family time, Fox News duties, holiday chaos, holiday illness--and, yes, planning for a trip to Iraq. As you know, ex-CNN newsman Eason Jordan extended an invitation to me three weeks ago to go to Iraq to investigate the Associated Press/"Jamil Hussein" story. He offered to pay for a trip. As you'll recall, I asked if he would offer to cover travel and security costs for Curt from Flopping Aces--who broke open the story of AP's dubious sources on Thanksgiving weekend and continues to lead the blogospheric search... michellemalkin.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761843/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:15:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738271/posts Beginning Wednesday, November 15, the sometimes called "CNN of the Arab world," will be out to capture the rest of the world as Al Jazeera International debuts on TV screens globally - in English. The new satellite station will run 24/7, broadcasting 12 hours a day from Al Jazeera's home base in Doha, Qatar, with another four hours each from Washington DC, London and Kuala Lumpur. For star power it will have David Frost doing interviews, with Wednesday's "scoop" scheduled to be his talk with Tony Blair. In its decade on the air, Al Jazeera in Arabic has become the... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738271/posts#comment Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:12:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548016/posts Big media was clearly on the defensive in 2005. Dan Rather left the CBS News anchor desk under a heavy cloud while other executives were fired in the wake of Memogate. The use of anonymous sources put journalists like Judith Miller and the NY Times in an uncomfortable spotlight. Newsweek's erroneous report that US Marines desecrated a Koran touched off a firestorm of deadly protests around the world. CNN news chief Eason Jordan was forced to resign over comments at an international forum. And an Al-Jazeera reporter was even convicted for his links to Al-Qaida. In each controversy, bloggers successfully... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548016/posts#comment Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533424/posts RUSH: I want to continue on the sound bite roll here, because this next is just choice. Talked about this yesterday. The media being all upset about the fact that the Pentagon reportedly buying space, buying stories, planting good news in the Iraqi media. "We can't have that, why, we can't have good news in the Iraqi media. Who gave them a right to do that? We can't go shaping and bending the news like that." The media's got an idea the news out of Iraq is going to be all bad. The Pentagon says, "Hey, we're going to... RushLimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533424/posts#comment Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:42:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412702/posts i-Newswire, 2005-05-24 - CNN/U.S. will air “Defining Moments: 25 Stories that Touched Our Lives” on Wednesday, June 1, an intimate recounting of the biggest television news events from the past quarter century as told by the newsmakers and journalists who lived through them. The two-part special airs from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. and then from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Special anniversary editions of Larry King Live, which is celebrating its 20th year, airs from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. All times Eastern. On June 1, 1980, CNN signed on the air as the world’s first 24-hour news network.... I-newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412702/posts#comment Sun, 29 May 2005 13:48:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408290/posts Note to the mainstream media: When one of your own finds itself in a deep ethics hole due to slinging accusations without truth, don’t grab the shovel and start digging one for yourself. Apparently, Newspaper Guild - Communications Workers of America President Linda Foley picked up the torch from former CNN news chief Eason Jordan to again accuse U.S. troops of deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq, but Jordan’s unsubstantiated claims created a firestorm resulting in his resignation. But unlike Jordan’s comments February at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the recording of Foley’s comments Friday in St. Louis is... RATHERGATE.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408290/posts#comment Sun, 22 May 2005 21:06:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1407339/posts The president of The Newspaper Guild has drawn intense flak from conservative news groups after it was disclosed that she had accused the U.S. military of targeting journalists in Iraq. In remarks made during a panel discussion at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis on May 13, Linda Foley said that not only U.S. journalists were being targeted. "They target and kill journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries, at news services like Al Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios, with impunity." The conservative website NewsMax.com charged that Foley had accused... Internet Movie Database http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1407339/posts#comment Fri, 20 May 2005 22:37:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1406401/posts It’s Time to Bring Back the Sedition Act Ratheresque in Proportion, Newsweek Fabricates a Story about our Military. By N. Beaujon May 19, 2005 Last week Newsweek magazine printed a story alleging that soldiers at Guantamamo Bay routinely dropped their enemy captives' Holy Koran in the toilet during interrogations. The story, not surprisingly, set the Muslim world ablaze with rioting, violence and anti-American sentiment. Sixteen people died, one hundred were injured and “holy” Mullahs everywhere were calling for yet another jihad against the United States (a.k.a. - “The Great Satan”). What else is new? The story, as it turned out,... nbeaujon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1406401/posts#comment Thu, 19 May 2005 15:47:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405667/posts NEW YORK - CBS said Wednesday it is cancelling the Wednesday edition of "60 Minutes," insisting the decision was made because of poor ratings and not last fall's ill-fated story about President Bush's military service Dan Rather, the newsmagazine's lead correspondent, will contribute stories to the Sunday edition of "60 Minutes," said CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves. "This was a ratings call, not a content call," Moonves said Wednesday. The newsmagazine spinoff was where Rather reported last September that Bush skirted some duty while in the Texas Air National Guard and a commander felt pressure to sugarcoat an evaluation of him.... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405667/posts#comment Wed, 18 May 2005 16:10:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404989/posts HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of Cubans answered Fidel Castro's call to file past the American mission early Tuesday in a "March against Terrorism," demanding that the United States arrest a Cuban militant in the deadly bombing of an airliner. Dressed in his traditional olive green military uniform and cap, the 78-year-old Castro showed up in the crowd outside the U.S. Interests Section minutes before the march was to start. "Down with terrorism!" Castro shouted in brief comments before he stepped off to lead the march. "Down with Nazi doctrines and methods! Down with the lies!" Marchers began... cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404989/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 18:12:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404977/posts SAF CALLS FOR ‘WAITING PERIODS’ ON PRESS FOLLOWING FATAL NEWSWEEK DEBACLE For Immediate Release: 5/16/2005 BELLEVUE, WA – More than 115 dead or injured, and now a lame “apology” from Newsweek; maybe it is time for the press to accept waiting periods before exercising its First Amendment rights in the same way the press has backed waiting periods on law-abiding Americans before exercising their Second Amendment rights. That’s the observation from the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) now that Newsweek has acknowledged its report about the desecration of the Koran by soldiers at Guantanamo Bay was bogus. “I wonder if Newsweek,... Second Amendment Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404977/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 17:54:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1397250/posts In the past, U.N. agencies have also sponsored "traveling seminars" for journalists so they write positive stories about U.N. projects. When conservative commentator Armstrong Williams was exposed for taking money from the Bush administration, his credibility was cast into doubt and news organizations expressed regrets for having had him on the air to comment on public policy issues. Williams was tainted by a conflict of interest that should have been revealed to the viewing audience. He was said to be a channel for Bush administration propaganda. Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1397250/posts#comment Thu, 5 May 2005 15:14:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396027/posts In its upcoming issue, Vanity Fair has done an investigation into the current cause of the kooky left, the case of disgraced White House reporter Jeff Gannon/James Guckert. And reporters David Margolick and Richard Gooding have uncovered...nothing. No White House wrongdoing. No secret plotting or illicit Gannon affairs with White House staffers. No Karl-Rove-master-plan-to-undermine-democracy hijinks. Nothing. "As time passed, Gannon came to seem, to at least some of the [left-wing] bloggers, as more like a freelance zealot than the linchpin of some much larger conspiracy," Margolick and Gooding write. "They now admit that for them Gannon emerged as less a... The Corner at National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396027/posts#comment Tue, 3 May 2005 19:51:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383238/posts Journalist and former hostage Giuliana Sgrena says that the American military is lying about the shooting at a security checkpoint in Iraq that wounded her and killed an Italian intelligence officer. Days before the Pentagon is expected to release the results of its investigation into what happened at the checkpoint, Sgrena tells Correspondent Scott Pelley that shortly after her release by insurgents, American soldiers in Baghdad opened fire on her car without any warning. Pelley's interview with Sgrena will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Wednesday, April 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari negotiated Sgrena's release from... CBS 60 Minutes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383238/posts#comment Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:46:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1394692/posts Original story: I have an unconfirmed story that CBS is reporting an American satellite recorded video that shows the car carrying Giulliana travelling at over 60 mph! If this proves to be true her entire story falls apart. Update: It's confirmed, Pentagon sources maintain that the distance the car travelled (91 meters)and the time it took (3 sec.) means the vehicle WAS travelling at a speed greater than 60mph. So, as we suspected Giuliana Sgrena is a communist agenda driven hyper pacifist lying POS. Update II: It appears from the animation video that the approaching Sgrena car WAS warned with... OpiniPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1394692/posts#comment Sun, 1 May 2005 15:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390110/posts BBC Correspondent gives his first interview The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390110/posts#comment Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:38:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378738/posts Rony Abovitz didn't intend to be a media star, a darling of the right, a villain to the left. He just wanted to take in one of the more interesting sessions at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, a panel called "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" He was drawn by the prestigious lineup of speakers: CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan; David R. Gergen, adviser to four presidents; U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.); Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC World Service; and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's minister of foreign affairs. But as Abovitz listened at the January... AJR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378738/posts#comment Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:00:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376887/posts As a rule, when I write a piece about all the mistakes my newspaper, the L.A. Times, makes, I have to wait a week or even two to compile a selection large enough to make it worth our while. It’s not that they don’t come up with a ready supply on a daily basis. Heck, UPS doesn’t deliver the goods with such regularity. But some of the goofs are simply too boring to mention, as when they get the days and times of certain events wrong or when they simply misspell someone’s name. Sometimes, too, the corrections run even longer... MENS NEWS DAILY.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376887/posts#comment Mon, 4 Apr 2005 05:56:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366376/posts Pseudo-journalistic Web sites are another way conservatives get around “the filter” of mainstream media. It’s a new medium, but, for the Republican Party, it’s an old story. During one especially hectic week in mid-February, the Internet took three scalps in what appeared to be unrelated events. Liberal bloggers forced Talon News White House correspondent James D. Guckert, a k a “Jeff Gannon,” to resign after it was revealed that he was writing under a false name for a Republican activist group (GOPUSA), that he was not really a journalist at all, and that he had posed nude on the Internet... The American Prospect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366376/posts#comment Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:31:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358414/posts Colleagues under fire but U.S. media mute My complaint about the compliant ANTONIA ZERBISIAS You have to wonder what Eason Jordan thinks about last Friday's attack on the car that took Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena from her kidnapping ordeal to her close call at the Baghdad airport. Jordan is the CNN news chief who in January made controversial remarks about U.S. troops targeting journalists, comments which led to his resigning "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." Alarming indeed: at least... Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358414/posts#comment Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:17:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358696/posts Journalists under fireLONDON -- With Eason Jordan's resignation from CNN, newly powerful bloggers reveled in their unseating of another mainstream-media powerhouse. The term "Easongate" briefly entered the English language. And world attention was distracted from the serious issue of journalists' safety. International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358696/posts#comment Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:34:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358460/posts Democrats ask White House for documents on conservative blogger BY ELANA SCHOR Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - (KRT) - U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the House's top Democrat for homeland security, has found an unlikely place in need of his protection: the White House press room. Thompson and four colleagues, all senior congressional Democrats, have petitioned Bush administration officials to release classified documents about James D. Guckert, a conservative activist who was a daily fixture at White House press briefings. Calling himself Jeff Gannon, Guckert asked President Bush questions at televised news conferences as a representative of Talon News Service,... Knight Ridder Newspapers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358460/posts#comment Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:11:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1358354/posts Over the weekend, I caught CNN removing a damning quote from a story about Italian Communist journalist Guiliana Sgrena, recently released from some form of captivity in Iraq for a reported $6 million ransom, about why she was in Iraq in the first place. She was there, in her own words, to agitate against America and the war-- Sgrena said she "risked everything" to challenge "the Italian government, who didn't want journalists to reach Iraq, and the Americans," who she said don't want the public to see "what really became of that country with the war, and notwithstanding that which... JYB Transfinitum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1358354/posts#comment Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:50:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358051/posts During one especially hectic week in mid-February, the Internet took three scalps in what appeared to be unrelated events. Liberal bloggers forced Talon News White House correspondent James D. Guckert, a k a “Jeff Gannon,” to resign after it was revealed that he was writing under a false name for a Republican activist group (GOPUSA), that he was not really a journalist at all, and that he had posed nude on the Internet in an effort to solicit sex for money. Conservative bloggers, meanwhile, created a firestorm after Eason Jordan, the chief news executive for CNN, made controversial remarks during... The American Prospect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358051/posts#comment Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:14:21 GMT