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« Nashville Blogs | Main | Nashville Bloggers Breakfast » February 12, 2005The Blogosphere Bags Another Lying Slanderous Big Media JournalistEason Jordan, the head of CNN, has resigned amid the growing furor over his slandering the U.S. military with the unsupportable and outrageous claim that the military has a policy of assassinating journalists in Iraq. Details and links here. His resignation comes too late to undo the damage CNN did under his leadership by covering up stories of Saddam Hussein's atrocities in the 1990s. How many more Iraqis died because CNN's soft-pedaling of Hussein's tyranny allowed the civilized world to delay taking action to depose the dictator? We'll never know. But we do know this: CNN did less than it could to help them. And neither CNN nor Eason Jordan have ever apologized. P.S. The Eason Jordan story was blog-journalism at its finest, while Big Media slept or actively and intentionally ignored the story. Hugh Hewitt comments. UPDATE: According to the wire report on Jordan's resignation, "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." We don't know how Jordan "fixes" it in every dangerous part of the world, but we do know how Jordan arranged to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open during the 1990s. We know because Jordan admitted it. We know that at Jordan's behest, CNN soft-pedaled Saddam's atrocities. What we don't know is, how many more Iraqis died because CNN covered for Saddam. UPDATE 2/12: 2nd Lt. Lance Frizzell has some thoughts about the resignation of CNN chief Eason Jordan. Posted in Blogging & Journalism
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Excellllllllent. We continue to consolidate our hold on the media. Soon the only journos left standing will be those who blindly support our vision of the world. Amen, brothers and sisters and thank the lord that we know what demokkkracy means. I just hope that Gannon/Guckert fellow gets a pass. He may be a fraud and a mole for our leaders in the White House.... but he's OUR mole, after all. Posted by: 1MaNLan at February 12, 2005 08:21 AMI saw the headline and thought you were going to write about Gannon/Guckert, but then I realized the key word was "big" when, after all, what the blogosphere had really done is bag another lying, slanderous "fake" media "journalist." Posted by: Nickerson at February 12, 2005 12:10 PMWhat insidious, nuanced "point" are you clowns trying to make when you imbed "kkk" is words like Democracy and Ashcroft? It's a cute rhetorical trick and looks witty on paper, but what the hell is your point? The party of the evil neocons has one open Klan member serve (David Duke), the GOP got rid of his sorry ass. Not so for the DNC (ref Robert Byrd). I know to you I'm just a stupid southern homophobic redneck, but I just can't grasp what the hell the KKK has to do with American foreign policy. If you can enlighten me without resorting to name-calling, platitudes, slogans and cute tricks, please do. Further, if you're upset about Gannon and Armstrong Williams, shouldn't you be just as upset about Kos and Atrios taking cash to plug for the left? What about "journalists" like Amanpour and Begala? Who's closing ranks, here? Hypocrisy, anyone? Posted by: Ivan at February 12, 2005 03:00 PMIts not just Jordan who believes the US targets journalists, the International Federation of Journalists does as well. Perhaps the number killed by US troops in dubious circumstances is mere coincidence, as is the bombing of Aljazeera's offices in both Kabul and Baghdad - despite their location being known by the US military. Oh and lets not forget the bombing of the state television studios in Belgrade. Wesley Clark justified the bombing and subsequent deaths claiming that the Serbian media were involved in spreading propaganda.. clearly the precedent was set to take out those who issued information contrary to the US line. I have no idea if CNN played down the atrocities after the Gulf War but if they did they probably took their cue from the UD government which did likewise. After all Bush Snr called on the Iraqi people to rise up then when they did they were left to their fate. Its documented fact that US troops prevented rebels equipping themselves at Iraqi army weapons dumps controlled by the US military. You might also ponder the reaction of the US media and government to Saddam's atrocities pre-Gulf War when Reagan and Bush Snr considered him their best buddy. Interesting how the fate of the Iraqi people became of interest to some only after Saddam became a bad guy. Posted by: Steve at February 13, 2005 09:53 AMPost a comment
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