February 08, 2005

After CNN Chief News exec Eason Jordan's remark at Davos stating his belief that the U.S. military was deliberately killing journalists, the blogosphere's finest went into a posting frenzy refusing to quit howling until the MSM was forced to tackle the story.
Check out the "blog swarm" here:
(Be sure and start with these entries and then look at their previous posts about Jordan for the few days preceeding if you need to familiarize yourself with the story)
Michelle Malkin
Captain's Quarters
Jim Geraghty at The Kerry Spot
Jay Rosen
Instapundit on Slate
La Shawn Barber's devoted a whole section to Easongate.
Of course, the men at Powerline blogged up a storm.
And, finally, there's a new blog devoted entirely just to EasonGate:
Easongate.com

Here's hoping this *reasonable* piece--which was put in the "Style" section--by the WashingtonCompost's Howie Kurtz is just the first such instance of Old Media finally confronting one of their own again when he screws up:
Eason Jordan, Quote, Unquote
Jordan shouldn't be allowed to get away with this and I'd like to see his resignation, too.
(He, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes can start a poker game or something...)
This isn't the first time that Mr. Jordan's been involved in some nefarious media antics:
He admitted that CNN had collaborated with Saddam and his régime of torture and murder so that CNN could keep reporting from Baghdad.
Read the longer post here about this huge 2003 scandal at Cox & Forkum.
And on a personal note, he's been dating the widow of murdered WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded by radical Muslims in Pakistan.
At CNN, like any other company, the CEO sets the tone of the entire company's work product.
How can we expect "news" without an agenda when its top exec so clearly has one, which is so grossly anti-American and anti-U.S. military and pro-Islamist terrorism?
Jordan's even accused the Israelis of "targeting journalists" in 2002:
Slublog has the 4-1-1, but the news story, in which Jordan said this about covering the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict in has been "disappeared:"

EJ: Absolutely, well the Israeli government is making a mistake if it considers CNN the enemy, CNN is just trying to tell the story of Israel, the story of Palestinian areas in a straightforward way. We're not trying to favour one side over the other we're not going to pull any punches in our reporting but the truth hurts sometimes and it hurts both sides but it's a mistake to target the news media. We've had enormous frustrations in having access to occupied areas of the West Bank and Israeli forces on a number of occasions have shot at CNN personnel and in fact did shoot one CNN correspondent, he was badly wounded. The Israelis say they're actually trying to restrict our access to these areas and they say it's too dangerous for you to be there and my response to that is that it wouldn't be nearly as dangerous if you didn't shoot at us when we're clearly labelled as CNN crews and journalists. And so this must stop, this targeting of the news media both literally and figuratively must come to an end immediately.

If Jordan's guilty of nothing else besides BIAS, it's gotta be his fast and loose use of the word "target." When we have every reason to believe that the MSM are still colloborating with IslamoFacist killers in Iraq-- and everywhere else-- against us, why should Jordan be allowed to whine about the "safety" of his reporters in the war zone when it is so biased in favor of the enemy? Notice how the "insurgents" in Iraq always stage their attacks in the morning, a particularly marked instance of which was last Sunday's election? That's no coincidence--it's so they'll make the morning news cycle here in the West for maximum effect. Worse still, journalists and their photographers always "happen" to be there when the "insurgents" launch an attack or have a point they want made. CNN, as well as Reuters, AP and NBC, have been sleeping with the Enemy--I personally won't forgive ever NBC reporter Kevin Sites for his "merciless Marine" story. (Last time he was heard from, he was reporting on tsunami relief for NBC, even though he's "freelance and doesn't really work for NBC" from some Asian disaster site.) What are our choices but to turn off the TV and blog but for them to take their pro-enemy-in-wartime propaganda off?

Update: The New York Sun, which is giving both the Old Gay Lady and even the NYPost a run for their money, has a story on Easongate today also!