Still, CNN must believe they have a chance at plausible deniability and that video or a damaging transcript won’t surface. Could they be taking care of that end of business, as well? And, anybody hear further from Dems Barney Frank or Chris Dodd who were there that night? Probably not.

Helveticus’ take on what occurred sounds about right. But I hope there will be some hell to pay for what Jordan said at Davos and, apparently, not for the first time. May the Cred Nullified News not manage us as well as they “manage” the news.

The atmosphere that is cultivated at Davos – maybe not in the big plenary sessions but certainly in the smaller discussions, like this one was – is one of “off-the-record intimacy”. Does anybody know if there was anyone from the press in the room when Jordan made his remarks? I don’t think so, otherwise this would have been reported somewhere besides through the blogs (and I don’t count Jordan himself as a member of the press, since – I am pretty sure – he was commenting in his role as a featured session speaker, and not as a journalist covering the discussion). So he may have been taken completely by surprise by the fact that a staff member of the World Economic Forum themselves was blogging the discussion. Hence the desperate backpedalling.

In that case, Jordan is like the Dixie Chicks – Americans who start spewing anti-US or at least anti-Bush venom once they’re abroad. They apparently haven’t figured out that what they say outside the US can still be picked up by bloggers, directly or indirectly, and zapped back to the good old US of A instantaneously. Then comes the whole “I was misunderstood” shtick. Pathetic. Jordan should apologize to the Armed Forces or be sacked. But we all know he won’t be.

I used to call it the COMMUNIST News Network

Today, I get CORRUPT News Network

and CYNICAL News Network

and CONSCIENCE-FREE News Hetwork

And once again, they are no doubt doing exactly the same thing in Palestinian territories. A number of news outfits have done that. Furthermore, they are still doing it with Cuba, which Ted Turner seems to imagine is a peoples’ paradise (it is for sex tourists from Europe and Canada).

So need new names. “News” doesn’t seem right either.

And please note: the problem goes much deeper than Eason Jordan. At the same News Xchange conference in Portugal, another CNN executive, Chris Cramer, told an audience that journalists were being ìdeliberately targeted for seeking out the truth.î

… and specifically Eason Jordan.

Maybe this is part of a defense mechanism against his own fears of ‘karma’ catching up with him. Perhaps the same process can explain Ted Turner.

That is to say, he is lying himself. Occaisionally the lie is verbalized in public. Mostly it’s just to keep “the drumming monkey” from pounding his psyche into pulp.