This videotape is the new Form 180. There will be a cursory mention here and there that the tape exists, but no demand from MSM that it be made available (oh, maybe someday, when we’re well past the point, Tim Russert will interview Jordan and say “So, Eason, how about letting us take a look at that tape?”). As usual, new media wants to shine a spotlight and old media wants to hide it under a barrel.

I love how Kurtz ends the piece with David Gergen’s quote: “He deserves the benefit of the doubt”.

I was a bit surprised by this actually.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who attended the World Economic Forum panel at which Jordan spoke, recalled yesterday that Jordan said he knew of 12 journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq. At first, said Frank, “it sounded like he was saying it was official military policy to take out journalists.” But Jordan later “modified” his remarks to say some U.S. soldiers did this “maybe knowing they were killing journalists, out of anger. . . . He did say he was talking about cases of deliberate killing,” Frank said.

Jordan denied that last night, saying he had been responding to Frank’s comment that the 63 journalists who have been killed in Iraq were “collateral damage” in the war. “I was trying to make a distinction between ‘collateral damage’ and people who got killed in other ways,” Jordan said last night. “I have never once in my life thought anyone from the U.S. military tried to kill a journalist. Never meant to suggest that. Obviously I wasn’t as clear as I should have been on that panel.”