And on Mr. Jordan, by extension. Well done. [Someone ought to help him find the missing WaPo article white-washing Jordan and Saddam.--ed. Good thought for once.]
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Roger,
Ask and ye shall receive.
I can’t beleive CNN did not get rid of this Jordan years ago. Once a fraud always a fraud.
I still don’t get his reasoning for the silence or why anyone believes it. I suppose he thinks it was worth the lives of so many to save so few. Basically, all he did was play God, deciding “who” would be killed.
I think the question is not whether or not Jordan goes down, but how many of his friends he takes with him. Now Cramer, Gowing and Kurtz are getting a hard look as well.
The precedent is the Jayson Blair scandal. The NYT tried to stonewall it. In the end, though, two men who could have otherwise saved their jobs ended up getting axed. IIRC, before the decision was made to cauterize the wound, it could well have cost Pinch his job.
ìPressure on Kurtzî
That is why Iím so confident of victory. The scandal is no longer merely about Eason Jordan—but the reluctance of the media elite to take him to task. We are now the rulers of the media. Letís pat ourselves on the back. The blogging community must merely be persistent—and in the long run the ìelitesî will surrender.
Do I really believe that we rule? Well, allow me to make an important distinction. We often get our butts kicked in the short run. They have so much more money than we do. In the long run, though,the old media are similar to elderly lions without teeth.
Bret Stephens, who is a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, has an interesting piece in Opinion Journal this morning. He was in the audience at the Davos discussion group where Eason Jordan made his remarks about the military targeting journalists. His verdict is this:
“Whether with malice aforethought or not, Mr. Jordan made a defamatory innuendo. Defamatory innuendo – rather than outright allegation – is the vehicle of mainstream media bias. Had Mr. Jordan’s innuendo gone unchallenged, it would have served as further proof to the Davos elite of the depths of American perfidy. Mr. Jordan deserves some credit for retracting the substance of his remark, and some forgiveness for trying to weasel his way out of a bad situation of his own making. Whether CNN wants its news division led by a man who can’t be trusted to sit on a panel and field softball questions is another matter.”
Read it at http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006273.
CNN is changing their slogan to:
“CNN, the least trusted name in news.”
Well I want to admit something to all of you. I feel rather silly.
I just realized one of the things we can do and no one has mentioned it, is to write our Senators asking for a hearing.
Even a few letters, letters being more effective than phone calls or emails will have an effect that there are people outside of Washington interested in this topic and how our military is being viewed.
I am sure as every time I turn on the news even Ted Kennedy is saying how he supports the troops….
Well I am not sure this is the correct expression especially given Roger’s position and status in life but I would say……Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate
………It is show time !!!
Eason Jordan has resigned!:
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/050211/323/fcbla.html
We are the ultimate rulers of the media. The blogging community kicks butt, and takes no prisoners. I hate to imitate a fundamentalist preacher, but we merely need to have the truth on our side—and victory will be ours. It is only in the short run where the MSM matters. In the long run, they ainít nothing to worry about!
The MSM are mostly second raters who have grown fat and lazy. The blogging regulars and other members of the new media are overall far more talented. We should take a bow. It is well deserved.
Someone said “it ain’t over till we said it’s over”
A truer statement has never been made. To think this was done almost void of M$M.
I would call this amazing. The turf battle continues. Who will be the gatekeepers of information? The web or M$M?