Eason Jordan - did he say it or didn't he?

Well, the non-left-wing blogs all over the place have been on this Eason Jordan thing, to the point that even Kos has had to make a snarky remark about it, but I think I'd better help make sure there's no one left who can ignore this. So let's get this out of the way...

At Davos, Eason Jordan alleged that US troops have been targetting journalists and killing them. He offered no evidence to back this up whatsoever. Since then he's denied that's what he meant, claiming his words were taken out of context or misunderstood or misquoted or something. But multiple witnesses maintain he said just that. Also, it seems there's a videotape, but they won't release it, for reasons that are a tad murky.

Mr. Jordan has said a lot of crazy things, leftist conspiracy story things, over the past few years. This is just the latest. He's the Chief News Executive at CNN. That's the same CNN that admitted it played down Saddam' atrocities in order to maintain access to him. (Actually it was Eason Jordan who said so, but why would he lie about *that*?) The man's an embarrassment, and he's in charge. What does that tell us about CNN?

I've been collecting stories about how untrustworthy mainstream news is right here (Angelfire, so turn off the Javascript.) After Rathergate I figured the point had been both made and proven beyond reasonable doubt. I didn't want to beat a dead horse. But for completeness' sake I'm adding this latest thing.

Besides, I'm going to comment on the Jeff Gannon business soon in a coming post, and I intend to make the Bush bashers wish they'd never brought it up. The problems of mainstream news ("MSM") tie into that, so I'm posting this latest example as a prequel.

Some links...
Winds of Change comments
Blogherald has a roundup
Glenn Reynolds on the videotape question

So much for that.

Angelfire link (turn off Javascript to avoid popups)

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