As Wes notes below, Eason Jordan of CNN has resigned. In retrospect, the whole thing seems unbelievable. He can't have been so stupid as not to know what he was saying, and how could he not know what would happen if someone called him on it.? He is sticking with his "I never meant to say what I obviously did say" storyline.
While my CNN colleagues and my friends in the U.S. military know me well enough to know I have never stated, believed, or suspected that U.S. military forces intended to kill people they knew to be journalists, my comments on this subject in a World Economic Forum panel discussion were not as clear as they should have been.
I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise. I have great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul, in addition to my time with American soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen in Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the Arabian Gulf.
Tip to Pressthink.
There is a videotape of the Davos meeting but it has not been released to the public. It would be interesting to know who controls the tape, and why they could not at least release the portions in which Jordan is speaking.
This story suggests something important: this is probably the way Jordan and others like him were accustomed to talking back when a few networks controlled the news. They could say about anything they wanted, trusting that the dangerous stuff would be filtered out long before it reached the airwaves. Jordan just hadn't adjusted to the new world yet. It didn't occur to him that it only takes one blogger in any audience to blow the whistle.
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