They Shoot Journalists, Don't They?

Powerline is reporting that Jack Kelly of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has finally broken media silence on the Eason Jordan story that has been the buzz of the blogosphere for several days*;

The scandalous remarks of Eason Jordan, CNN's top news executive, last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the failure of the major media to report them suggest the distortions are deliberate.

Mr. Jordan told a panel that the U.S. military had killed a dozen journalists in Iraq, and that they had been deliberately targeted. When challenged, Mr. Jordan could provide no evidence to support the charge, and subsequently lied about having made it, though the record shows he had made a similar charge a few months before, and also earlier had falsely accused the Israeli military of targeting journalists.

Mr. Jordan's slander has created a firestorm in the blogosphere, but has yet to be mentioned in the "mainstream" media.

Gee, I wonder why not.

Jeff Jarvis has been following it closely too - apparently a tape of Jordan's statement is on its way from the event organizers, at the request of Sisyphus.

Updates: The Washington Times
is commenting, and Captains Quarters is catching other "cracks in the dam" of the mainstream media.

Posted by Kate at February 6, 2005 1:01 AM