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Happy now?
The crowing from some sections of the blogosphere about how the Mainstream Media "missed" the Eason Jordan story and how this is another example of the power of citizen journalism sicken me.
It's an example of how individuals with a political agenda can harness the internet to organise a lynch mob.
Jordan didn't help his case.
He could have saved his job by releasing the video of his appearance at the World Economic Forum, issuing a statement clarifying his comments and thereby shutting down the spiralling affair.
Even so, Jordan is the victim of a tawdry online whispering campaign perpetrated by cranks.
Happy now?
The crowing from some sections of the blogosphere about how the Mainstream Media "missed" the Eason Jordan story and how this is another example of the power of citizen journalism sicken me.
It's an example of how individuals with a political agenda can harness the internet to organise a lynch mob.
Jordan didn't help his case.
He could have saved his job by releasing the video of his appearance at the World Economic Forum, issuing a statement clarifying his comments and thereby shutting down the spiralling affair.
Even so, Jordan is the victim of a tawdry online whispering campaign perpetrated by cranks.
posted by Stuart at 12:59
3 Comments:
Really? Tawdry? Surely you jest!
You fail to note Jordan's long history of denigrating US troops utilizing the same "journalists targeted" nonsense.
Example Nov 2004:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1355027,00.html
Example Similar remarks about the Israeli army in 2002:
http://www.newsxchange.org/newsx/newsx2002/middleeast.html
Not to mention Jordan's admission he purposly with held evidence of Saddams atrocities so CNN could maintain its presence in Iraq.
Tawdry?? You must be a fool! Eason was another who used his position to make accusations without tangible proof. Him and "Dan Blather" are of the same cloth.
All I can say is that the US armed forces must be really rubbish then!
First they happen to bomb by 'accident' Al Jazeera's offices even though Al Jazeera had provided the co-ordinates. Bomb the hotel in which most of the foreign media were staying in Baghdad. Shoot by 'accident' a journalist for Abu Dhabi tv....Well all arabs look a like terrorists don't they !
Easton should have just said that the Armed forces were rather crappy! No one could have then argued with that.
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