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Eason Quits, the Blog Roars

NEW YORK - CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq.
Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.

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But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up. There was an online petition calling on CNN to find a transcript, and fire Jordan if he said the military had intentionally killed journalists.

La Shawn Barber states, "The 'online petition' they’re referring to is on Easongate.com!!!"

The overwhelming force of the online blogging community has again been used to take down a top MSM executive for publicly defaming our military.

Update - Late last year, Hugh Hewitt wrote in The Blog,

"There was no shared plan of attack among the blogs. There was no coordination between them and their allies in talk radio and a few corners of MSM such as FOX News. There was, however, a network and there was an understanding of what mattered - facts - and a desire for speed and, crucially, a target. The destructive energy of the blogsphere is fierce indeed when focused."

How true in this particular case.

Captain Ed, who led the battle wins blogospheric praise, remarks,

CNN isn't the only organization damaged by Eason's Fables. Unlike Memogate, most major news outlets ignored this story for two weeks while it gathered steam in the blogosphere and finally broke out through the punditry. The MSM may have taken a mortal blow, and the age of limited information availability has died along with it.

Posted by tim at February 11, 2005 6:16 PM

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