Paging Eason Jordan (former CNN news exec) -- two words: Giuliana Sgrena

Someone in my family just shared this thought that sent chills up her spine, when she connected Eason Jordan's comment, and what happened to Giuliana Sgrena. What did/does Jordan know?


Link:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=492860

NEW YORK Feb 11, 2005 — CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid 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.

During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted.

He quickly backed off the remarks, explaining that he meant to distinguish between journalists killed because they were in the wrong place when a bomb fell, for example, and those killed because they were shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy.

"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," Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.

But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up. He was the target of an Internet and Web site campaign that was beginning to rival the one launched against CBS's Dan Rather following the network's ill-fated story last fall about President Bush's military service....

I clearly have missed something here! What are u refering to?

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=492860

NEW YORK Feb 11, 2005 — CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid 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.

During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted.

He quickly backed off the remarks, explaining that he meant to distinguish between journalists killed because they were in the wrong place when a bomb fell, for example, and those killed because they were shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy.

"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," Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.

But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up. He was the target of an Internet and Web site campaign that was beginning to rival the one launched against CBS's Dan Rather following the network's ill-fated story last fall about President Bush's military service....

I do remember this story, but didnt connect the name to it...thanks for updating it for me. well..yeah...the line between those dots seems rather clear, eh?

And then we shot at her?

There must be a place for journalists like Jordan and Peter Arnett to make their voices heard.
Truthout?
Common Dreams?
Do they have to just fade away into our national amnesia?

If they heed the warnings, they end up like Rather. If not, they end up like Hatfield.

....I'm sure she's got a lot to tell if she survives.

Peace.


"DO YOU ENJOY BEING A CITIZEN OF THE ROGUE, RUTHLESS SUPER_POWER?"

....against the US.....":

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1671944,00.html


BE THE BU$H OPPOSITION;24/7

I'd really like to hear from Jordan on this, and as suggested by harlinnchi in LBN, from our media re. Jordan and this tragic incident.

that US Forces would not know the car was carrying the journalist and the top Italian negotiator,

stretches credulity to say the least

http://foi.missouri.edu/federalfoia/cpjdisturbed.html

CPJ disturbed by lack of investigation into attack on Al-Jazeera's Baghdad bureau

Report
Commitee to Protect Journalists
October 10, 2003.

Six months after the U.S. shelled the Palestine Hotel in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, and an air strike hit the Baghdad bureau of the Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) filed three new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to the incidents with the U.S. Defense Department.

In addition, CPJ reiterated its recommendations, including urging U.S. Central Command (Centcom) to ensure that U.S. forces take all necessary precautions to avoid harming members of the media.

The FOIA requests seek information regarding the two April 8 attacks, as well as the August 17 killing of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana by a machine-gunner near the Abu Ghraib Prison, outside Baghdad, and the March 22 death of British ITV News reporter Terry Lloyd, whose two colleagues remain missing. The requests seek information including but not limited to military investigations that have been conducted into these incidents, the details of which U.S. officials have not made public.

CPJ was disturbed to discover this week that no investigation into the attack on Al-Jazeera's Baghdad bureau has been launched. CPJ calls on the U.S. Defense Department and Centcom to ensure that a thorough and public investigation is started immediately.

José Couso, a cameraman with Spanish television station Telecinco, and Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk were killed on April 8 when a U.S. tank fired on the Palestine Hotel, where the majority of the international press corps in Iraq was headquartered during the U.S.-led war. Al-Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayyoub was killed earlier that morning when U.S. aircraft bombed the Baghdad bureau's generator.

In addition to Ayyoub, Couso, Dana, and Protsyuk, recent information indicates that U.S. and Iraqi forces may also be responsible for the death of ITV News's Lloyd.
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and the other individual(s) harmed or killed by US forces subsequent to her release needs to be more aggressively pursued. I'd like to see a MSM reference.

Sorry, DeepModem Mom, I'll look for relevant threads more carefully prior to mis-posting!

to the LBN thread, and reminded me to bring up the subject again, on its own, in GD. Thanks!