{"id":3091,"date":"2005-02-11T18:46:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T01:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/goodbye-eason-old-chappie\/"},"modified":"2005-02-11T18:46:59","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T01:46:59","slug":"goodbye-eason-old-chappie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/11\/goodbye-eason-old-chappie\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Eason old chappie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tSo it’s curtains for Saddam-spinner Eason Jordan:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nSAN FRANCISCO (AFX) — CNN’s top news executive, Eason Jordan, said Friday he’s resigning amid controversy over his assertion that journalists were targeted and killed by coaltion forces in Iraq. ‘After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq,’ he said in a note to CNN staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With Jeff Gannon a goner too, it’s Blogs 2, Scumbags 0. Not a bad week. Now let’s build on this triumph by helping Howie Kurtz<\/a> out the door.<\/p>\n

H\/T Mickey Kaus<\/a> and Jefe Jarvis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: See Rony Abovitz’ blog<\/a> for comments from the guy who broke the story from Davos, and Michelle Malkin<\/a> for the timeline.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s curtains for Saddam-spinner Eason Jordan: SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) — CNN’s top news executive, Eason Jordan, said Friday he’s resigning amid controversy over his assertion that journalists were targeted and killed by coaltion forces in Iraq. ‘After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being … Continue reading “Goodbye Eason old chappie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-NR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}