If you haven’t heard anything about Eason Jordan in the news, it’s because the MSM is stonewalling the truth; they are sitting on their hands protecting one of their own.

One of their own who happens to sit on top of a very lofty throne: head of CNN’s news division(CNN—Why More Americans Are Turning To Blogs for the Truth in Journalism®). For those of you who need some good background on the story, I would start with this Michelle Malkin column.

The best summary was penned by Jim Geraghty:

We’ve got two dramatically different interpretations here – the account of Rony Abovitz and Rebecca MacKinnon and Barney Frank, and the account of Eason Jordan. (Dodd’s statement appears to confirm Rony & Company but is brief; Gergen mostly confirms Rony but is sympathetic to Jordan; Richard Sambrook’s account is pretty close to Jordan’s.)

These accounts are so contradictory on so many key elements that one has no choice but to conclude one side is dramatically misrepresenting what happened.

The videotape that the Davos authorities are sitting on would solve this issue immediately.

Either Rony, MacKinnon, and Frank are passing on inaccurate accounts that will trash Jordan’s reputation, or Eason Jordan’s denial is a lie. . . .

Either Jordan said it, or he didn’t. Right now, the reputations of the five “he said it” witnesses (Rony, MacKinnon, Frank, Gergen, Dodd) – are on the line on one side, and Jordan and Sambrook’s reputation is bet on the other side.

Davos authorities, this cloud cannot hang over each side’s reputation forever. You can settle this by releasing the tape. Help us learn who’s telling the truth.

And everybody else in the media – blogs, mainstream, left, right, big, small – can help add to the pressure by politely but firmly calling on the World Economic Forum to release the tape.

Now, for even more detailed information, go read Michelle Malkin’s trifecta of scoops (with Davos moderator David Gergen, Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd).

If Eason Jordan is not lying, and US Troops really did target journalists, then why hasn’t Mr. Jordan’s news dynasty reported on the story? Maybe because he has no facts. Which would make his statements libelous and slanderous. Mr. Jordan should resign or be fired (just as Mr. Rather at CBS has done in disgrace). And every news organization in the US should be hounding Davos to release the tape.

Oh, and if you believe that the anti-US military bias is confined to the top of CNN, think again. Chris Cramer, managing editor of CNN’s International news division and one of Eason Jordan’s top cronies told a seminar of media editors for the Crimes of War Project in 2002:

And I was released after 27 hours into the hands of the Metropolitan Police in London and two days later into a dreadful bunch of terrorists called the SAS, who were probably worse than the terrorists inside the Iranian embassy.

There’s much more about the Chris Cramer part of the story at CaptainsQuarters and at Slublog…go read all of it.

UPDATE: JustOneMinute reports that Senator Chris Dodd is calling for Davos to release the tape.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Wednesday, February 9th, 2005 | Trackback |