An Eason Jordan Accusation Sighting!
Well, we can up the number of media outlets who have mentioned the Eason Jordan accusations to three.
Joining Fox News (in a blurb on Britt Hume’s “Grapevine”) and the Washington Times Editorial yesterday, is Jack Kelley in today’s Toledo Blade
In a column dedicated to the MSM’s apparent rush to report anything an insurgent says while ignoring other stories, Kelly notes the GI Cody story and the story of the faked videotape of an insurgent missile bringing down a British C-130.
At the end of the column, he mentions the Eason Jordan accusation.
The scandalous remarks of Eason Jordan, CNN’s top news executive, last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the failure of the major media to report them suggest the distortions are deliberate.
Mr. Jordan told a panel that the U.S. military had killed a dozen journalists in Iraq, and that they had been deliberately targeted. When challenged, Mr. Jordan could provide no evidence to support the charge, and subsequently lied about having made it, though the record shows he had made a similar charge a few months before, and also earlier had falsely accused the Israeli military of targeting journalists.
Mr. Jordan’s slander has created a firestorm in the blogosphere, but has yet to be mentioned in the “mainstream” media.
Gee, I wonder why not.
So there you go. It’s only part of a larger column and it’s an opinion column, as opposed to an actual news story, but it’s there.
I, personally, would have preferred Kelly give this story a touch more importance than the final, almost “throwaway” mention in a weekend column, but given the way this story has managed to hide better than a bogeyman in a kid’s closet, I’m surprised it got mentioned at all.
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Category: Easongate
Mentioned at the end of the column will be the last thought the reader gets and may therefore be the thought that sticks. That is if the column holds the readers attention that long…
That's my concern. Usually, in journalistic writing, the important stuff goes up front and you close with a summary of some brief sort, or at leat a line that brings the lede "full circle".
Maybe folks will remember it, maybe not. I'd bet they'd remember it more if it were the central part of the story instead of what I read as a "oh yeah, and this happened, too" couple of paragraphs.