The second shoe has fallen in the story of Eason Jordan’s allegation that the American military had targeted journalists in Iraq: CNN’s Chief News Excutive Eason Jordan has resigned. Joe Gandelman, as usual, has excellent commentary and a run-down of responses from the blogosphere.
I said my piece on this here and I won’t elaborate on it (well, not much). We’re still left with questions:
- Why didn’t Mr. Jordan just acknowledge his mistake?
- Why didn’t Big Journalism run with this story? Now, as Hugh Hewitt has pointed out, the networks, which had yet to address the issue, are now in the pickle of needing to report the resignation of the head of a news organization for a scandal they never reported to their viewers.
- Is there some larger purpose served by this story and the Jeff Gannon story, which the left side of the blogosphere is crowing about? Or is it all just counting coup?
Why is it that only the blogosphere seems to care about Eason and Gannon- and each ‘side’ only about one?
It’s a measure of how out of touch poliblogs are w the real world, since both tales rate little more than a page 17 story in the papers, and barely any mention in the MSM.
We have a war, Soc Sec hijinks, runaway deficits that will impoverish our grandchildren and a cowardly news producer who won’t stand behind his words and a sicko pervert Right Wing shill are BIG stories? Mama Mia! DAN
I’m with you, Dan. That’s the underlying point of my post. And I’m preparing a longer post that addresses precisely the points you’ve made. The unwillingness or inability to treat events in their proper proportion is evidence of a serious psychological or spiritual problem.
And I also agree that the war is the big story. While Social Security is a serious issue, I’m pretty confident that wiser heads will prevail. I’ve written my Senators and Congressman and I have little doubt that they agree with me and will vote accordingly. And I’ve expressed my opinion here on The Glittering Eye. I’ve done what I can.
While the deficit is of concern, it’s been that way nearly all my life. You might like to take a look at this post from Econopundit. It puts things into a little better perspective.