3 news stories on Google news (2 the same from CNN)

http://news.google.com/news?q=Eason+Jordan+Davos+target+journalists&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

/got no html skilz

Your link leads to a story on Frontpage Magazine and one story on Powerline.

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I see no CNN stories.

duh.

I am dumb.

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At first I thought this headline was about the Golson flap! Heh.

Ace,

I posted on Feb. 1 at Roger L. Simon's the challenge as to when anyone thought that the MSM would cover this story.

And yes, we all are still waiting for the NYT to break this story.

And yes again, the MSM were like flies-on-stink over SquareBobGayGate.

Blech.

The self-imposed blackout of this story is as telling as the revelation that Eason Jordan has repeatedly disparaged the US and Israel with no censure or real consequences.

As is now well known, Eason Jordan admitted that CNN misrepresented, for 12 years, the brutality of Saddam's regime as a return for access to Iraq. Hell, it was even in the NYT!

Nice.

And we are supposed to believe what anyone on CNN tells us?

Or the BBC?

Or NPR? (e.g. Linda Fasulo)

Sorry, but that train left the station, and we're not on it.

You site is the first to recognize that the "elite media" is really a group of self-interested silly people pursuing misguided ways to get noticed. The ethics of good journalism are largely forgotten; the news ethics (or lack thereof) are straight out of Hollywood: Look at Me ! Give me an Award ! Let me Criticise ! It's the Only Way I have to Look Intelligent! Look at Me! Thanks for a Great Site.

Peter's right. As Rush always notes, you can go to any journalism school and the students will always tell you that they want to be journalists so they can "change the world." Interpreted into standard English, that's "become famous." It's nothing but ego-stroking.

having used up all my intellectual ability on the other thread (see first few posts above for proof), all I can say is, MeTooThen:

LOL

"SquareBobGayGate"

That's both teh funny AND teh ghey.

Hey ace, did you ever see the p-p-p-powerbook stuff?

http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/

it still makes me laugh so hard I cry

Slicin' post, Ace. Are you sure you're sick? If so, wanna share those meds?

Ditto Peter's comments above.

The deafening silence on the part of the MSM is, I'd say, sadly predictable. In fact, I'd go so far as to say they're all deep into a game of holding their breath, waiting for someone else to be the first to say they've had enough and need to take a gulp of air. When that moment occurs, then the floodgates will open. We saw it during the Swift Boats dealio (and when they finally came up for air, it was savage the messengers, not the message!), and I suspect they'll continue to circle the wagons in defense of their monolithic media empires until reality intrudes irreversibly.

Sad. Pathetic. Utterly crass, and lately commonplace behavior on their part.

In fact, the first priorities of anyone in a corporate culture are 1) protect and advance your own career; 2) curry favor with those who can help with priority 1; 3) protect and advance the corporation generally, as that will advance priorities 1 and 2; and 4) protect and advance the industry generally, as you never know when you'll wind up working for another corporation within the industry, and doing so advances priorities 1, 2, and 3.

Oh my.

That laser beam of lucidity turned me on so much.

Let me know when you want to spawn some offspring, Ace, and I'll tell you when my husband is out of town.

I don't know how much longer the media is going to be able to bury this one, Ace.

The blogger who writes Sisyphean Musings just contacted Mark Adams, head of media at the WEF in Davos. Adams agreed to send a videotaped copy of Jordan's presentation to him.

Once you have the video/sound bite feed, it will spread like wildfire over the net. Fox News will be guaranteed to run with it (surely Brit Hume at least), and the much-mocked (by Goldstein and Allah, at least) Hugh Hewitt has already put a comment you can read there promising to run the audio clip 24/7 once it becomes available.

The media has tried to sit on this as long as possible, and they could do that so long as no concrete evidence surfaced. But now that it seems the tape will be coming to light (and BLOGGER will break the story! Unless the MSM kicks it up between now and Wednesday), they won't be able to do that anymore. It will take on a life of its own.

Of course, maybe once we hear Jordan's comments he'll be exonerated....nah.

I went all the way out to page 9 of the Google search and still found no MSM coverage of Eason Jordan's remarks.

Nice post. I remember a similar slow response on Howell Raines fuckups.

They got each others' back.

As one of the local Iraq War vets, I confess, when I heard Fox News had Laurie Dhue in town, I definitely attempted to target her. I did not have the sort of "direct action" mission in mind that this clown accuses us of, but oh, it would have been a crowning glory of my life.....ahhhh, happy thoughts.

SGT Dan,

Lol. You bring a new meaning to 'high value' targets! And as a guy with some time in the arty I thought 'fire for effect' :)

I was running infantry recon at the time, and figured I'd go with the "one shot" credo of the sniper section....

Ace: Great Minds... Insta-Man has a similar take.

Well, you've certainly got it all figured out, don't ya?

Congratulations.

Well, there are a couple of columns out there in the formal media... and I sent one on to Nealenews.com for broader exposure....

Anyone have a hotline to Matt Drudge? Everyone forgets that part of the Rathergate story... Drudge linked to Powerline and it couldn't be ignored any longer.

Major media, as collective brand, depends on an industry consensus view for each story to protect the value of the brands. People trust a major media sources because none of the other major media ever questions them. Until recently, all the major media all told the same story. It creates the illusion of an omniscient industry.

When major media questions major media then it shatters the illusion. Consumers don't know which version to trust. The major media, as an industry wide brand, loses values.

They have a intense interest in not questioning each other to closely.

Ace,

Instalanch!!!!!

Shannon Love,

Yes, it is a systems problem which requires a systems solution.

But individuals within those systems (journalists, editors, etc) are not it seems, free, or appropriately incentivized to make the necesarry changes that will allow for their brands' sucessful adaptation.

But...Kurtz has responded...;)