A CNN executive, Eason Jordan, has made several claims that coalition forces in general and the US military in particular are purposefully targeting and torturing reporters. The complete run down of what CQ has taken to calling Eason’s Fables can be found here and here.
I think Jordan is a liar, or as a politician might say disingenuous. I think he’s a liar for two main reasons:
1. After the lunatic ravings of Ted Turner on religion and the Nazis, anything that comes out of the executive suite at CNN cannot be taken seriously. Consequently, nothing that is aired on CNN should be taken seriously.
2. If the US military were targeting reporters, there would be no news reports from Baghdad, because all the reporters would be dead.
That is not say that Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department couldn’t come up with good and sufficient reason to dispatch a few member of the terrorist’s propaganda arm know as the mainstream American media. But that would be like smothering your uncle with a pillow on his deathbed to get the golf clubs he promised you in his will. The cost benefit ratio is so out of line as to be ridiculous. As Jordan’s comments indicate, the mainstream media is dying of natural causes and needs no help from a professional American military to speed the process along.
Another indication that the mainstream media is headed for life support is their willingness to ignore this story because it places one of their own in the worst possible light. Had Jordan’s comments originated from one of the blog sites above, no doubt Pete, Brian and Dan would have closed their nightly news reads with a comment on how deplorable the comment was and an indication of why the blogosphere cannot be taken seriously.
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