Who Can Really Say?

Softball Questions

The other day I tried to play catch up with the Eason Jordan story. The story has taken over a week to move beyond the blogs to the Mainstream Media rest of the world, but the cracks keep getting bigger. Today from a member of the WSJ Editorial Board, comes a brief summary, and this conclusion.

And that was it--the discussion moved on. I'll leave it to others to draw their own verdicts, but here's mine: Whether with malice aforethought or not, Mr. Jordan made a defamatory innuendo. Defamatory innuendo--rather than outright allegation--is the vehicle of mainstream media bias. Had Mr. Jordan's innuendo gone unchallenged, it would have served as further proof to the Davos elite of the depths of American perfidy. Mr. Jordan deserves some credit for retracting the substance of his remark, and some forgiveness for trying to weasel his way out of a bad situation of his own making. Whether CNN wants its news division led by a man who can't be trusted to sit on a panel and field softball questions is another matter.

Captain Ed isn't satisfied.

Posted by Peter at February 10, 2005 08:46 PM