CNN does something right
This appalling report from chief news exec Eason Jordan in the New York Times (free subscription required) is hard to read, but I'm glad he did it.
Actually, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to respond to something like this - coming, as it does, from the top of a once-revered but now patently untrustworthy news organ. It's an important, courageous piece. Doesn't do anything to restore my faith in CNN, but I'm still glad Jordan decided to do it.
I guess David's "Moral means Ambivalent" nails it.
Read: The News We Kept To Ourselves
"Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff..."
Thanks to Doc for the pointer
