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Originally posted by sgtclub
the Jordan Eason scandal? Can you catch me up?
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As far as I can tell -- and this is from a little Googling in response to your post, since I hadn't heard of Jordan Eason or this "scandal" until you mentioned it -- you have a couple right-wing bloggers with little or no journalistic credibility (e.g., Hugh Hewitt) beating Eason up for comments that he has clarified. He initially said that the U.S. military targeted journalists. (I can't find even a quotation of his remarks on line, but this is what Hugh Hewitt says, so take it with a grain of salt.) He now has said that journalists have died at the hands of the U.S. military -- which is undeniably true -- but that he didn't mean to say they were being targeted. From what little I know of Hewitt, I understand why he'd rather flog this story than others, but what's the scandal?
eta: This story has better reporting. If Barney Frank is "agog" about Eason's comments, maybe there's something to this.
But club, if you think this shows some kind of lefty bias on the part of CNN, then doesn't
this story establish right-wing bias at the New York Times?
And thank God no one here is talking about Ward Churchill.
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