New media swarm takes down old media CNN news boss

[HR_Pufnstuf]

The new media swarm effect of the blogosphere, which -- apart from Matt Drudge -- figured on no major radars before the 2004 election race in the US, has claimed the scalp of one of mainstream media's top news bosses: Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive.

The development follows by only five months the "early retirement" of CBS News anchor Dan Rather in the wake of a largely blog-based campaign -- Rathergate -- surrounding that network's faulty handling of forged documents in a major pre-election story about George Bush.

During a 28 January discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Jordan apparently repeated a claim that has gained wide currency in the tabloid left, that American soldiers had deliberately targeted and killed journalists in Iraq.

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The new media cometh and lay wasteth.

[imenja]

1. so what are we going to do about Fox?

[chicagojoe]

2. They won't let me say what I want to do to Fox on this site.

[HR_Pufnstuf]

3. One way...

...would be to create a searchable text database of ever quote every mentioned by any talking head on that channel, if someone wanted the tivo project of the millennium. It would be a great aid in researching the propaganda they feed the sheep, particularly if you start to see a run up to an Iran War.

We need the ability to hold them accountable for what they say/do at a later date.

Another way is to expose stories that are beyond their ability to keep in spin. This GannonGate will test that theory.

Kudos to http://www.americablog.org/ on that coverage.

You go.

[smiley]

4. The best way would be to...

persuade people to quit watching the television.

[imenja]

5. they lie so much

they are a thousand things to get them on. I remember when the DC area snipers were about to be caught, they insisted they had reliable information that they were Islamic terrorists trained at a camp in the US South. The whole channel is fictional from what I can tell.

[chicagojoe]

6. Whenever FOX gets caught,

they fall back on "well, it's commentary, not necessarily journalism".

[whathappened]

7. could be wrong

but sems to me when the war first started , jr. did tell any news people that wer'nt on his list would not be out of harms way , they had no buisness being there and to get out , i guess jr. did'nt want any real news people there who would report what was really going on there , now i could be wrong , just going back to memory bank and it just don't serve me well sometimes