Eason Jordon and the Unwritten Blacklist
American Digest
The Eason Jordan / American Soldiers Assassinate Reporters story has been running outside of the mainstream media for well over a week. There is a videotape, as yet in an undisclosed location, and there could be a transcript of that tape.
Major media hasn't touched this one at all, as a brief search under Eason Jordan on Google News will reveal.
Frustration is mounting in the blogsphere as the point man on this story, Hugh Hewitt , states:
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You can't blast heroes as killers and walk off the field to cocktail parties in Davos and pretend nothing happened.
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Sigh. Sorry, Hugh, but as a matter of fact you can. Especially if you occupy a position like that of Eason Jordan.
I have a lot of respect for the work, writing, passion and positions of Hewitt, but surely he is being disingenuous here. Surely he knows about the "Unwritten Blacklist" of mainstream media today. Unlike the oooga-booga Hollywood Blacklist still used today to convince credulous freshmen that something under the Conservative Bed is always drooling and stalking their freedom, the "Unwritten Blacklist" is quite real and quite tangible. And its primary function is to keep the MSM gravy train moving down the track.
To take on an Eason Jordan and expose him would be a noble thing for a major journalist to do, but it would also put a large check mark against his name on the Unwritten Blacklist as a traitor. Even if Jordan were brought down, especially if Jordan were brought down, the journalists behind it would find their chances for other lucrative job offers, for advancement, and for invitations to all the right parties in New York, Washinton, and the Hamptons severely curtailed. Their actions against an Eason Jordan would be quietly noted by those in hiring and assignment positions higher up the media food chain. After all, to take on one is to take on all.
It used to be the case that if you "struck at a prince" you had to be sure to kill him. Things are not that simple in the upper realms of the unelected powerbroker's of MSM. Now if you strike at a prince you have to kill all the others around them. Unless, of course, you don't care about appearing on cable news shows to sooth your vanity and pump your book, or care about landing that book deal to begin with, or care about someday having a show of your own, or care about advancing at your institution or receiving a better offer from another newspaper, magazine, television network. Strike at someone like Eason Jordon and all these things will, somehow, just not be offered to you.
And, in their hearts, journalists and columnists understand this. Eason Jordan is a member of a caste system and that system punishes those who tell tales out of school by labeling them "untouchable."
At the end of the day, nothing's going to happen with the Jordan story. The videotape will be lost and the transcript will not surface, and all will move on to the next four-hour news cycle. Jordan will be back working the room and being worked next year at Davos.
You see you can blast heroes as killers and walk off the field to cocktail parties in Davos and pretend nothing happened if you and your cohort control the careers of all that might expose you.
That's how, absent a net worth of at least $500 million, you get to Davos in the first place.
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