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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (92406)	4/11/2003 2:38:47 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I'd like to know why Jordan is telling this story now. Perhaps someone else was going to tell it and he is, as you say, CHA. To my mind he made a business decision, not a moral one. It was more important to keep the Bagdhad office of CNN open, even though it was clear it would have to be a mouthpiece of the regime, than to close it down, protect as many employees as he could, and tell the world why CNN was closing it down.

To: JustTradeEm who wrote (92406)	4/11/2003 8:47:52 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Rumsfeld is giving an award winning performance as I type; it's time all media were taken to task. I don't really care if their bent is left or right; they have a responsibility to the truth ... which most have long forgotten ! Well, if you plan to give Rumsfeld the award for the always truthful comments, then you need to learn a bit more cynicism. As for "responsibility to the truth", those things are always much harder to practice than to say. And generally are so because, in any given and specific situation it turns out to be hard to know "the truth" and conscientious souls find themselves dealing, inevitably, with conflicting values--in this case, best we can tell from this op ed piece, honest reporting (let's forget something as abstract as "truth"), concern for employees' welfare, concern for corporate well being (more than a little irony for me to type that last since it doesn't rank high on my list of goods but it clearly does for Jordan and it's important to recognize that), and concern to warn folk who are threatened. I don't know whether I would have handled it the same but I can certainly appreciate that the situation was complicated. Certainly was not as simple as "truth" versus "corruption."