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To: Sig who wrote (100019)	2/12/2005 7:43:46 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793743

Jordan mentioned this organization CPJ...Look around at the site...who sits on the BOD, who are the Donors, why they are in existence.... You WILL be surprised, and I was too!!! What proof do these people, including Cronkite and Rather, etc...use for their numbers?????? IF the people on this committee were so good, then why did Jordan hide the real news out of Iraq for 11+ years??? Committee to protect journalists cpj.org cpj.org cpj.org CPJ at a Glance The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1981. We promote press freedom worldwide by defending the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. 888888888888888888 CNN HEAD QUITS By PAUL THARP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ nypost.com February 12, 2005 -- The red-faced news chief of CNN, Eason Jordan, resigned yesterday after making outrageous claims that American troops deliberately tracked down and killed certain journalists in Iraq. Jordan put his foot in his mouth two weeks ago during a panel discussion at a world economic summit in Davos, Switzerland. He startled his listeners when he said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been deliberately targeted. Only one panelist, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) challenged him, causing Jordan to start backtracking to retract what he'd said. There's no transcript of the remarks, but a video does exist which Davos forum sponsors won't release. Jordan's remarks triggered a widespread attack by more than 400 bloggers, led by a Miami businessman Rony Abovitz, who heard Jordan's comments firsthand. The bloggers demanded CNN fire Jordan. Jordan said in a memo to fellow staffers yesterday that he was resigning to keep CNN from being "unfairly tarnished." Jordan tried to distance himself from his blunder by explaining that he meant to say — the journalists were killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and were killed accidentally by friendly fire. "I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise," Jordan said in his memo to CNN staffers. There have been 36 journalists and 18 support staff killed in Iraq since March 2003, said Joel Campagna, Middle East program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. It has been determined that U.S. forces were responsible for 11 of the deaths, he said. "We have not concluded that U.S. forces have deliberately targeted journalists," Campagna said. "But we remain very concerned about whether U.S. forces are adequately working to insure that journalists who are civilians are not harmed in areas of conflict." 8888888888888888888 NYT re Jordan and CNN... nytimes.com Asked if Mr. Jordan had been under any pressure from the network to resign, Ms. Robinson said the decision had been his. She said Mr. Walton, the CNN president, was unavailable for further comment. Mr. Jordan did not return a message left on his cellphone seeking comment. Mr. Jordan, who once had day-to-day responsibility for CNN's international coverage, is no stranger to controversy. In April 2003, he wrote an Op-Ed article in The New York Times saying that CNN had essentially suppressed news of brutalities in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, saying he thought the reports could have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on CNN's Baghdad staff. "I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me," he wrote. "Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely."