The bloggers keep a swarmin’, but as was shown on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show this afternoon, the MSM hasn’t “kicked the tires & lit the fires” on this one yet. Hugh described his taping earlier today for the Sunday Chis Matthews Show where he drops the Jordan bomb on the panel and they are all shocked — none of them having heard anything about it. Then later he talks with the FOXNews Beltway Boys, Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, and Fred knew about it, but Mort hadn’t heard a word.

The Washington Times ran an opinion piece about it today, here is an excerpt:

… At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during a discussion on media and democracy, Mr. Jordan apparently told the audience that “he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted,” according to a report on the forum’s Web site (www.forumblog.org). The account was corroborated by the Wall Street Journal and National Review Online, although no transcript of the discussion has surfaced. Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher Dodd were also present, but calls to their offices were not returned in time for publication. …

Doubtlessly, Mr. Jordan’s unsubstantiated comments play well for CNN’s international anti-American audience, who grasp at anything damaging to America’s reputation. If the CPJ information is wrong, however, we’d like to see the evidence from Mr. Jordan. Otherwise, how can CNN justify keeping on staff someone who maligns our troops with rumor and innuendo? “

The blogs are still all over it here, here & here . . . heck, almost everywhere in the center-right blogs!

The question begged is — Will Eason Jordan be totally destroyed by the bloggers and talk radio before television network news and the major newspapers bother to cover it? If that happens, can CNN ever recover, or will they join CBS in the cosmic-network-news recycle bin? (db)

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