The Blogosphere stikes again - Empire beware!!
If you are almost entirely dependent on MSM for your news (and you wouldn't be here if you were), then the story about and behind Eason Jordan's resignation at CNN is going to be something of a mystery to you.To summarize briefly, at a closed conference/workshop of journalists and politicians (in Switzerland), Eason stated as fact that US military forces were deliberately targeting journalist in Iraq, had captured and tortured others, was overall behaving just like the terrorists.
One participant challenged him to prove this, a request supported after the fact by the US politicians that were attendees (I'm still having a hard time wondering why they weren't the first to challenge this assertion).
Michelle Malkin, The Captians Quarters, Instapundit, and other blogs picked up on the original posting by Rony Abovitz, keeping the pressure on and preventing the story from fading away (giving it legs to borrow from MSM jargon).
MSM coverage to this point has been tepid and tends to accuse the blogosphere as much or more for pressing the story, than Eason for making proveably false statements. The reason for this reluctance is clear; it is proof that MSM no longer operates in a vacumn, free to espouse opinion as news without challenge. It is the breath of accountability, something to balance MSM heretofore unchallenged unaccountability.
The ultimate outcome, to this point, has been Eason Jordan's resignation from CNN. This is a first step, but I don't believe even this indicent is enough to shake MSM from it doldrums, from its perception as a priviliged class of elites.
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