Blogs vs. the Bigs
filed in Commentary, News on Feb.11, 2005
Hugh Hewitt takes an interesting (and short) look at how internet blogs have been bringing the Eason Jordan (of CNN) flap to light. Worth glancing at, if for no other reason than to keep an eye on a growing trend: blogs trumping the big media not only at their own game, but at just about every game.
Updated
Larry Kudlow in NRO offers his take on this story; Rathergate 2 in the making?
February 12th, 2005 on 1:53:01 am
That sure didn’t take long.
February 12th, 2005 on 11:16:50 am
What a steaming sack of horse poo — Jordan’s comments and that story makes it sound like there’s some sort of great “misunderstanding” about what he supposedly said at Davos, that he (and through him, CNN) has somehow become the victim of some “miscommunication” or “misunderstanding” on the part of the rest of the world about what he said. Blah blah blah: release the tape of his comments. The Davos officials apparently are refusing to do it, and Jordan himself sure hasn’t seemed to be in any great anxious hurry to get it done — which is what anyone would expect him to do if what he had said actually wasn’t as inflammatory as the blogs are reporting it to be and all of this actually was a misunderstanding. Are we to really believe that he’s flushing his job of 23 years because lots of people just misunderstood him, when there is a tape that could easily show what he “actually” said and clear things up, if only we could get it shown twice an hour for 11 days on CNN? Riiiight.
Is his resigning the best thing for him to do? Yes, I think so — but he’s still managing to do it under the auspices of one more misrepresentation of the facts. Brilliant! Sayanora, pal, and don’t let the door hit your *&# on the way out.