Gannon vs. Eason

[BurtWorm]

I'll bet most DUers are scratching their heads over that: Eason? Who's Eason.

Over in right-wingville, Eason is the issue du jour.

At Davos, Eason Jordan of CNN made an off-the-record remark that US soldiers had killed 12 journalists, which some observers (including Barney Frank, interestingly) interpreted as an accusation. Jordan denies this now--especially now that he's been whacked by the attack of the right-wing bloggers.

I bring this up because we might be rudely awoken this weekend to discover that Eason has overtaken Gannon as the issue de jour among journalists, who will be joining along with their conservative brethren in demanding the head of the head of CNN news--even if what Jordan said is plainly true.

I sadly predict that some pundit, this weekend or sometime next week, will point out the "distinction" between the gravity of right-wing blogging and the frivolity of left wing blogging. See how the left wastes its ammo on an inconsequential fraud while the right targets the very center of media power, he or she will say. Then Gannon will go the way of James Bath, down into the memory hole. A new Talon shill will warm the seat Gannon left vacant, and a righter-wing exec will warm the one left empty by Eason.


PS: Here's the blog that opened Eason up for attack:

http://www.forumblog.org/blog/2005/01/do_us_troops_ta.html

[Redneck Socialist]

1. Gannon vs. Eason

Rich Gannon vs. Tony Eason?

Gannon hands down.

:silly:

Sorry. I'll go away now.

[BurtWorm]

2. Danny Schechter's account of his appearance on Hannity and Colmes

on this issue is here:

http://www.newsdissector.org/blog/2005/02/09/#1052


Here's a taste:

CNN was not interested in taking on this fight.

But Fox News was. Fox is always at war with CNN which it brands as a liberal network, a label CNN does not want or like. And so Fox scheduled a segment and asked if I was interested. When I told them I had a film documenting the attack on the Palestine Hotel, they were doubly interested. Frozen out by CNN and most TV networks who we bombarded with Info on WMD (save Court TV) I entered the Fox arena the way Christians were fed to the lions.

Needless to say Fox wanted to trash Eason, not the killing of journalists. They showed a very clip of my film with the sound muted but I did get to make a few points and plug the movie the best I could expect in circumstances of hostility..

Sean Hannity took some predictable whacks along with Brent Bozell but I held my ground and was still standing at the bell. I would score the round as a draw.

It was hard to shift the conversation back to the real issue – the killing of journalists and not what Eason Jordan said or didn't say – no one there seemed to know or really care in what was really a bash CNN exercise. You can read what some Fox regulars thought of my performance in today's letters section.

[understandinglife]

3. I think we can readily convert that into a tag-team nightmare for the ...

....neoconsters.

U.S. Accused of Lying About Its Troops Killing Journalists in Iraq
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/16/1524222
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21157/

Rove best call Fox and tell'um to drop it because on this one I think Jordan and CNN have more than enough information to enable them to kick butt.

Peace.


HOW DO YOU LIKE BEING A CITIZEN OF A ROGUE SUPER_POWER?"

[LostInAnomie]

4. Some guy on Tweety's show last weekend was talking about this...

... he was from the Weekly Standard (hardly a liberal voice) and from the way he made it sound it could turn out to be a BIG story. The actual story not who or how it was broken.

[BurtWorm]

5. Which story? The Eason Jordan is a traitor story?

Or the one Jordan was hinting at: that the US has deliberately killed journalists in Iraq?

[LostInAnomie]

6. Soldiers killing journalists.