Charles Johnson Tue Feb 1, 2005 at 6:42 pm PST • Views: 497
Eason Jordan’s accusation that journalists have been deliberately murdered by US troops in Iraq is not the first time a CNN representative has made such a charge.
In November 2004 we covered a statement by CNN exec Chris Cramer, who’s also honorary president of the Brussels-based International News Safety Institute, when he told a broadcasting conference in Portugal that journalists were being “deliberately targeted for seeking out the truth.”
I feel it's better to sing about these things ourselves and perform them with the people who it happened to than to have some journalist one day say 'then in 1971, one time when they were at the mudshark hotel...' But people have problems with things of a glandular nature in connection with things of a musical nature. They say why, music is way up here, and glands are way down there and they can't get 'em together, but then they are hypocritical because they take a band that doesn't sing about such things directly and couches their language a little and does it with a little choreography and say that that's great and that's real rock and roll. I maintain that there's no difference, we're just honest enough to get up and say 'this is this and that's that and here you are and respond to it' and the response is 'why... I'm hip, but of course I am offended'.
Charles Johnson
Frank says: