Rebecca MacKinnon, a former CNN reporter, says the description of CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan’s remarks at the World Economic Forum that we quoted yesterday is accurate: RConversation: Blogstorm descending on CNN.

Right-wing blogs, including Little Green Footballs, have moved their sights from CBS to CNN. At the center of the blogstorm are comments made by my former boss Eason Jordan at Davos, in which he alleged that the U.S. military had been targeting journalists in Iraq. See the original post about it by Rony Abovitz (founder of the digital surgery company Z-Kat, attending the forum as a “tech pioneer”), which he posted on the Forumblog - an “unnoficial” blog where World Econ Forum participants posted their impressions and views about sessions they attended. The official WEF summary does not mention Eason’s remarks, and there is no transcript or webcast. But I was in the room and Rony’s account is consistent with what I heard. I was also contributing to the Forumblog, but to be honest, Jordan happens to be my former boss who promoted me and defended me in some rather sticky situations after my reporting angered the Chinese government. As CNN’s “senior statesman” over the years, Eason has done some things I agreed with and other things I wondered about. But at least when it came to China, he was no apologist and defended my reports on human rights abuses and political dissent. So I don’t feel that I’m in a position to speak objectively on this issue, especially since I haven’t been in Iraq and don’t know the real situation on the ground. I would very much like to hear from other journalists working in Iraq. I’d like to hear, particularly, from other CNN reporters working in Iraq. Whether they’ll be willing to speak out publicly on this issue is doubtful, but maybe others will. Maybe we’ll hear from some of them anonymously. Maybe Kevin Sites and other journalists blogging from Iraq will let us know what they think.