The Return of Eason Jordan
Charles Johnson
Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 7:51 pm PST • Views: 656
You have got to be kidding me.
Former CNN News Chief To Launch ‘IraqSlogger’ Site.
NEW YORK — For the past four years there has been no shortage of news and views on Iraq and the long-running war there. What’s been missing: a one-stop-shopping clearinghouse for nonpartisan information, including material coming out of Iraq itself from natives of that country, not from foreign correspondents.
Now that need is finally being addressed in the form of IraqSlogger, in Beta at [Link: www.iraqslogger.com,…] but due to be officially launched next week. Its director is the former CNN news division chief, Eason Jordan, who quit that post suddenly in 2005 after 23 years with the company. The name of his new venture, he says, was inspired by a Donald Rumsfeld reference to this war being a “long, hard slog.”
The concept, Jordan tells E&P, “grew out of the feeling that I think many people shared that there was no one place to go. Individual news organizations do terrific work but you can spend the better part of a day going from one site to another and one TV outlet to another,” searching for a full picture.
“Iraq is the story of our time,” he declares. His goal for the site is for it to become nothing less than “the world’s premier Iraq-focused information source” — and with no “political slant.”
Previously at LGF:
Outrage of the Day
Seismic Changes at CNN
CNN Exec: US Military Killed 12 Journalists
CNN: ‘Targeted for Seeking the Truth’
Eason Jordan’s Remarks Corroborated
CNN Tries to Apply a Tourniquet
Eason Jordan: Journalists Tortured by US
Eason Jordan Releases a Statement
Eason Jordan Resigns from CNN
UPDATE at 12/13/06 7:53:27 pm:
Reported at Editor & Publisher by discredited hack Greg Mitchell.
UPDATE at 12/14/06 7:56:33 am:
Jordan has offered to pay for Michelle Malkin and Curt from Flopping Aces to go to Iraq and join in the hunt for Jamil Hussein.
Frank says: