According to Sisyphean Musings, the World Economic Forum will not release their recording of the discussion in which Eason Jordan accused the US military of deliberately targeting journalists.

Jim Geraghty has a lot of interesting stuff on the story today, including a well-done rebuttal of another muddle-headed piece by Jude Nagurney Camwell—who employs the shopworn disingenuous technique of cherry-picking an extreme-sounding comment from one reader (out of thousands of comments daily) in order to smear LGF. (And as several readers have pointed out, the comment she picked from “TimK” wasn’t actually extreme at all, and certainly did not warrant Camwell’s absurd accusation of “blog thuggery.”)

Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who has a professional association with CNN, weighs in with a noncommittal piece that comes off as a weak semi-defense of Eason Jordan: Eason Jordan, Quote, Unquote.

And with that, I suspect mainstream media is hoping this annoying controversy will now fade quietly away. But the issue of CNN’s appalling bias is going to keep coming up, because (as I’ve written several times before), the problem goes much deeper than Eason Jordan. At the same News Xchange conference in Portugal where Jordan told the audience that journalists had been “tortured” by the US military, another CNN executive, Chris Cramer, said that journalists were being “deliberately targeted for seeking out the truth.”

UPDATE at 2/8/05 3:27:52 pm:

By the way, I’d like to publicly offer to host the video or audio of the Eason Jordan discussion in Davos, if anyone reading this happens to have a copy.