Friday, February 11, 2005
Another one bites the dust
After taking a pounding from the entire blogosphere, Eason Jordan has finally stepped down. Now, you might have thought that after Rathergate old media figures might have figured out that evading questions with silence and bogus remarks isn't the best way to defuse a crisis. Well, you would have been wrong.
Glenn Renoldys refers people to Hugh Hewitt's book (again). Personally, I find it amazing that he has to. People like Eason Jordan are supposed to be on the cutting edge of news to be effective. People like Eason Jordan are supposed to be fair and objective in order to be effective. And people like Eason Jordan are supposed to maintain basic jornalistic principles to be effective. Jordan obviously fails on all three counts: He did not providing sources to back up is claims or a transcript or tape to prove he didn't make them; he was obviously biased as a reporter and a poor journalist because of it, and he was Hopelessly behind the curve technologically.
Poor sod.
UPDATE: TLB has the roundup here.
Glenn Renoldys refers people to Hugh Hewitt's book (again). Personally, I find it amazing that he has to. People like Eason Jordan are supposed to be on the cutting edge of news to be effective. People like Eason Jordan are supposed to be fair and objective in order to be effective. And people like Eason Jordan are supposed to maintain basic jornalistic principles to be effective. Jordan obviously fails on all three counts: He did not providing sources to back up is claims or a transcript or tape to prove he didn't make them; he was obviously biased as a reporter and a poor journalist because of it, and he was Hopelessly behind the curve technologically.
Poor sod.
UPDATE: TLB has the roundup here.
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