Accused
I have a funny feeling that this story about CNN executive Eason Jordan is going to become a very big thing. You've heard about this wretched turd, right? He's accused the US military of "targeting" journalists for death in Iraq ---and without any evidence of it.

Lots of the best bloggers out there are on this dope, but here's something from Captain Ed that you should read:

Why, one might ask, would the executive of an American news organization do this? Mainly because CNN does not compete well within the US any longer, and for good reason, as we now know. They are, however, tremendously influential internationally; they are America's BBC, in more ways than market share. In order to maintain that position, Jordan has to cultivate an image of CNN as a hypercritical gadfly to American policies, especially those of American conservatives.

I think this sums up the motivation for such slanders pretty well, but Jordan must have begun with that attitude. Remember, this is the same prick who said that CNN had sat on stories of atrocities coming out of pre-war Iraq to maintain his access to the Saddamites.

Wow. What a principled guy.