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We’ve been tracking the U.N.’s sex scandal in the Congo. But over the weekend, the other U.N. sex scandal came to a head.
Top U.N. official Ruud Lubbers resigned Sunday over long-brewing accusations of sexual harassment from at least four women, including an American woman who worked on the staff UN High Commissioner for [...]

…but not of Eason Jordan’s remarks.
It’s the Larry Summers brouhaha.
Bowing to pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering. The transcript revealed several provocative statements by Dr. Summers about [...]

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Embarrassing, yes. But good for them.
Previously:
The Los Angeles Times’ weak correction

In the wake of Eason Jordan’s comments in Davos, Al Jazeera’s English web site has published an animated cartoon (flash format) by Shujaat Ali showing a journalist seriously wounded or killed in the midst of a shootout in Iraq (”The Price of Iraq Policy,” Feburary 15, 2005). It is strongly implied that American soldiers, [...]

The Los Angeles Times runs a lame correction regarding its Eason Jordan coverage. Reminds me of Slate’s awful correction a few months ago. What is the point of running a correction if the correction is as bad as the original error?

In case you were stuck in the remotest corner of the Himalayas over the weekend, CNN exec Eason Jordan resigned Friday night. Which can mean only one thing…time for a bitter MSM backlash against the blogosphere!
Here’s my column for the N.Y. Post today tackling the “lynch mob/bloodhounds/fill-in-the-ad-hominem-here” meme that started spreading over the [...]

Trey Jackson has the video of Howard Kurtz’s treatment of the Eason Jordan resignation, among other things. Blogger Jeff Jarvis did an excellent job. Bill Press was an annoyance. Captain’s Quarters liveblogged it.
As Jarvis said: “The story’s not over.”
Update: Transcript is here.

Inspired by Kipling and Jordan, Gerard van der Leun presents: The Law of the Blogger
Also inspired, Molten Thought zaps CNN.
Ace needs money. Not for bandwidth.
Wuzzadem tries Googling for Eason Jordan news. Comes up with very strange results. Hah.

As noted below, CNN officials are still in full-blown spin mode regarding the events that led to Eason Jordan’s resignation. They aren’t the only ones. Check out this attack on bloggers by Bertrand Pecquerie (bpecquerie@wan.asso.fr), the Director of the World Editors Forum, the organization for editors within the World Association of Newspapers (WAN):
Eason Jordan [...]

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has published a fascinating article about Eason Jordan’s resignation. It contains statements by several current and former CNN employees defending Jordan and denouncing bloggers who called attention to his remarks in Davos. To read it you have to register or use bugmenot to get log in information.
Here are some excerpts, along [...]

For those of us in the information business, this is truly an earth-shaking time. Who would have imagined that the downfall of one of the world’s most powerful news executives would be precipitated by an ordinary citizen blogging his eyewitness report at Davos in the wee hours of the morning on Jan. 27? It’s simply [...]

Ramesh Ponnuru says he’s hearing Jordan has stepped down. Checking it out…
Update: Ponnuru got the scoop, now AP is reporting it:
CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits
DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press
NEW YORK - CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. [...]

Easongate, Eason’s Fables, Easonquiddick…whatever you want to call it, it’s still alive. Eason Jordan is still hiding behind CNN spin doctors. Still no transcript. Still no tape. It’s not just right-wing hounds who are “baying.” Boston Phoenix writer Dan Kennedy wants to see it. Jay Rosen and Captain’s Quarters, and LGF tackle the Wall Street [...]

There’s a lot of new stuff and a weird turn from the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
Bret Stephens’ curious little account in the WSJ does not, contrary to the subtitle of the piece, settle the question of what exactly Eason Jordan said and how he said it. It’s interesting, isn’t it, that Stephens does not [...]

My column on Easongate is up. It’s a very basic primer for a non-blog audience.
One of the points I tried to hammer home is the need to understand the context in which Jordan’s remarks were made. The point is that Jordan’s remarks in Davos weren’t just an innocent slip of the tongue, [...]

Well, well. Have you heard? Ward (the 9/11 victims are “little Eichmanns”) Churchill now says he mourns for all those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But here’s the non-apology apology Churchill gives for his remarks:
“I wouldn’t retract it. I would explain it better,” Ward Churchill told The Associated Press.
Fake, but accurate. Wrong, but [...]

Jim Geraghty asks a good question.
Meanwhile, there’s a petition to release the Davos transcript.
The scandal has stoked Cassandra’s creative juices at Villanous Company and Dan’s at Riehl World View.
Jeff G. takes a pass.
Confederate Yankee takes on “Err” Jordan and CNN.
Jane at Armies of Liberation doesn’t like the -gate suffix. One of Bill at INDC Journal’s [...]

As I noted below, Howard Kurtz reports that Eason Jordan has created a list of “incidents” in Iraq. The purpose and contents of the list are not clear, but it may be surmised that it is a list of journalists killed by U.S. soliders. Apparently the list is designed to bolster the view that our [...]

His piece is up here…
…Well, that was underwhelming. Not much new in the story (except the cozy access to Jordan) that you didn’t already read around the blogosphere. Hugh Hewitt gives it a “C-.”
Kurtz appears to buy into his CNN boss’s spin that he “never once in my life thought anyone from the U.S. [...]

Rodger Morrow points out this first-hand account of the Eason brouhaha from Justin Vaisse, a French- and American-trained historian affiliated with the Brookings Institution. (Also noted earlier at La Shawn Barber.) Mick Stockinger first noticed the Vaisse account during a search for international commentary on Easongate and posted a translation of Vaisse’s blog:
It must [...]

Well, his spokesman does, anyway. In response to my request for comment from the Connecticut Democrat about the Davos panel, Sen. Chris Dodd’s press spokesman, Marvin Fast, sent me the following brief statement:
“Senator Dodd was not on the panel but was in the audience when Mr. Jordan spoke. He – like panelists Mr. Gergen and [...]

David Gergen, who moderated the Davos panel on which CNN exec Eason Jordan appeared, spoke with me by phone this afternoon about the controversy.
First, Gergen confirmed that Eason Jordan did in fact initially assert that journalists in Iraq had been targeted by military “on both sides.” Gergen, who has known Jordan for some 20 years, [...]

Just got off the phone with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who spoke with me about Easongate. Rep. Frank was on the panel at Davos.
Rep. Frank said Eason Jordan did assert that there was deliberate targeting of journalists by the U.S. military. After Jordan made the statement, Rep. Frank said he immediately “expressed deep skepticism.” [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on the Pentagon to discipline Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who earlier this week said it is “fun to shoot some people.”
“We do not need generals who treat the grim business of war as a sporting event,” said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. “These disturbing remarks are indicative [...]