Was Eason Jordon paid to keep silent?

[katinmn]

Jordon is the CNN executive who a couple weeks ago said the US was targeting journalists in Iraq.

He was let go from his job almost immediately and we have not heard a peep from him since.

Most unusual.

[KharmaTrain]

1. He Can't Speak Out...

"Wouldn't be prudent"...hurt his golden parachute ya know. Jordan claims his statements were mis-represented (aren't they all?)...and I think his sacking wasn't just this but several years of sinking ratings and falling further and further behind Faux. Had this network been #1, Time/Warner would have told the wingnuts to go pound sand.

I don't see a connection between Jordan and the latest fiasco in Baghdad and I sense the truth of what happened falls between what this regime is saying and of Sgrena. Journalists are targeted in all wars...where else did the term "kill the messenger" come from"?

I haven't seen any articles posted as to who Jordan's replacement is at CNNservative and if there will be changes considering the latest ratings showed the network sinking even further.

[chrisbur]

2. I believe..

the term "Kill the messenger" came from ancient Greece. Warring city states would send runners back and forth with messages. I could be wrong though.

[katinmn]

4. I don't believe there's a connection between the two incidents

I would just like to know why Jordan isn't sharing WHY he thought the US was targeting journalists and perhaps save a few lives!


edit: hasty spelling error

[Cocoa]

3. his payment is that he gets to keep breathing n/t

[Frederik]

5. Foreign minister disputes US version

The Italian foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, has given the following account of what happened when special agent Calisparo was killed and journalist Giuliana Sgrena was injured:


- The agent, Nicola Calipari, had established "all necessary contacts" with the American authorities in Bagdad when he arrived in Bagdad earlier the same day.
- The car was driving "no faster than 40 km/h", which should be about 25 mph.
- The light was turned on inside the car.
- A bright light was suddenly directed at the car from a distance of about 10 metres. The driver hit the brakes and the car comes to a near standstill.
- Then a hail of gunfire is directed at the car.

(http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3218,36-40074... )
In French, but can be Babel Fished of course.

Someone here speculated that the GIs might have directed their searchlight at the car, in a split second seen "swarthy" faces and perhaps guns, panicked and fired. But if the light was turned on inside the car, that doesn't make much sense.

Would one mistake an embassy car (presumably of the black, expensive sort) with the interior lights turned on for Iraqi suicide bombers or drive-by shooters?

Fini dismissed the claim that the Americans were not informed of the rescue operation.

Any idea where Eason got his crazy ideas from?

[applegrove]

6. DUPE - his career was ended. If he keeps quiet he may have a

chance to rebuild his dreams in the after-bush years.