Did You Hear The One About Eason Jordan?

LMAO! a one-stop-shopping clearinghouse for nonpartisan information

NEW YORK For the past four years there has been no shortage of news and views on Iraq and the long-running war there. What’s been missing: a one-stop-shopping clearinghouse for nonpartisan information, including material coming out of Iraq itself from natives of that country, not from foreign correspondents.

Now that need is finally being addressed in the form of IraqSlogger, in Beta at www.iraqslogger.com, but due to be officially launched next week. Its director is the former CNN news division chief, Eason Jordan, who quit that post suddenly in 2005 after 23 years with the company. The name of his new venture, he says, was inspired by a Donald Rumsfeld reference to this war being a “long, hard slog.”

The concept, Jordan tells E&P, “grew out of the feeling that I think many people shared that there was no one place to go. Individual news organizations do terrific work but you can spend the better part of a day going from one site to another and one TV outlet to another,” searching for a full picture.

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He's also famous for admitting that CNN, that is he, cleared their stories with Saddam, which included NOT reporting that CNN reporters were held hostage and tortured.

And don't you love "who quit that post suddenly in 2005 after 23 years" when the truth id he got caught on video smearing American troops as "targeting journalists" amongst the glitterati in Davos Switzerland?