The Quick And The Dead
Eason Jordan's verbal pratfall resembles nothing so much as Senator Trent Lott's fall from his majority leader job in December of 2002.—Hugh Hewitt, in The Weekly Standard, February 10
While I think making an accusation of murder on stage, at the Davos forum, and then not offering any proof is awfully shaky behavior for a news executive, the length of Jordan’s employment at CNN is ultimately up to his bosses.
—Jim Geraghty, TKS, February 9
Lott stepped down from Majority Leader only after the news clip was aired constantly and his attempts at damage control only made the situation worse. Jordan's been fortunate that whatever tape there is hasn't yet surfaced and evidently no transcript exists . . .
If no real fallout occurs, it will be awfully tough to bring enough pressure on CNN/Time-Warner to fire him. Of course, if I were them, I'd seriously begin thinking about whether or not a chief executive should be saying idiotic things. But like Lott, the pressure's going to have to come from the inside if Jordan is to lose his job.
—Mike Marchand, marchand chronicles, February 7
I won't call myself the smartest person in the universe because I happened to link Trent Lott and Eason Jordan; surely someone else would have figured that out. But I beat these two blogging kingpins by better than 48 hours.
I would gloat to them via e-mail, but I'd like to get hat-tips from them in the future.
posted by Marsh @ 2:57 AM
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