William Boykin on Jay Rosen’s blog “Eason Jordan has just been tire-necklaced by a bloodthirsty group of utopian, bible-thumping knuckledraggers that believe themselves to be bloggers but are really just a streetgang. Time Warner/CNN is spineless if not completely corrupted by its shareholders’ thirst for petro-dollars. It is now clear that all pretenses to journalistic [...]

I’m glad he resigned – clearly Jordan couldn’t afford to have the tape released, and his lame back-pedalling played and replayed before mass audiences. The timing is kind of lousy, thought. This resignation is the equivalent of a “Friday Night Document Dump…” by Monday, the news will be on to something else, most of the [...]

EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED[Ramesh Ponnuru]That’s what I’m hearing.Hmmmm…breaking. More to come. Update: AP confirms 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. military in Iraq. Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the [...]

James Glassman of the American Enterprise Institute has a nice article at Tech Central Station which soundly, roundly, profoundly contradicts Tom Friedman’s recent, relentlessly negative assessment of Europe and President Bush’s influence there. Of course, Friedman had written his dirge prior to the Iraq elections, and now – as Mr. Glassman demonstrates, it is a [...]

And I am glad he wrote what he did, here about the need for the blogosphere to put away the sledgehammers on Easongate, and bring out their trenchcoats. I’ve only written one or two posts on Easongate, for several reasons. First – I’m terribly dyslexic and all those headlines and links were making me dazed [...]

This is just pathetic. That twit Elisabeth Bumiller is trying to make something about the fact that President Bush is reading Tom Wolfe’s latest book, I am Charlotte Simmons. Gasp! It’s full of sex and booze! Bumiller can’t decide if President Bush is reading it because: A) It reminds him of his “hard partying frat [...]