Has Eason Jordan resigned from CNN?

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 controversy.

During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted.

He quickly backed off the remarks, explaining that he meant to distinguish between journalists killed because they were in the wrong place where a bomb fell, for example, and those killed because they were shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy.

[Wait…editorial comment here: Is that the lamest back-off ever, or what?]

“I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise,” Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN.

Well, it sure DID seem like he was making just such an implication. Good. He should have resigned a couple years ago, when he admitted that CNN held back stories of Saddam’s atrocities in order to keep CNN in Baghdad.

A thought: I wonder if Drudge, who never got on board with the story (possibly because of a lack of MSM articles to link to) will be breaking out the siren?