An Associated Press story out today proclaims the following:
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.
What furor would that be, my dear AP? And what remarks? I just Googled [Eason Jordan "Associated Press"] and came up with just one AP story that makes any mention of his Davos comments or any ensuing controversy, and that is the current article linked-to above, reporting on his resignation. But that means that the AP has been ignoring a furor that has been going on since last month -- a furor so intense that it led the head of news for the world's most famous news network to resign.
Now why would the AP do that, when it saw fit to report on the abduction of a children's toy:
Miller was the first to discover the hoax that the kidnapped soldier was actually a special-edition action figure named Cody, which was sold only on U.S. bases in Kuwait. He frantically tried calling several different bureaus of The Associated Press, each time getting referred to its automated reader comment line. “If someone would just take two seconds to look at this, they’d realize this is an action figure and not a real guy,” he told the gatekeepers. Finally, a skeptical photo editor in New York listened and agreed to look at photos of the action figure for comparison. “Thanks for the great info and images,” the editor fired back in an e-mail. “You have the largest news-gathering organization on the planet at a standstill!”
I guess they just never got started up again enough to cover EasonGate.
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