Jay Gerland’s The Black Dog

This is scary to me: The Resignation at CNN Shows the Growing Influence of Blogs. Basically, Jordan Eason, head of “liberal media” giant CNN, has apparently been pushed out of his position for implying that US troops were targeting journalists. Now, I find that assertion hard to believe but the fact that so many people went to their blogs to complain and now that firestorm has forced him to resign is worrisome to me.

Dan Rather’s imminent departure of CBS is along the same lines but Dan and his cohorts at CBS actually did something unbecoming of a journalist and went to air with a story they never bothered to corroborate. They deserved the troubles they got and Mr. Rather should retire (but for being old, not stupid).

Jordan Eason said something he probably shouldn’t have and even though he was representing his position at CNN, I don’t see CNN broadcasting news this biased. Eason said it, not CNN. This is completely different than “rathergate.”

It’s scary to think that this “sixth estate” has pushed a man to resign simply by being opinionated. Bloggers should not have this kind of power and I find it hard to believe that simply having a few dozen bloggers writesomething can be considered as pressure. Most people in this country don’t even know what a blog is yet, let alone know where to find these people.

But they will someday, so this sort of mess is only going to get bigger.

Filed under: Technology on February 14th, 2005