Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, resigned two weeks after telling a Davos panel that the U.S. military "targeted" journalists in Iraq.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, resigned two weeks after telling a Davos panel that the U.S. military "targeted" journalists in Iraq. Rony Abovitz, a businessman attending Davos, posted the remark online, conservative bloggers (including those at NRO) made much of it, and the rest is history. Or the end of history, to hear traditional journalists tell it. "[T]oo high a price to pay" (David Gergen, moderator of the panel). "[T]he one-strike-and-you're-out nature of trial by Internet" (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post). "The salivating morons who make up the lynch mob prevail" (Steve Lovelady, managing editor of the Columbia Journalism ...