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CNN news chief in hot water
12/02/2005 09:47 - (SA)
Washington - CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan resigned on Friday, saying he wanted to protect the network from controversy over remarks he made during the World Economic Forum last month about the death of journalists in Iraq.
According to some participants - he denies it - Jordan told an audience at the gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that United States forces had deliberately targeted journalists.
In a letter to colleagues on Friday, cited on CNN's website, Jordan said his remarks from January 27 were "not as clear as they should have been."
"After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq," Jordan's letter said.
"While my CNN colleagues and my friends in the US military know me well enough to know I have never stated, believed, or suspected that US military forces intended to kill people they knew to be journalists, my comments on this subject in a World Economic Forum panel discussion were not as clear as they should have been," the letter went on.
- AFP
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