If you don’t know who Eason Jordan is or what’s going on, read the Easongate archives to catch up. Consider LBC your one-stop shop. 
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Before the story was confirmed, this post title was “Eason Jordan Resigns: Truth or Rumor?”
(6:59 p.m. EST): National Review Online reporting. Developing…
Update (7:11 p.m.): Associated Press also reporting:
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.
“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.
But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up. There was an online petition calling on CNN to find a transcript, and fire Jordan if he said the military had intentionally killed journalists.
The “online petition” they’re referring to is on Easongate.com!!!
A fellow Easongate blogger reports that Larry Elder just announced it on his radio show. I’m going to be a guest on Kevin McCullough’s show next week. I wonder what we’ll talk about…
Thanks again, Lucianne! That’s what happens when you’re quick on the draw. Just think…I was about to turn off my computer!
Readers speculate that there’s more to this story, too. CNN decided to cut its losses for a reason. Another reader notes that Jordan announced his resignation after the news cycle, but there’s no such thing in the blogosphere. Bloggers were the momentum behind this story, and don’t ever let anybody convince you they (we) weren’t.
Old Media, Mainstream Media, Big Media, Legacy Media, Fourth Estate, Dinosaurs — whatever they call themselves — they’d be the wiser to read BLOG: Understanding the Information Reformation.
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Other bloggers blogging: “Simul-posting” at Easongate.com, Michelle Malkin, Power Line, Ed Driscoll, Blogs for Bush, blogicus, PressThink, Balance Sheet, Michael King, Outside the Beltway, Absentee, Mickey Kaus, Jeff Jarvis, Thirty Second Thoughts, Ankle Biting Pundits, Daily Inklings, Wizbang (and here), Captain’s Quarters, The Anchoress, Sisyphean Musings, Myopic Zeal, Jim Geraghty, Hyscience., Moderate Voice, The Question Fairy, Down with Absolutes (He’s only kidding)…
A special “thank you” goes to Bill Roggio, founder of Easongate.com. Check out his post.
Scappleface is always the comedian:
Even as embattled CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan announced his ‘resignation’ tonight, the ad hoc consortium of unedited writers known as the blogosphere met online to discuss which journalist should be the next to fall.Still riding high from its role in the ‘memogate’ firings at CBS and the demise of two editors at the New York Times, the blogosphere took less than two weeks to turn rumors from Davos, Switzerland, into a pink slip for the 23-year veteran of CNN.
Update II (9:48 p.m.): CNN finally posts the story. An excerpt:
The resignation sent shock waves through CNN — with Jordan long admired by his peers, from executives to the rank-and-file. Jordan joined CNN as an assistant assignment editor in 1982 and rose through the ranks to become CNN’s chief news executive.
They were shocked by that? This is only the beginning, people. Words and actions have consequences.
Hugh Hewitt reacts:
The MSM missed this story, and whether it is out of sympathy for one of their own, agreement with all or part of the implied charge, or simple laziness, the assessment of their incompetence should be thorough as well.
Update III (10:51 p.m.): Breaking news at B4B regarding CNN internal e-mail sent to staff: “At 6:14 PM, Eastern Time, an e-mail was sent to CNN employees regarding Eason Jordan, from Jim Walton, president of the CNN Newsgroup….A source inside CNN has forwarded me the e-mail…”
Update IV (11:14 p.m.): Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz (registration req.) reporting.
Michelle Malkin has an Easongate Retrospective.
Update V (12:13 a.m.): The last update of the “night” is a comment from reader JohninLondon, quoting Hugh Hewitt:
Hugh Hewitt said on his radio programme this evening that major networks (and newspapers like the LA Times?) are now having to report that the boss of CNN is resigning over a scandal they have never reported on !
The absurdity of it all is too childish for words, isn’t it? Good “night.”
Update VI (Saturday, February 12 @ 8:00 a.m. and beyond): Yesterday morning on Easongate.com, I blogged on a post by a liberal blogger who implied that Hugh Hewitt was a Nazi. I took issue with that, but I had a bigger problem with his use of the word “blogstorm.” This is a new pet peeve, so I had to deal with it. You might find this useful/humorous/silly:
…I need to clear up something. What happens when bloggers descend on an issue is a blog swarm — two words — not a blogswarm, blogstorm or blog storm. In BLOG, Hugh devotes a chapter to blog swarms and opinion storms. The analogy describes what happens when dozens of bloggers “swarm” around an issue/story like…a swarm of bees. That’s the image. An opinion storm is the result of a blog swarm. This a pet peeve of mine, and I cringe whenever I see “blogstorm.” Grotesque.
I felt better after blogging that. (Note: Michael makes a “blogstorm” correction.)
More bloggers blogging: Blogger and journalist Rebecca MacKinnon (knows Eason Jordan and corroborated Rony Abovitz’s [he has his own blog now] version of events), The National Political Observer, PrestoPundit, Pajama Hadin (excellent round-up), The Key Monk, cerdipity, Isaac Schrödinger, Democracy Project, PoliPundit, BlackFive (For the record, this fellow Easongate.com blogger beat me to the punch. I first posted news of the resignation at 6:59 p.m. EST, but BlackFive reported at 6:51 p.m. EST.), Captain’s coverage continues, Spartac.us, INDC Journal, David Limbaugh, Okie on the LAM, VodkaPundit, Chrenkoff, The MUSC Tiger…
Hugh Hewitt’s most recent column…
In an unrelated note, my “blogsister” Ambra Nykol has landed herself a guest columnist spot at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This is a great cross-over move by Ambra. A public and high-profile platform is highly-prized and very valuable.
Lorie Byrd asks: “What Consequences, If Any, For CNN From The Jordan Resignation?” More here.
This is funny. More comedy from Ace: Eason Jordan: Reporters “Deliberately Targeted” by Bloggers…
Skeptic Jeff Harrell reacts. Jimmie at The Sundries Shack bids Jordan farewell…
Paul “Deacon” Mirengoff:
Given its lack of desire to report the news objectively, only two things can motivate the MSM to report stories that are embarrassing to liberals. The first is the desire to spin the story and the second is the desire not to be embarrassed itself. Both motives kick in only after a story has gained a considerable amount of buzz, but it’s clear that blogs can generate that buzz in certain cases.
