Easongate: Eason Jordan has resigned from CNN. This is all due to the blogsphere as the mainstream press refused to follow up and investigate the story even till today. Howard Kurtz's article covering the fallout is as good as his first story on Eason was bad.

Top CNN exec resigning over Davos remarks (TWX) By Carolyn Pritchard SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- CNN's top news executive, Eason Jordan, said Friday he's resigning amid controversy over his assertion that journalists were targeted and killed by coaltion forces in Iraq. "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," he said in a note to CNN staff. CNN is a unit of Time Warner (TWX) ."

Howard Kurtz more detailed account of the resignation, but the tone from Kurtz is the blogsphere is vicious, mean, out of control entity that is after the MSM, especially those who they think is liberal.

"CNN's Chief News Exec Resigns Remarks Linked Troops To Journalists' Deaths By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 12, 2005; Page A01 "Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an effort to quell a bubbling controversy over his remarks about U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. Even as he said he had misspoken at an international conference in suggesting that coalition troops had "targeted" a dozen journalists and insisted he never believed that, Jordan was being pounded hourly by bloggers, liberal as well as conservatives, who provided the rocket fuel for a story that otherwise might have fizzled. " "....Blogs operated by National Review Online, radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt and commentator Michelle Malkin were among those that began slamming Jordan last week after a Davos attendee posted an online account, but the establishment press was slow to pick up on the controversy. The Washington Post and Boston Globe published stories Tuesday and the Miami Herald ran one Thursday. Also on Thursday, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Bret Stephens, who was at Davos, published an account accusing Jordan of "defamatory innuendo," and the Associated Press moved a story. As of yesterday, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and USA Today had not carried a staff-written story, and the CBS, NBC and ABC nightly news programs had not reported the matter. It was discussed on several talk shows on Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC. Gergen said last night that Jordan's resignation was "really sad" since he had quickly backed off his original comments. "This is too high a price to pay for someone who has given so much of himself over 20 years. And he's brought down over a single mistake because people beat up on him in the blogosphere? They went after him because he is a symbol of a network seen as too liberal by some. They saw blood in the water."

More thoughts from Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin, both who were all over this story and kept it going before it could "fizzle" out. Gergen's "outrage" is shared by a lot of people in the MSM and it makes them nervous that a bunch of people who are not "real" journalists can have this effect.