NOW You See the Power of A Fully-Operational Blogosphere

Wow---I must say I didn't think this was coming so soon:

NEW YORK - 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.

Let me say this right now---I have a job I truly love, and I'm going to be very, very nice to The Blogfather, La Shawn Barber, and Captain Ed from now on.

Let me also say that I was wrong in my earlier speculation on the power of the blogosphere---Jordan's scalp was taken by bloggers without MSM help.

I was also way off on the importance of this story. Hugh Hewitt picked up on this like a Great White sniffing blood in the water.

But that's why he's the Blogfather and I'm just a ring-kisser.

Update:

Did this Washington Times editorial break the logjam and trigger Jordan's resignation?

Update II:

Blogs For Bush has the CNN internal memo announcing Jordan's resignation.

Michelle Malkin writes history's first draft of L'Affair Jordan.

Linkage:

Redstate senses a teensy bit of triumphalism. The Force is strong with young Krempasky.

Eagle-eyed Blogosphere Gunner 1st Class Kevin Craver drops in from the Rathergate system with news of Princess Amanpour.

Thanks to Admiral Goldberg for offering the services of the Super Star Destroyer "The Corner" for this mission.

Michelle Malkin finds this inspiring.

Confessions of a Political Junkie deems this sweet.

Bedrock Guy's cool with it.

Silent Running bears witness.

Marcvs the Bard's Tales calls it "A New Hope."

The Politics of CP thinks this is a pretty decent summation of the whole affair.

PolySciFi notes that the Star Wars uninitiated might mistake this for...something else.

Unconsidered Trifles is in on the joke.

Clive Davis wonders if this isn't a new logo for a new era.

Pajama Hadin is disturbed by the MSM's lack of faith.