CNN chief news exec Eason Jordan wrote a fascinating op-ed piece in today's New York Times where he mentions how he witnessed, through frequent trips to Bahgdad in the last ten years, "awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."
Jordan went to Iraq on ocassion to plead with the government to allow CNN to keep a bureau there. I'm sure it will be debated in the coming days whether Jordan should have reported this news at the time, and whether the cable network covered things up to stay on Iraq's good side. Regardless, it's tough to doubleguess these things. He also had a real reason to believe that people would die if he did report these things too. Judge for yourself.
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