LGF links to a post from November 2004 which quotes yet another CNN executive, Chris Cramer, as follows:

Chris Cramer of the US network CNN is honorary president of the International News Safety Institute (Insi).

He told hundreds of TV executives and journalists at News Xchange: “The death toll is three times higher than that of international humanitarian workers… This has been arguably the most terrible year for our profession - after I sat here and told you last year it had been the most terrible year.”

By some counts, more than 1,200 journalists and media workers have been killed in the past 10 years, more than two thirds dying in their own countries.

“Most were deliberately targeted for seeking out the truth. And in more than 94% of those cases, no one has been brought to trial,” Chris Cramer recalled.

It seems to me that the LGF post is implying by way of association, that Cramer is accusing the military of targeting journalists, but I interpret his statements, from the limited context, not quite that specific. He says journalists are being targeted, but it doesn’t seem to be quite the same as Jordan’s in terms of who is doing the targeting.

See what you think.

And, it turns out that this is not a first for Eason Jordan. Check out this quote from November, 2004:

“Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces,” Mr Jordan told an audience of news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal.

By way of Captain’s Quarters’ rebuttal to Eason Jordan, which is where I came across this November quote.