Grandma's House

CNN's news executive Eason Jordan has resigned due to the controversy surrounding last week's remarks in Switzerland.

During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by American 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 and were killed by a bomb, 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.

Jordan said he was resigning to avoid CNN being tarnished by the controversy. I wonder if that's the case, or if he was asked to resign. Probably something we'll never know.