CNN Clarifies Remarks by Idiot News Exec. Eason Jordan

Two weeks ago at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, CNN's chief news executive, Eason Jordan, raised eyebrows when he suggested that some of the 63 journalists who have been killed in Iraq had been targeted by US troops. Although Jordan quickly tempered the remarks, a controversy has been building over them on the web. CNN has responded, issuing a statement clarifying Jordan's comments. It reads as follows:

"While the majority of the 63 journalists killed in Iraq have been killed by insurgents, the Pentagon has acknowledged that the US military on occasion has killed people who turned out to be journalists," the CNN statement said. "Mr. Jordan emphatically does not believe that the US military intended to kill journalists and now believes that the US military mistakenly identified the journalists as Iraqi civilians."