Into the Blogosphere--The New Information Revolution
Albert Mohler
Author, Speaker, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

We are now witnessing a comprehensive revolution in the way information is distributed, evaluated, and catapulted into the nation's consciousness. Just ask Eason Jordan.

Jordan was once CNN's senior news chief. All that changed in February 2005 when reports came out of Davos, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum, attributing nearly unbelievable comments to the news executive. As reported, Jordan had claimed that American soldiers had targeted certain reporters and journalists in Iraq to be killed.

Within hours, "blogs" had jumped on the story, tracking down the actual substance of the comments and catching Jordan in a web of unsustainable denials. Within days, the executive simply resigned, explaining that he had "decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my most recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq."

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