I’ve had my reservations about the coordinated blogosphere attack on Eason Jordan — his comments were stupid, yes, but that sort of thing is being said by other media organizations as well. This is all nothing new, and I think the blogosphere has to be careful about taking down public figures who say something stupid. I mean, it’s not like Jordan could go back and erase the offending statement and call it a correction. He did the closest thing he could to that however (not that it was necessarily TRUE that he ‘didn’t really mean it,’ but at least he bothered to admit that there was something wrong with what he said. Unlike a certain Dan Rather I could mention). If we removed all the people who ever said stupid things from influential positions, everybody would be leaderless. Not that I’m complaining too much — in my mind it’s just as well that he’s been held accountable. I’d recommend INDC Journal’s post on this for reference, and Charles’ commentary on the resolution (or is it?) of the whole affair.
UPDATE 2/12/05 5.15 PM: This is a good point too.