DAN KENNEDY PUBLISHES A LONG LETTER FROM CNN’S EASON JORDAN — and replies.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

If a CEO of a tobacco company were making the type of statements Jordan makes in the letter on Media Log, it would come in for derision and ridicule in newsrooms (and supposed “watchdog” groups likethe Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy) across the country. Instead, there will be a willingness among all too many “cynical reporters” to not dig deep into this one. . . .

Cynicism only goes so far.