CNN news chief resigns over Iraq remarks

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"This is too high a price to pay for someone who has given so much of himself over 20 years. And he's brought down over a single mistake because people beat him up in the blogosphere?" said Gergen, the Davos panel moderator and an editor at the magazine "US News and World Report."

"They went after him because he is a symbol of a network seen as too liberal by some. They saw blood in the water," Gergen said

辞め方があまりに早いというか潔いとかえって同情を招く。色々なことがあったのだろう。社内外の圧力は日本以上だろう。米国のようなある意味でモラルに異様に厳しい国でしかも公正中立を標榜するCNNだし。日本の某国営放送と某大手全国紙の争いはこの対極。マスメディアがそれぞれ独立性をもち記者を保護しているわけだが、その一方で、それぞれの報道の不偏性とか報道編集についての事後チェックといった観点を欠く。