Here's a couple of blog postings. Jay Rosen has written that he didn't think Eason Jordan should have stepped down from his executive position with CNN over his Davos remarks.

Rosen then points to a posting from the blog Glocal man, who wrote the following post on Feb. 15: Eason Jordan, bagged by glocal bloggers:

Eason Jordan is an interesting glocal case. As CNN's chief news executive, no one traveled the world more than he, working out top-level arrangements with foreign governments and agencies to smooth the work of CNN's ground troops when they came in.

As such, Jordan needed  exceptionally great skill at understanding the needs and the worldview of the people in areas where CNN put its staff. He needed to be able to say things that made foreign leaders feel that, yes, Jordan really understood them. Or at least that they could work with him. There is no doubt that this made him say things in foreign capitals that, should these things ever be replayed for his colleagues back at the home office in Atlanta, would cause shock and alarm.

Because things that are accepted as inoffensive and obvious truisms in one part of the world, can be considered outrages in another. Such as the assertion that the U.S. military targets journalists from time to time in its operations. That's a truism in much of the Middle East. And it's an almost treasonous claim in today's U.S.