After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq,
CNN is proud of its people and they were doing the right thing in providing coverage of the departure of the freed U.S. flight crew.
We at CNN are pleased and relieved to hear the announcement that these journalists have been released and this situation brought to a peaceful and amicable resolution, ... The safety of journalists is paramount to CNN, as it is to news organizations worldwide.