GANNONGATE SCANDAL ELUDES LOCAL DAILIES (NF Reporter)

[huckleberry]

This guy is good. He's frustrated that the local papers in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, which are in Louise Slaughter's district, aren't reporting this story...

By Mike Hudson (Niagara Falls Reporter)

It's a strange business, this journalism racket. On one hand, you've got a fake news organization employing a fake reporter who turns out to be a gay prostitute gaining access to the highest level of American government and being made privy to classified documents. On the other hand, you've got a bunch of dedicated amateurs who know how to use computers and the Internet exposing him, something the Secret Service and the FBI apparently were unable to do.

So much for "Homeland Security."

Then you've got a small weekly newspaper and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, both having the temerity to ask, "What the hell's going on here?"

And finally, you've got a couple of gutless and bloated dailies that are too lazy, too stupid or too partisan themselves to report on a sensational national news story that broke right in their own backyard. Despite the fact that both papers fill their pages with reams of canned Associated Press copy every day to cut down on editorial costs, the AP stories dealing with Slaughter's valiant efforts have apparently fallen through the cracks.

So here's some news for these alleged news hounds -- this story isn't going to go away any time in the foreseeable future. Sooner or later, they're going to have to report on it.

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