Detroit Free Press editorial: Press Impostor (NO mention of sex)

[Bozita]

http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/eguckert23e_20050223.htm

Press Impostor


At the White House, don't duck the real questions

February 23, 2005


How is it that an administration that screened thousands of people for attendance at Bush campaign rallies repeatedly let a fake reporter into the sanctorum of the White House pressroom under a false name? Who was running that background check? How could a president who declares that national security is his prime concern be so ill served for nearly two years by his own security detail?


What is the public to make of the fact that legitimate protesters are kept far away from President George W. Bush while an illegitimate "journalist" who's really working for a Republican propaganda mill is repeatedly allowed into the White House pressroom and regularly called upon by the president and the president's press secretary to ask questions?


Is it possible that the administration's formidable public relations machine was well aware that reporter "Jeff Gannon" of the Talon News Web site was really James Guckert, and that Talon and the Web site GOPUSA have the same owner and often the same pro-Republican content?


Is it possible that an administration that is so careful about scripting events and managing information approved of Guckert being planted in the pressroom to ask softball questions and even to keep an eye on the real reporters working there? Isn't that fair to ask, considering this is the same administration that used its taxpayer-funded, $250-million public relations apparatus to pay columnists to say nice things about its programs?

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[rodeodance]

1. I like the artilce with the sex talk--as if include the sex stuff--people

just shrug their shoulders.

[formerrepuke]

2. "sanctorum of the White House"

That sounds really smutty in itself- even without 'sex talk.'

[Bozita]

3. I think the word was carefully selected ...

... for the amusement of folks like DUers.