Gannon...Did We Take Him Down??

[Donny247]

I just started following this little story. Did Media Matters break this, was it the bloggers, and/or DU??? If so...FUCKING SWEET! The vast left wing consipiracy is really kicking into high gear!

[brainshrub]

1. Kos's blog did it.

This story shows the power of the internet.

MSM dropped it, bloggers carried the ball to the finnish line.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Kos and some other sites were instumental...................

DU unfortunately wasn't the one that delivered the knock out punch, but we were in there swinging.

[Occulus]

4. There may be a LOT more to this

There's a thread here somewhere linking to posts he made over there which seem to indicate he has some special knowledge of the Plame affair.

[shoelace414]

3. Gannongate?

[Stephanie]

5. The story was first broken by my pal, at this blog, one year ago >

www.webdems.blogspot.com

Go here for her first post on the subject:

http://webdems.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_webdems_archive.html

Excerpt:

WebDems
Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Netizens, start your engines.

Let's take a look at the bogeyman of credentialing practiced by this Bush White House. Let's go back to the fourth-row seat designated for the news service mentioned above -- Talon News Service.

The nine volunteer "reporters" of Talon News Service are available for your inspection at Talon. The roster includes (as mentioned above) a high-school student who cites as favorite reading the fundamentalist Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest; a "reporter" who dutifully lists his work history as "cleaning my family's bar" and sometime camp director; a personal trainer; an aerospace engineer; and a couple of self-proclaimed freelancers.

The Talon reporter assigned to cover the White House is Jeff Gannon, whose product from this plum position is a one-minute daily webcast on Talon's site and a weekly broadcast over the radiofreerepublic.com network. Freerepublic.com is the faded home-base of the Clinton haters; a message board where some dirty tricks against liberals are hatched (the recent bogus photo of Kerry and Fonda originated there) and a whole lot of blind Bush-kissing continues. Freerepublic's shrill, extremist rallies in Washington attract only a handful of people.

Talon News Service is obviously a silly and kooky wannabe outfit. And yet a precious seat in the fourth row of the White House briefing room is Gannon's. He boasts on freerepublic about asking questions designed to elicit "gasps" from the real correspondents.

How and why did Talon gain permission to access White House briefings while the same White House threatened denial of access to correspondents from media giants NBC and CNN and The Washington Post? And doesn't Talon's inclusion cement the critical need for reporters to be credentialed through peer review?

[Stephanie]

10. Please read my post above ^

I think it's important to note that webdems started all this - and congratulate her!


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[DefenseLawyer]

12. Story known for a year

but add a "gay porn website" angle and the MSM suddenly finds the story.

[Speck Tater]

6. Gannon will vanish without a ripple in the MSM.

He becomes a non-person and the 372 members of the public who knew his name to begin with, forget that he ever existed by this time next Thursday.

No scandal, no noise, just a quiet, behind the scenes demotion to non-personhood. That's why the RW worked so hard to sieze the media. If it's not on Fox it just didn't happen.

[Democrats_win]

7. During his 3-day work week Bush is reading "My pet Gannon"

Odd thing, even with softballs, bush still sounds like a moron at un-impressed conferences.

[spanone]

8. Every little bit helps.

[LuminousX]

9. The power of the People's Media

[notadmblnd]

11. I think Kos did a fine job

he moved on to more important issues with the story and let DU spread the word.