Jeff Gannon' on NPR -- February 9, 2005

[MSgt213]

HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOUR JOB AS A JOURNALIST?

How I see my job is that I need to report stories that I think are important and recently my responsibility has been to report on those those things that don't usually make it to the mainstream press.

HOW DOES THAT WORK?

For example, I am unapoligetically a conservative and there is a huge audience out there of conservatives whose issues very rarely get mentioned and certainly not treated properly when they do get mentioned in the mainstream press.

EXAMPLES?

I think abortion is one of those issues. I find the debate over abortion is certainly skewed in a direction that is pro-abortion. And also judicial nominees, the issues very rarely comes up even though it is of great concern to conservatves across the country and was a factor in the last presidential elections in many of the Senate races. But the only time you're going to here about it from most of my colleagues is when were talking about a replacement for a Supreme Court Justice.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR OUTLETS?

I have an online webcast program every week on righttalk.com. It's a freewheeling hour of interviews and commentary. I generally have someone who is a member of Congress on to talk about issues of importance and issues of the day.

HOW LONG?

It's an hour long show.

IT'S A WEBCAST?

It is a webcast and it's also an archived show so it's available at other times . . .

IS TALON YOUR PRIMARY OUTLET?

TalonNews.com is the primary outlet for my daily news articles. Now I do maintain a website, JeffGannon.com, where there's a lot of information about myself . . . I do news analysis and commentary. Lately it's been featuring the media. The news has been the news, or at least how its gathered has been the news for quite a while.

MORE AT THE LINK:
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert322.shtml

[diamond14]

1. OMG ! gannon NEVER GOT PAID for his writing, ever.....wonder where

he gets money to live....seriously, are the reTHUGlicans just heaving money at this shill????


-snips- from NPR interview....

I have spent a lifetime of writing, none for pay unfortunately, and I have spent two years reporting at the White House and I have written a story every day five days a week for two years and I think my journalism credentials are fairly well established as a result of that.

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WERE YOU A JOURNALIST PRIOR TO COMING TO THE WHITE HOUSE?

I was doing independent writing. No I was not quote unquote "a journalist" quote unquote.

SO YOU LEARNED ON THE JOB?

Journalism isn't all that rigorous. I mean if you know how to write. If you have your basic story construction. Gee, I guess I shouldn't say these things about journalism since people spend thousands and thousands of dollars to go to jouurnalism school but the truth of the matter is that there's a basic story structure and certain standards that you set, and you go about presenting information to people and I think it's a pretty straight forward thing to do.

[asjr]

4. The Repubs must have dug up the Blarney Stone

to get to this shill.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Yeah, I have a knitting blog I keep up to date.

That doesn't make me a journalist, you big piece of crap Gannon.

[rox63]

6. He made his money from

the male escort service web sites he ran, of course.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Gawd..............

it keeps getting curiouser and curiouser.

[Generator]

3. So this guy is a right wing BLOGGER who gets to ask the President

questions at press confrences. He is a paid "reporter" by whom? And whom forced him to resign when he was outed (for being a fake) so suddenly?

[dweller]

7. hmmm....and DU is inundated

suddenly with abortion threads.


curiouser and curiouser.

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