Why did no other presidential press pool reporter out Gannon?

[Az]

Did these high ranked reporters just not notice Gannon or suspect him? Didn't it raise their curiousity that this unknown showed up and suddenly recieved access that so many of them had worked so hard to get? Were they complicit out of fear of losing what access they had left? Or was it simply they were too caught up in their own spincycles to notice?

[whistle]

1. How about ALL OF THE ABOVE, which is why we can't get...

...the truth printed and reported any longer.

[babylonsister]

2. Bite your tongue! Seems to me no one, and I

mean NO ONE, wants to rock any boats anywhere.

[Hepburn]

3. Just a thought.........

..........but maybe they did not want to end up in the back row with Helen.

[ewagner]

4. That's a good question

I have no proof, only suspicions but here they are:

1. The "legit press" didn't consider him consequential enough to do any sort of due dilligence.
2. The "legit press" knew or assumed all along that he was a plant and didn't want to rock the boat.
3. My favorite theory! The "legit press" knew about the gay/porn connections all along and treated it like insider information thereby ignoring it.

If #3 is true, this story will get buried very, very quickly.

what do you think?

[KoKo]

11. Agree with #3 and since Inside the Beltway is filled with insiders who

know the scoop or gossip on "everyone" what if they knew but also knew that Bush wanted Gannon there. Everyone seems cowered after 9/11, but we also remember the DC Press was very happy to go after Clinton, so they've been "stovepiping" from the RW Repugs for years. It's the same crowd.

What's also interesting is that the White House Press claim they don't want to lose access but any of us who've watched on C-Span those ridiculous "press conferences" with first Ari and now Scotty know that only a couple of reporters ever aske tough questions...mostly they have to listen to the propaganda talking points...so their claim of "losing access" always seemed pretty weak to me. Especially since they put Helen Thomas in the back row, early on.

I don't know if they are afraid or complicit. Maybe a little of both? :shrug:

[ewagner]

15. Maybe both...

I think you're right......

[deutsey]

5. Very good question

although I don't think we have to think too hard to find the answer.

Quite simply, they know that being too curious or nosey or, dare I say it, vocal about such things can cost them their jobs.

[74dodgedart]

6. Isn't lying about his name to get a press pass a crime ?

[Az]

7. Not necissarily

If he turned in the proper information to security and was greenlit to use his psuedoname then there was no breech of law. But that indicates that those in charge knew who he was.

[LynnTheDem]

13. YES.

It is illegal to use a false name on WH press creds; married females are not even allowed to use their own maiden names.

[July]

20. What is this "married female" rule?

Does this refer to women who DO change their names to their husbands' names but use a "professional name" as journalists?

I ask because, AFAIK, a woman's name does not automatically change to her husband's when she marries.

[LynnTheDem]

21. All married women MUST use their married name for WH press creds.

No your name doesn't change automatically; for example every legal document I have and for professional I use my maiden name. But if I wanted WH press creds, I would HAVE to use my husband's surname.

Yet fake reporter/gay pimp/rightwingnut operatives can use false names on their WH press creds, no problem.

[July]

23. I don't get that, then.

You would be forced to use a name that is not your legal name because you are married? Am I understanding this correctly? The White House would refuse a married female reporter's use of her LEGAL name if it wasn't her husband's surname?

[LynnTheDem]

25. If you're a married female reporter, you have to use your husband's name

yep.

That's how far they take the "no pseudonyms allowed" for WH press creds...except for Mr. HotMilitaryStud.com.

I just keep thinking, every time a new corruption by this bushCabal is exposed, what the rightwingers would do if the president had a (D) after his name instead of an (R).

[July]

26. But isn't the "married name" a pseudonym if it isn't your legal name?

They're trying to force women to use their husbands' names, even if Mrs. Whoever and Mrs. Somebody are not their legal names? And women go along with this?

[LynnTheDem]

28. Yep

And yep because I suppose otherwise they get no WH press creds.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. They saw his on-line pic and didnt want to sour their chances of a date?

:headbang:

[McCamy Taylor]

10. vs. There was a WH Press Corp Bet Pool About When He Would Be Outed

And so they had to wait for someone outside their ranks to do it.
(my personal favorite theory)

:headbang:

[blm]

9. Because their corporate masters wouldn't allow them to upset Bush.

.

[Rose Siding]

12. Very weird- last night, Dana Milbank told Keith that he and others...

had noticed Gannon wearing a photo id, just like their permanent press passes. All the reports, however, are that he was getting only daily passes- no photo, I assume. I hope he (or someone) is running that down.

[jrthin]

14. And, they are ALL bought

and paid for whores, one way or another.

[autorank]

16. They're all compromised. They new for sure. Great post!

[twenty2strings]

17. Drudge finally has story. Old news?n/t

[sam sarrha]

so now he has to wear a rainbow on his sleeve and get a number tattooed

on his arm..???:shrug:

[KharmaTrain]

18. We Need To Keep Hammering On This...Thank You!

Recently I saw the WaPo WH "reporter" on Washington Journal. I had to do a double-take to be sure he didn't work for the Washington Moonie Times. This dude was all but gushing for how great it was to work "with this White House"...and had that young repugnican, short-hair, preppy-look.

It made me think about Helen Thomas. Here was a lady stripped of her credentials to make room for these hacks and ringers.

The hubris of the beltway media is starting to hemorage money. Too much is being spread over too many and these goons are starting to get sloppy. So far their media "bretheren" are covering it up. Armstrong Williams is old history now and "Gannon" will be as well, only to be followed by yet another media scandal. Problem of blaming the "gatekeeper".

I think Kos has started to really create some waves when a Kurtz mentions him by name and starts to attack. These goons don't attack those who don't threaten. I strongly suggest DU members who can, to make a contribution to this site and others reporting this and other Press scandals. We need to keep these voice out there and make them stronger.

Thanks for your post. Let's turn the "media lens" where it belongs...on the credibility and integrity of the beltway media.

[Buddyblazon]

19. What is amazing to me...even ASTOUNDING...

after watching the clips of GUCKERT asking his RIDICULOUS...ahem..."questions" (must use "quotation fingers" in smarmy way)...THEY SAID NOTHING. They didn't even make any objections....WHATSOEVER. Not when he asked them...not afterwards...NEVER! WTF?

I mean...am I the only one that had chuckles of disgust when watching him voice his drivel? I wish I had someone here to take a snapshot of my face watching those clips. I would've called it..."what the fuck?!".

[subterranean]

27. I noticed that too

One reporter cracked a smile in one of the clips, otherwise they all acted as if he were asking perfectly normal questions. No reaction at all.

[tgnyc]

22. My guesss is there's some sort of code

among whores that you don't call out one of "your own," even if he appears to be an impostor.

[Lucille]

24. We don't know that nobody was working on this story

We just know that nobody had published anything yet. I bet you they were--he was on Froomkin's and Millbank's radar--but even if they weren't, Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the Plame case, surely found out. I bet you that's why Gluckert invited the left to go after him --he knew the truth was going to come out anyway, and this way he got a chance to put forth his spin, obligingly echoed by Leslie, Kurtz, the Poynter Institute, etc., that a reporter was being destroyed because of his politics.