Scandal in the Press Core - WaPo story filed at 12:44pm Thursday

[KurtNYC]

The Washington Post is running several stories on this including this one by Froomkin.

The saga of James D. Guckert, AKA Jeff Gannon, is either:

Yet another example of the White House's attempts to avoid scrutiny, undermine the free and independent media, and use fake news and propaganda to manipulate public opinion.
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Yet another example of the blogosphere's ability to out-investigate the mainstream media and force it to pay attention to stories that otherwise would be ignored.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14148-2005Feb10.html

[BurtWorm]

1. Froomkin for Reliable Source!

Howie for Style Section deputy managing editor!

[underpants]

2. I thought the whole thing was a cover story

Yet another example of the liberal domination of the mainstream media.


Second possibility listed.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Stating the obvious, Froomkin is right on both examples

The story made my day, now maybe Dan or Peter will have a mention this evening. Keep the ball rolling boys; DU is pedaling as fast as it can.

[leftchick]

4. uh hello...

why can't it be both? The mainstream media repeatedly avoids stories negative to idiotface**. And the WH has been caught redhanded MORE THAN ONCE paying these so called media people off! YES IT IS A SCANDAL!!!

[stray cat]

5. Some of Gannons greatest hits from above article and KO

Gannon's Greatest Hits

Some of Gannon's greatest hits, as featured in a video montage on Olberman's show last night:


May 10, 2004: "Q In your denunciations of the Abu Ghraib photos, you've used words like 'sickening,' 'disgusting' and 'reprehensible.' Will you have any adjectives left to adequately describe the pictures from Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers? And will Americans ever see those images?


"MR. McCLELLAN: I'm glad you brought that up, Jeff, because the President talks about that often."


July 15, 2004: "Q Last Friday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that shows that Ambassador Joe Wilson lied when he said his wife didn't put him up for the mission to Niger. The British inquiry into their own prewar intelligence yesterday concluded that the President's 16 words were 'well-founded.' Doesn't Joe Wilson owe the President and America an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure?"


April 1, 2004: "Q I'd like to comment on the angry mob that surrounded Karl Rove's house on Sunday. They chanted and pounded on the windows until the D.C. police and Secret Service were called in. The protest was organized by the National People's Action Coalition, whose members receive taxpayer funds, as well as financial support from groups including Theresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation.


"MR. McCLELLAN: I would just say that, one, we appreciate and understand concerns that people may have. I would certainly hope that people would respect the families of White House staff."


Feb. 10, 2004: "Q Since there have been so many questions about what the President was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda, denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Did he testify before Congress that American troops committed war crimes in Vietnam? And did he throw somebody else's medals at the White House to protest a war America was still fighting?"

[lostnfound]

6. Froomkin is now on shortlist of MSM journalists who have earned my trust

Great column because it documents who tried to cover for Gannon (Kurtz et al) and who didn't.

An earlier thread showed how Froomkin has written repeatedly about Gannon's softball questions, by the way.

[Beetwasher]

7. 'They tried to intimidate me, punish me. Then they tried to embarrass me,

and they've done a pretty good job of that.' "

I'll say!

Hahahahahahahaha! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER!

[malaise]

8. One by one they'll be exposed

The Press Secretary was clearly in on this. Damn Keith waas great with this last night.

[gottaB]

9. Tim Graham's momma is a libertine

Can we agree on that?

Or is that too snarky?

[EFerrari]

10. Gannon said he registered those domain names for clients

And the "live and let live" press corps don't ask, just what kind of clients were those?! Or, what kind of service were you providing that necessitated you posting your own nude pix on ah, your client's site?

Bulleria.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. The article was great, but it left out the answer to an important question

If Guckert created the gay webpage for the client, how can he call himself a conservative with the vehemence he claims to have? Where are his convictions? Who is the client?

I think the reason why the media is so apprehensive about bloggers getting into Guckert's personal life is because they know it can happen to them. I say fine. In light of the way the government and media has acted unethically and in unison to take down Clinton and install a fascist king, then bloggers can be just as unethical in order to get the truth to the public and expose hypocrisies that the career journalists won't touch.

[EFerrari]

12. But, how unethical is it to read a public record?

Isn't that what it amounts to? Maybe I'm missing something.

[gottaB]

13. they call us libertines and say it's nothing personal

There's nothing unusual about the media engaging in the politics of personal destruction. The problem here is the rightwing bias and the complicity with a rightwing government. It is not unethical to explore that. Far from it. The media do not occupy any moral high ground in this matter. Their debasement is their own doing.