GUEST EXPERT payola - Gannon to Williams- money chainging hands?

[peacetalksforall]

The eruption of scandals starting with Williams involve writers and money. Now we have a scandal with Gannon, but don't know his money story - yet. Though the focus has been on writers, Williams is also a TV GUEST EXPERT. (Ironically, Gannon is a GUEST EXPERT of sorts - he has camera on him at all these conferences).

But mostly, we've been talking writers. Isn't it time to also look at pay-offs for GUEST EXPERTS?

Are there pay-offs? Who gets it? The Expert or the foundation they are affiliated with? Who pays it? Is there laundering?

Can we toss out the military guest experts on the assumption that they are all paid by the MSMs?

Which GUEST EXPERTS are we speaking about then? Answer -the endless parade from CATO AEI Independnet Women's Forum Federalist Society Heritage Foundation Washington Post Washinton Times Newsweek Time WSJ USA Today and a dozen plus more.

Do these people do it free for vanity reasons or because they are happy to spread the right wing message? Or is there money being changed? Do we have the right to ask? Is now the time to ask about the green that surrounds GUEST EXPERTS as well as writers?

[Eric J in MN]

1. Your question seems to have two parts.

1) Do guests on news channels get paid by the channel?

Yes, if they're regulars. No, if they're not regulars.

2) Do employees of AEI get paid by AEI and where does AEI get its money?

Yes, employess of AEI get paid by AEI, and I don't know where AEI gets its money.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Could YOU pimp the destruction of your country for free?

Of course these people stand to gain, financially! How else could they commit treason?

[diamond14]

3. the neo-con experts from the STINK-TANKS, all get paid by their

non-profit, tax-deductable, neo-con donated Stinktatutions (which are MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR a year PROPAGANDA operations, reTHUGlicans donate HUGE $$$$, and STINK-TANKS deliver...none of those crooks have any credentials at all)....


part of their job descriptions is: appear on as many radio/TV shows as possible.....being on TV/radio MAKES you an 'expert' in the neo-con PROPAGANDA world.....all the STINK-TANKs all offer FREE LUNCHES/FREE DINNERS to come to their 'expert' panels and speeches, the only downside is that you have to WALK OVER the homeless Veterans to get inside....I try to go once in a while and ask REAL questions, which are often result in a look of HORROR on the faces of participants...but part of going there is to KNOW YOUR ENEMY !!!


University Professors no longer appear on NPR, C-Span, PBS, or any of the Main Stream Media....all of been BANNED under the bush* pogrom, and some of now been FIRED from their University Positions, as a result of the bush* attacks....

[Somawas]

4. If you have some links

for the assertion that Univ. profs have been fired from Univ. positions as the result of Bush attacks, I'd love to see them. Not something I had heard of before.

[Eric J in MN]

5. A professor resigned as head of her dept.

over the Ward Churchill controversy. She didn't resign altogether.

Here is the thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1231439

[diamond14]

6. the most recent 'under duress' was because of inviting Prof. Churchill

http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2935906


CLINTON, N.Y. The head of a gender studies program at a New York college has resigned after igniting a furor by inviting a controversial speaker.

Nancy Rabinowitz says she's stepping down "under duress." She will continue to teach comparative literature at Hamilton College.

Rabinowitz had extended a speaking invitation to Ward Churchill. He's the University of Colorado professor who'd written an essay comparing the Nine-Eleven World Trade Center victims to "little Eichmanns," a reference to the Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann.



and mrs. cheney put out a HIT LIST on University Professors....
(lynn is a 'scholar' publishing on the American Enterprise Institue PROPAGANDA ),,,her HIT LIST of University Professors will have to be ordered directly from AEI.....call them....her work includes direct quotes from the Profs that need to have their FEDERAL FUNDING revoked....a while back, I saw a list on DU of those who have been removed since FUNDING is an important part of being a University Professor....


http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter.,view.,offlineItem.,recNo.11,scholarID.10,type.1/pub_list.asp

Articles and Short Publications by Lynne V. Cheney
Senior Fellow



Telling the Truth
By Lynne V. Cheney
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000

SPEECHES
AEI Bradley Lecture Series (Washington)
Publication Date: October 30, 1995

My book is on an abstract topic, but as I have told people during my book tour, it also grows directly out of personal experience. It was my time at the National Endowment for Humanities which was the personal experience that formed this book. I had come there after being away from the academy for ten years, and it was a great shock to me to find the state of the humanities as I did.

The curious part here was not that I was denounced for having made false accusations. I was denounced, rather, for not understanding that this was simply the way things were, and there was no sense in protesting. A highlight came when Stanley Fish, who is a guru of the relativistic postmodern kind of thinking that I talk about it in this book, took the stage at an academic conference in North Carolina. He had my pamphlet in hand, and reports came back to me, which were in fact given further substantiation by an article in the New York Times of Stanley Fish walking back and forth across the stage waving my pamphlet over his head and dismissing me in many ways to hoots and jeers and encouragement from the audience. (hahahahahah haha)...

Reaching a peroration in this presentation, in which he said "When you take away race, class, and gender, what is left?" as though this were so true, it was quite amazing that someone like me would object to it. Well, I did, and with the help of wonderful council members like Bea Himmelfarb and Father James Schall, I tried to uphold those terribly retrograde ideas like truth and beauty, and did speak out when I found the NEH was going astray. I felt it was important to do that not only because of the difficulty this kind of thinking caused for the Endowment, but because of the difficulty it caused at colleges and universities all across the country.

There is a common rebuttal to the kinds of things that I say, and it goes very simply that all of this talk about political correctness is merely a chimera of conservative thinking: That it is something that conservatives have imagined or invented in order to discredit our colleges and universities. But as I pointed out then, and I make the same case in two chapters in my book, political correctness is alive and entrenched. The stories that you heard when there was great media interest in 1990 and 1991 continue today.




http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.18094,filter./news_detail.asp

[KharmaTrain]

7. Most "Experts" Are Paid By The Networks

While many viewers don't know it, all the cable networks pay certain people to appear exclusively on their programs. Some are paid a "retainer"...and others on a per diem basis. IIRC, Mike Malloy had or had a deal like that with CNNservative as does many others. In theory, it gives the "pundit" guaranteed visibility on a regular basis and the network a quick "go-to" if they need an "expert" (I'll bet that payroll is loaded with Gen. Ret.). While I'm not certain, Wes Clark also was a paid contributor for a time.

The question comes into who is doing the paying. Armstrong appears to have double and triple dipped...getting his appearance fees, his "syndication money" and his GOOP money laundred through his "non-profit" organization. Why no one has really dug into this guy's books is beyond me.

"Gannon" is a different animal...he wasn't paid (to anyone's knowledge) to appear on programs and wasn't a regular contributor. I don't recall ever seeing him regularly on any network (maybe Faux...I'm alergic to assholes, thus I get violently sick when I turn on the channel)...and the only mentions to him were from Rushbo & Hannity on their radio programs. If he ever did appear on their shows and were paid, it would have been a one-time per diem...enough to get a nice dinner.

"Gannon's" scheme was masquerading as a member of the beltway media...and his role inside it still isn't clear. We know he was planted in the White House to play ringer in press conferences and intimidate the "legitimate" press corp (that's why they're so very quiet...they sure don't want the world to know how bad they had been compromised since they knew the guy wasn't legit and did nothing) and that he appears to have been some conduit in the Plame affair (all we need is a link to Novakula and I think we'll start getting some real answers...here's hoping Fitzgerald has already found it) and that his name already intersects with a variety of Texas Repugnicans and fundie groups/websites. This puzzle is still a long way from being complete, but we're starting to see some of the bigger pieces and what fits in the middle and what goes on the edges.

My problem with these "experts" is that it's the same old, same old. Most of these were obscure party apparachniks and copy boys until cable news and now they're media darlings...based on nothing more than their ability to show up at the studio and ape whatever talking point fits the "discussion". CNNservative's gotten both bad and lazy on this as you rarely will see a Joe Connason or Gene Lyons or Molly Ivins or other Progressive or Liberal commentator, but there's Novakula and his pals always screaming the right wing/regime part line.

[diamond14]

8. 'gannon' stated that he NEVER GOT PAID for writing....worse,

the spokeswoman for the Senate said that 'gannon' couldn't get a press pass there, because he had NO KNOWN SOURCE OF INCOME....


which BEGS the real question: was 'jeff gannon's source of income, his 'family value' web sites??


http://www.hotmilitarystud.com/
http://www.MilitaryEscort.com/
http://www.MilitaryEscortM4M.com/

[KharmaTrain]

9. Even More Of A Rats Nest

This afternoon a couple of us were googling around...it appears the Repugnican party has it's own accredation system (we found a site for the New York GOOP...for last year's convention) that threw the buck at the "Congressional Gallery"...that was very, very vague on how one gets accredited.

When we went for more info on the "Congressional Gallery" we ended up at the Senate Repugnican leadership page...supposedly this group approves the press passes into the House & Senate...and bypasses the other accreditation systems set up by the news agencies...meaning, "Gannon" could have used these passes...which could have been granted by a Congressional or Senate staffer (just like someone issuing you a hall pass) and from there you're in.

This "Congressional Gallery" appears to be the way the GOOP gets their pet "reporters" in and around...and the site doesn't mention anything about background checks or the size and circulation of the publication.

What really has me thinking tonight is the remark by Dana Milbank...who claims that he saw "Gannon" with a hard pass...similar to the regular beat reporters...that would have had to been issued by the Washington Press Assocation (the group that accredits the WH Press corpse)...OR..that his "hard pass" was one issued by the Congressional Gallery that enabled him to roam around all over the place.

So many loose ends, but I suspect this goon was so sloppy, we're gonna find some connections his benefactors wished we didn't.

[peacetalksforall]

10. His sloppiness matches the party.

I advocate equal treatment and I think Dems should ask to have a non-MSM representative in the press conferences, but one qualified in journalism so that the WH can say no, but won't be able to say that they were made aware of a glitch inthe system and have straightened it out. (However, we shouldn't let anyone forget that Gannon took the first action and quit.) The WH hasn't spoken yet - there's a reply penindg from the Conyers-Slaughter letter. But, we should do more.

I advocate that we demand to know precisely how press conference admittance is vetted.

[diamond14]

11. why does pat robertson's 700 Club have a PERMANENT WH Press pass?

pat robertson's racist/bigotted group can hardly be considered a NEWS organization....


if pat gets a Permanent Pass, why did the Catholic Register get NO pass??