See no Gannon, hear no Gannon, speak no Gannon

[Clark2008]

From Salon:

On Feb. 17, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams introduced a report on controversial White House correspondent James Guckert by informing viewers that the saga was "the talk of Washington." Nine days later the mysterious tale of an amateur, partisan journalist who slipped into the White House under false pretenses remains the buzz of the Beltway. Yet most mainstream reporters have opted not to cover the story. Two of the television networks, as well as scores of major metropolitan newspapers around the country, have completely ignored it.

"It's stunning to me that there are questions about the independent press being undermined and the mainstream press doesn't seem that interested in it," says Joe Lockhart, who served as press secretary during President Clinton's second term. "People in the mainstream press have shrugged their shoulders and said, 'It's a whole lot of nothing.'"

SNIP

Perhaps nobody is surprised that Republican-friendly Fox News has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid covering the Guckert story and the embarrassing questions it raises for the Bush White House. Since the story began to take shape earlier this month, Fox News has filled more than 500 hours of programming. During that span the name "Jeff Gannon" has been uttered just five times on the air, according to a search of the LexisNexis electronic database of television news transcripts. And at no point have the facts surrounding the story been explained to Fox's viewers. (Dependable Republican ally Matt Drudge, who in the past has gleefully trumpeted media scandals, has also been allergic to Gannongate, posting just one link to date on his Web site.)

But it is surprising that a program like MSBNC's "Hardball," which touts itself as the home of authentic Beltway chatter and which has aired 15 episodes since the Guckert story first emerged, has dedicated just one segment from one show to the Guckert controversy. MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann," however, has been much more aggressive in covering the story. Only CNN has covered the story with any kind of consistency among the 24-hour news channels.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/25/gannon_coverage/

[Sparkly]

1. Nashua Advocate has shown the media knew in Summer 2003

http://www.nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/

(scroll down)

So I think some are silent because they're complicit. They don't want us to ask what THEY knew and when they knew it.

[SodoffBush]

2. US media is loaded with Guckerts, let's face it

Half of them are probably CIA whores.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. We'll have to depend on the bloggers to do it. And they are.

Besides, Gannon is looking for attention.

[BuyingThyme]

4. I keep trying to push the plagiarism angle.

All of these MSM puds have been the victims of the thieves at GOPUSA/Talon. You'd think that would be enough to get their attention.

[sarcasmo]

5. Olbermann and Stewart are my only two forms of MSM.

These are the only two who speak the truth. Those Lewis Black bits on Stewart just make me LMFAO.

[nashville_brook]

6. by forcing people to get the skinny on this on their own -- thru blogs

the administration has lost its grasp on the message. this story has natural legs -- it's gonna travel with or without the MSM.

if people want Gannon/Guckert news, they have to come thru us which gives "us" control of the message.

so, focus on security, or plagiarism or urination -- any way you dice it, this story is a big break for us.

[BeatleBoot]

7. Tweedy Discussed It Tonight

[Clark2008]

8. OT: But, you're user name is cute!

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Yes he did but very briefly.

I have never seen anyone change subjects so fast. He started talking some more about the non-story Bush tapes.

[Al-CIAda]

10. Thanks for posting -eom

[Gabi Hayes]

11. He was on a very good NPR show today, out of Philadelphia

he and a guy from Media Matters

very comprehensive, except for a lack of mention of Gannon vs. Daschle

check this excellent, comprehensive story on what happened:

http://www.soundbitten.com/archives/week_2005_02_20.html#000605

go to
February 25, 2003
Sock Puppet Gannon
The Nashua Advocate reports that people knew Gannon was using an assumed identity as far back as 2003. The entire story is enlightening, but if you're a Mary Rosh fan, pay special note to the behavior described in this passage:

"According to Dan Pfeiffer, former spokesman for Tom Daschle--the U.S. Senate Minority Leader until his defeat in the 2004 general election--Jeff Gannon's use of assumed identities was information available to the media as far back as the summer of 2003. It was then, more than a year and a half ago, that Pfeiffer received an e-mail from someone claiming to be a citizen of South Dakota, wanting to know the Daschle campaign's reaction to a story by "Jeff Gannon." The concerned "citizen of South Dakota" turned out to be Gannon himself, as the Daschle campaign quickly uncovered by tracking the e-mail account from which the query had been sent, '[e-mail].'"


So it turns out that writing for the American Enterprise Institute isn't the only thing that Jim "Jeff Gannon" Guckert and John "Mary Rosh" Lott have in common.

Now, check out this transcript from a South Dakota talk radio show called "Argus on the Air" that aired on radio station KELO June 18th, 2003. Note the caller's name. Note the very Gannon-like syntax of the non-question question. Note that on June 18th, the only "national news" reporting on the Daschle/Kranz story was coming from Gannon himself. Note also that "Argus on the Air" streams it show on the Web, and that Gannon used to capture the stream and post it on his website Jeffgannon.com

much more at this link....great read