Gannon story makes Google News!

[Stevious]

:bounce:

http://news.google.com

[jgardner]

1. Where?

I didn't see it. I'd love to catch it and rate it a 5!

[donco6]

3. Google, not Yahoo.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/212561_gannon18.html

[moggie12]

2. Good & it's about Rep, Slaughter demanding answers

I like Louise's spunk -- I hope she gets on TV again. she was great last time..

[leftchick]

4. let us look at a snip....

Lawmaker presses White House on 'Jeff Gannon'

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/212561_gannon18.html

WASHINGTON -- With the mystery of "Jeff Gannon" deepening, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., yesterday renewed her call for the White House to explain its relationship with a conservative ex-reporter linked to an online gay escort service.

Slaughter said the relationship between the White House press office and "Gannon," whose real name is James Dale Guckert, was "anything but typical." The White House should "stop the stonewalling and come clean," she added, following up on her initial request a week ago.

Slaughter's comments came in response to evidence that the White House allowed Gannon into presidential news briefings weeks before his Internet-based news organization was registered and online.

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But yesterday, the online magazine Salon cited C-SPAN television clips showing Gannon attending White House news briefings as early as Feb. 28, 2003, a month before his Internet news site, Talon News, was registered and online.

[Wickerman]

5. Count on the Austin Chronicle

regrettably, its a weekly. Happily, its widely read. Saddly, most readers are already progressives.

[Hissyspit]

6. I wonder...

if any of the White House Press Corps reporters have been taken to task by their editors: Why did you look into this guy you were sitting one row away from?

Naah, probably not...

[bloom]

7. "Hard Questions at White House" Sydney Morning Herald... n/t

[RobertSeattle]

8. Google.News search for "Jeff Gannon" now returns 491 hits

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22Jeff+Gannon%22&btnG=Search+News

[bloom]

9. "Phony Journalist/Pimping for the White House" - Minneapolis Star Trib.n/t

[bloom]

10. "Bush's Barberini Faun" - Spiegel Online, Germany

I love these headlines!

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[MsUSA]

11. Story made it into the Star Tribune in Minneapolis!!

Heard about the Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert muck-up in Washington? If you are an aficionado of the blogs, you've heard plenty. They're having a field day with it. But underneath all the fun lies a serious problem that hasn't got its due from the mainstream press: This White House employs a lot more kinds of fakery than the budgetary smoke and mirrors described in the editorial above.

Here's a summary: For more than two years, a reporter named Jeff Gannon turned up at White House briefings and press conferences, where he asked softball questions with a decidedly pro-Bush bent. For example, at President Bush's Jan. 26 press conference, Gannon asked how Bush could work with lawmakers like Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Hillary Clinton, "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality."

Well, it turns out that "Jeff Gannon" is really Jim Guckert, and he was a reporter for an online outfit called "Talon News," which was associated with the online group GOPUSA. com, owned by Texas Republicans. It also turns out that Guckert, in addition to reporting for a phony Web site, has no real journalism training and is a $200-an-hour gay prostitute. He ran numerous Web sites like militaryescortsm4m. com. The photos of Gannon that were displayed on those Web sites left nothing to the imagination about his physical attributes.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5247250.html