Is Jeff Gannon, The New Matt Drudge

[DulceDecorum]

Posted by Chicatibo on 2005/2/26 14:51:51
When the media goes after someone with the varsity they’ve targeted Jeff Gannon it makes us all take a second look. I recall when they went after Matt Drudge. The media couldn’t find enough bad words to describe the Drudge incompetence. In the beginning, one had to go to page 44 on a Google search to find the drudge report. Now the Drudge Report is King of the Internet news. Matt Drudge is quoted more frequently than Shakespeare.

Will the same fate befall Jeff Gannon, I’m sure he hope it will. Lets examine the real issues. There is an elitist attitude among Whitehouse reporters. A reporter must pay his dues to be assigned to the Whitehouse, say who? It certainly isn’t a Whitehouse rule. The people not the press own the Whitehouse. In America, there’s no privileged class, there’s only the rule of law and the media doesn’t make the law.

It seems Jeff Gannon was upsetting the one sided liberal bias in Whitehouse press conferences. Jeff Gannon was giving the President an opportunity to explain policy and not to have to defend it. This new Civil Journalism couldn’t be tolerated. The media is convinced it’s they’re mandated to paint the president in a bad light at all times. (good isn’t news, only bad is news.)
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3325

[robbedvoter]

1. Mediawhores on line! You are being paged!

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Love it

!!

[Fovea]

2. No, He's the new Christine Keeler

Google it.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. I never thought I'd say this, but . . .

That's a terrible thing to say about Drudge. Next to Gannon, he's Pulitzer Prize material.

[DulceDecorum]

5. Gay Male Hooker In The Whitehouse

Posted by Chicatibo on 2005/2/18 20:40:13
Let’s examine Talon News, an on-line news reporting daily, updated hourly. When I checked it out I didn’t see any particular bias left or right. It was about the same as all on-line news sources. Talon News finds stories, retrofits them to meet their image and they are publishes. That’s how the news business works a very few reporters supply news to a very few nationally recognized news distribution sources. They are then forwarded to various news organizations rewritten to satisfy the editorial agenda of the particular new source and published in Print, Video News, or the Internet.

That isn’t what bothers me about the Jeff Gannon story.

What I find objectionable is the sanctimonious remarks made about Mr. Gannon / Guekert, personal life. I have no idea if he is gay, a prostitute, or any of the other quirks the mainstream media is accusing him of. As much as the media claims to be politically correct and tolerant regarding the odd pleasures of life, they are certainly taking this man to task. Let’s face it the old media doesn’t care much for the new media bloggers.

They contend bloggers have no credibility. After all bloggers aren’t professional reporters. To that I would say neither are about half of the reporters who claim to be the voice of the people. There are no qualifications aside from being called a reporter to qualify anyone to be a reporter. In the days of Edward R. Morrow and Ernie Pyle, reporters earned the title. Today Reporter Credentials are handed out like free tickets at Great America.

I’m still waiting to learn what the reporter aka hooker did that was so terribly wrong. Was it that he was a liberal, masquerading as a conservative? Is that what the media worked is up over? Is it that Talon News has no right to attend a presidential news conference? If so, by what authority? If the president has no objection then who are the media to complain? Is this another case where liberalism deems it’s selves in charge.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3080

If the president has no objection, then who are the media to complain?

[reichstag911]

6. OMFG!!! My email to the author of the piece...

Ken,
Having waded through your swamp of bad spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation and, not least, command of the facts, I was wondering about your journalism credentials: Did you, in fact, graduate from that bastion of journalistic credibility, the Leadership Institute, like "Jeff Gannon," or was it the C- you received in sixth grade Composition class that convinced you of your destiny as a writer? Your skills truly make you a "Conservative Voice."
rb

[robbedvoter]

7. Ha!ha! But he makes a point: if W is OK with a male prostitute

in the press room, why should we care?
Because, my dear, this is the presnit that waves 'freedom of the press" in the face of other nation leaders and also, dear - the press is supposed to work for us, the people not them. So is the preznit actually.

[reichstag911]

10. Ken's response:

In response to your ill-mannered e-mail
First, I’m not a Journalist, I’m a Columnist,<--should be a period, not a comma, Ken I give opinions semicolon or period, Ken I don’t
report news.
Second, if there are errors comma, Ken write Bill Gates Way to accept personal responsibility there, Ken!. I spell check "spell-check," Ken twice
before I post.
Third, these are my opinions and unlike you liberals, I can give them
in a respectful way with out "Without" is one word, Ken. a lot of meaningless bullshit included.
Now what was your point question mark, Ken I must have missed it.
Ken Hughes

P.S. I received second place in an international Internet columnists
award last year from whom, Ken, the Leadership Institute?. Voted for by Bloggers and Readers alike not a sentence, Ken.
Now who's the stupid one? . Using extra punctuation now, a period and a question mark, doesn't make up for all you missed, Ken. Also, I didn't call you stupid.


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[joe1991]

8. Did yall see that "Jeff" is back??

http://www.jeffgannon.com/

"I'm baaaaaaack! If you thought I was going to slink away - then you don't know much about me. Someone still has to battle the Left and now that I've emerged from the crucible, I'm stronger than before.

In regard to the allegations about my personal life, I have been advised by my attorneys not to comment on any of the details pending the outcome of any possible legal action I might pursue. Therefore, I won't be discussing any of that stuff here."

[reichstag911]

9. Hadda send him one, too...

Hey, g/g,
It's NOT your personal life when you peddle your 47-year-old ass on the internet. And good luck with your contemplated legal action mentioned along the left side of your home page -- I'm sure it'll go far.

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[Jack Rabbit]

11. Critique

Ken Hughes is full of baloney.

If there is an elitist attitude among White House reporters, it is because they are among the elite of their profession, or at least one would think so. A major metropolitan daily or a national television network is not going to assign a cub reporter to cover the White House.

There obviously is no rule that one must "pay his dues" in order to get into the White House press corps. Gannon presence, day after day, is evidence that there is no such rule in this White House. Gannon was not even a cub reporter. He is a GOP hack.

Over the last three years, I've had a few dozen articles published on the home page of Democratic Underground. Of course, I'm not a journalist; I'm a computer programmer. On the other hand, Gannon wasn't a journalist, either; he was really a -- well, let's not go into that. Moreover, Gannon often did little more than put his by-line on White House press releases and called them news stories. At least I spend some time researching my work on the Internet before I write it. I don't just say what I like because it fits a partisan or ideological point of view. While I may have a point of view, I at least try to present facts to support my argument and acknowledge that some intelligent people don't agree with my interpretation of the facts.

I'd say I do this "journalism" thing better than Gannon. That doesn't qualify me for a White House press pass. Given my ideological viewpoints, however, I don't think for a minute that the press office of the Bush White House is going to give me the kind of help they gave Gannon in getting daily access to McClellan's press briefings or even a presidential press conference. And I like to think I would ask a question aimed at getting a story, not one that simply gives a politician an opportunity to rant against his opposition.

Hughes loses all credibility when he starts talking about the "liberal media." Yeah, right. This is the same liberal media that completely failed to do its job during the run up to the invasion of Iraq. While Judith Miller was telling us all about Saddam's weapons in The New York Times and war correspondents where preparing to become embedded (pronounced in-bed-with) reporters, one had to look in the foreign and alternative press to find little tidbits about the politicization of intelligence, the debunking of reports of ties between September 11 terrorists and Iraqi intelligence, the fact that Saddam's general in charge of chemical weapons ordered those weapons destroyed, or Scott Ritter's critique of claims about Saddam's military capability. If the "liberal" media were just competent and diligent -- not necessarily "liberal" -- there might have been no invasion of Iraq. Even in the election campaign, the "liberal" media couldn't seem to bring itself and state the obvious, namely that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were liars. Perhaps the word "liars" would have been editorializing, but not much. The Swift Boat Vets' utterances about Senator Kerry's war record were certainly at variance with the facts; where I come from, that's lying.

Where was the "liberal media" when it needed to report the facts to counter the lies about the rationale for the Iraq war or Kerry's war record?

Mr. Hughes' ranting don't stop with right wing fantasies about a sinister "liberal media".

Where does this media arrogance come from? The first amendment guarantees a free press not an arrogant press, not an elite press, and certainly not an unaccountable press. Activist courts have guaranteed those rights to the media.

If there is a court decision somewhere that guarantees the press the right to be arrogant, elite or unaccountable, please let me know about it. I seem to have missed that one.

I will agree with Mr. Hughes on one thing: The press has become unaccountable in our time. Mr. Bush and his aides should thank their lucky stars for that.