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Gannon/Guckert
I've been enjoying the Gannon/Guckert flambe. But just in case you don't get John Stewart's "Daily Show" The TIP will bring you up to date with thanks from Editor and Publisher.com
Source: EditorandPublisher.com, 2005-02-17
Candidate: Republican Party
It couldn't be happening to a nicer guy:
Here's the story:
Milbank, Dowd, and Others Weigh In on Gannon/Guckert
By Greg Mitchell
Published: February 17, 2005 11:05 AM ET
NEW YORK Washington Post staff writer Dana Milbank, a former White House correspondent, tells a leading blog there remains reason to believe that, contrary to statements from the White House, ex-reporter James “Jeff Gannon” Guckert, may had a "hard" (long-term) press pass rather than a daily pass.
Milbank said on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show last week that he thought he had seen Guckert/Gannon with a hard pass. Both the disgraced ex-reporter for Talon News and White House press Secretary Scott McClellan have denied this.
But Milbank affirmed, in an interview posted today at the popular blog Daily Kos, “A hard pass has your photo and news org and name on it. A daily pass is just a brown and white striped pass that says, ‘Press,’ on it and comes on a dog-tag style chain. Note that the one Gannon wears in the footage on TV is a blue lanyard - not the sort of thing a day pass comes on.”
Meanwhile, in her New York Times column today, Maureen Dowd reveals, “I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the ‘Barberini Faun’ is credentialed....”
And more today: Eric Boehlert in the online magazine Salon picks up another revelation from the blogosphere. It seems that Gannon/Guckert, as revealed in a television clip, had access to the White House briefing room as early as February 28, 2003. This may be significant, Boehlert argues, because the organization Gannon/Guckert worked for, Talon News, did not exist until March and did not begin publishing news stories until then.
The White House, explaining how Gannon/Guckert managed to get press credentials, has repeatedly claimed that only reporters with "regularly publishing" news organizatons can get passes. So how, Boehlert asks, did Gannon/Guckert qualify in February 2003?
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY) also called for answers about this specific conflict today, and asked White House officials to fully explain their relationship with the discredited reporter. "It has been a week since I wrote President Bush seeking answers in this matter," Rep. Slaughter stated. "I have not yet received a reply. With each new revelation it becomes more and more clear that the relationship between the White House and Jeff Gannon was anything but typical."
Milbank’s interview with “Susan G” of DailyKos, which was one of the main sites that broke the Gannon/Guckert story, touched on several interesting areas on the relationship of the mainstream press and blogs.
Responding to charges “that the mainstream press is lazy and slow,” Milbank declared: “I'd argue to you that it's really a product of our resources (far fewer than you seem to suppose) and our resulting prioritizing (correctly, for the most part). It's not that Gannon, and the CNN guy's remarks in Switzerland, etc. aren't stories, it's that they're not the most important stories.”
Asked if the media was now under pressure from blogs, Milbank responded: “I don't think we feel pressured. But it does drive the agenda in a sense that stories pop up in the blog ether and, because people start talking about them, they need to be addressed or debunked. The Kerry mistress story comes to mind.
“The web is both the salvation and the demise of print journalism. Proliferating blogs make it more unlikely that an important story will be missed or slip through the cracks. Even a large news organization like the Post has only 40 or 50 national reporters; there are zillions of bloggers.
“The downside is the web is contributing to the decentralization of information so that people can choose their own news, and facts, based on their ideology. I can see us reaching a point where conservatives get their news exclusively from Free Republic and liberals get it from World-o-Crap, and we're living in parallel universes.”
Asked if this meant mainstream outlet now faced continuing falloff in viewers/readers, Milbank said: “I think it's an inevitable result of the proliferation of news outlets, not just blogs but cable news, talk radio, etc. Newspapers (and newsmags, and the nets) can slow the decline but it's probably out of our power to reverse it.”
What about the mainstream and blogs somehow joining forces? “I think there will have to be convergence. I'd like to know how you, and your readers, think this could best be done. Some of us have thought about the idea of doing a daily blog report, summarizing what the top blogs are saying and assessing the accuracy/significance, but that's just a small item.”
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Greg Mitchell (gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com) is the editor of E&P.
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User Originated Comments:
From: martmasi
2006-08-27 00:00:00
has anybody noticed how bush sounds less and less
like a man and more like lucille ball ? years of
irrumation has turned him into a catamite.
From: O'Hellno
2005-03-16 12:18:52
fake name
you seem to be weak and scared.
you post , but you don't "say" anything. you sit
at the table but you don't "bring" anything. this
is how bush got re-elected by people who follow
blindly and without thought. you still believe
there is wmd's don't you. you still believe bush
beat gore fairly in 2000 and lastly you still
believe that mission was accomplished (ha!).
this country will only suffer with the the mindset
of the fool, and sir you fit the profile. bush's
campaign manager gauranteed 6 million votes from
the spineless, remember the two terrorist tapes
right before the election , bush didn't raise the
terror alert because he wanted you to go out and
vote and not hide under your bed.
not so long
ago he requested more money for your war and when
things did not look good he had a hand-picked
commission say there could be another terrorist
attack soon. again you were there under your bed
thinking someone is going to hurt me, while
wondering why do people question my leader and
savior.
now for the
bush issued auto
responder "shallow, senseless,
baseless...."
there, now you have
nothing left. until bush issues you somthing
new.
bu$h $ucks
From:
2005-03-08 16:05:14
yeah, i guess you told that fake name sob,
sweetie.
alas, one should only engage in
discussions with people who share the exact same
opinion. right?
From:
2005-03-07 22:28:16
fake name
but alas sweetie, you are
'bothered', otherwise, you would post somewhere
else that agrees with whatever small minds
gather.
no go away now, nothing to see
here
From: fake name
2005-03-07 17:29:34
shallow, senseless, baseless and pointless. no
itelligent points to any of your "arguments". just
arbitrary insults. its amusing.
i'm not
upset, i can't even take you seriously. :-)
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