Saturday, February 19, 2005

 

Do we need to define 'reporter'?

dave in Eschaton comments pointed to a very good article.LEONARD PITTS JR.: Do we need to define 'reporter'? Three weeks later, I'm still waiting for a good explanation of what Jeff Gannon was doing in the White House. And for you to be upset about it...
...The unusually partisan phrasing prompted reporters and liberal groups to ask the same question: Who is this guy? Well, it turns out that Gannon is not really Gannon. His real name is James Guckert. It also turns out that a company he owns is the registered owner of several sexually suggestive Web addresses...
...Guckert writes for a Web site, talonnews.com, which is linked to another site, GOPUSA.com. That site serves, as you might gather, to promote the Republican Party...
...Bush spokesman Scott McClellan has pleaded ignorance, saying, "In this day and age, when you have a changing media, it's not an easy issue to decide, to try to pick and choose who is a journalist."...

I haven't heard much about this on the TV news and in my newspaper. I've read a lot about it on liberal websites. It is questionable on why this so-called "Family Values" administration and their very many followers have not made a hue and cry about this whole scandelous situation. So many of the Republican representatives have made much of the homosexual lifestyle and what it would do to society if homosexuals were allowed to {*gasp*} marry. Why aren't they pissed about this so-called journalist embedded in the journalist pool. Shouldn't they be wondering how this "journalist" was allowed in when his company can be linked to "sexually suggestive Web addresses"? Of course, I may be niave, but I'm also still wondering what's going on with the outing of Valerie Plame and why we don't hear anything about it. I'm also wondering what's happening with the Iraqi scientists we grabbed when we were claiming they were working on WMDs. You know, those WMDs we couldn't find.

Comments:
The extent to which the Gannon/Guckert mess has stayed out of the mainstream press has amazed me. Without even examining the question of how a gay escort passed the White House press office "screening," how did a guy with his lack of journalistic credentials make it in? And why is this not a bigger story?
 
I am honored by the mention!

BTW, I sent that article off to Olbermann and said I'd like to see Pitts on his show, preferably with Milbank. We'll see...
 
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