A DU-friendly reporter is seeking Gannon info. Help needed to identify the reporter

DU ^ | 2/24/05 | paineinthearse at DU

[lonewacko_dot_com]

From the DU thread We have a "friendly" MSM reporter who is seeking Guckert news:

I've established a working relationship with a reporter for a major newspaper that all would recognize. He wrote two of the first Guckert articles well before anyone else in MSM. If you're familiar with my posts, you can figure out who it is. He is willing to receive more information (nothing basic, he has already covered this aspect)...

Any idea who this reporter could be?

Here's a list of paineinthearse's comments at DU. Just for the sake of curiosity, could someone look through that and figure out the reporter?

[discostu]

Great, they're still chasing an old dead story that nobody else cares about, good for them.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Investigative reporting. Time to take someone down!!!!

[Mo1]

FYI

[johnny7]

It's Shana Alexander.

[Howlin]

Reporters are now soliciting information at DU?

There's a word for that.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Just a guess. Could it be Howard Kurtz?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12640-2005Feb9.html

[WinOne4TheGipper]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3097881

[WinOne4TheGipper]

There are two names that come up every time I see paineinthehearse post an article about this: Howard Kurtz and Jennifer Brooks. More likely is Kurtz, but I can't find an "early" article by him. They're more like a week and a half to two weeks. Can you use Lexis- Nexis?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Reporters are now soliciting information at DU?

That tells me they're desperate for "something",.... "anything"....

[BigSkyFreeper]

Any left-winged MSM rube is a paininthearse.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

At http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3097881

it says: "Just got off the phone with Howard Kurtz."

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that it was paineinthearse that was the one that got off the phone.

The link on that page leads to this page: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/02/11.html#a1567

And, that page quotes this page:

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/02/11/esn_res.html

The guy at the last page (Jay Rosen) is the one who got off the phone with Howard Kurtz. So, unless Jay Rosen is paineinthearse (probably not likely), there's no definite clue yet that the reporter paineinthearse was referring to was Kurtz.

For the other poster, I don't have Lexis.

[piasa]

Reporters are now soliciting information at DU?

Like trying to extract gold nuggets from kitty litter...

[finnman69]

This is a new name of a prolific previous DU poster.

signed up Jan 11th 2005
And now has : Number of posts 2727

2727 posts in 45 days for an average of 60 posts a day

[lowbridge]

bump

[lowbridge]

Reporters are now soliciting information at DU?

Speaks volumes.

[Misty Memory]

I've established a working relationship with a reporter for a major newspaper that all would recognize. He wrote two of the first Guckert articles well before anyone else in MSM. If you're familiar with my posts, you can figure out who it is. He is willing to receive more information (nothing basic, he has already covered this aspect)...

Could it be Charlie Savage or Alan Wirzbicki of the The Boston Globe?

[DBeers]

How about Mike Hudson from the Niagara Falls Reporter?

Reply from the Niagra Falls Reporter!!!!!!!

From: Mike Hudson
To: (me)
Subject: RE: You guys (& Rep. Slaughter) rock!!!!!
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:59:47 +0000

hey, thank you! congresswoman slaughter's a pretty tough customer.
mike hudson
niagara falls reporter

MSM enough?

[DBeers]

bttt

[GeronL]

Reporters are now soliciting information at DU? There's a word for that.

"dragging a one-dollar through a liberal trailer park"