Posted on 02/26/2005 7:54:22 AM PST by tgslTakoma
NBC News reporter Campbell Brown reports that Jeff Gannon's troubles with the liberal media "started when he was called on by the President at a January 26 news conference and took a swipe at Democrats" with a loaded question. In an interview, Campbell pressed Gannon with her own loaded question: "You don't deny you were writing news with a perspective, with a partisan perspective?" It was as if Brown was implying that other members of the White House press corps would never even think of approaching the news in such a manner. Brown also asked several questions about whether Gannon was linked to pornographic websites or homosexuality.
If these questions are appropriate for Gannon, why not the rest of the White House press corps? Watching the "Gannongate" scandal continue to unfold, blogger Daniel J. Phillips suggests that the White House send out a questionnaire to members of the media and news organizations that reflects "the matters that find them in such breathless anxiety" when it comes to Gannon.
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The Boston Phoenix, a counter-culture publication, has taken the anti-Gannon campaign to a new low, citing a left-wing blog as reporting "rumors" about an unnamed "high-ranking, married White House aide who may or may not have had a homosexual affair with Gannon" and who "may or may not" have provided Gannon with a confidential document about CIA employee Valerie Plame. There is no evidence cited for any of this, but that doesn't seem to matter at this point.
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Interesting
Well according to the Left and the Dem Senators .. Wolf should be fired and allowed no where near the WH
Hmmmm .. I wonder of Wolfe had connections to Karl Rove too?
Thomas married Douglas Cornell, retiring AP White House Correspondent, in October of 1971. He died in December of 1982.
Hey... that's me!
Dan
You're famous!
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
{{{In 1971, she got engaged to fellow newsman (and Associated Press competitor) Douglas Cornell. The two kept their engagement secret from almost everyone, until Cornell's retirement party, hosted by President and Mrs. Nixon. Pat Nixon's surprise announcement of their engagement brought gasps from her colleagues. "At last, I've scooped Helen Thomas," Pat quipped.
The two were married in October 1971. But within a few years, Cornell was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. His health declined rapidly until he died in 1982. Characteristically, Thomas met the loss head-on: "I think people don't really die, if you really loved them," she says. "I think they're always with you, and you have that sense of comfort."}}}
(From a publication of Biographies I found online, geared toward the aging population, entitled "Living Legend", but I remember it myself from real life)
Yeah. Kind of weird that he didn't link to it, or give the site name or URL, though.
/c8
Dan
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AIM's disclosures about Mokhiber were noted in a February 25 Wall Street Journal article about the White House pressroom becoming a "political stage." Mokhiber is a Ralph Nader associate who asks White House spokesman Scott McClellan off-beat questions about matters of interest to the far-left, such as growing hemp or charging President Bush with war crimes. One difference between Gannon and Mokhiber is that Gannon actually passed through a journalism training program at the Leadership Institute while Mohkiber admitted to me he's never taken a journalism class in his life. Mokhiber, a lawyer, insists that he practices journalism anyway. His "Corporate Crime Reporter" newsletter sells for $795 a year. By contrast, Gannon wrote for GOPUSA and Talon News, available for free to those who sign up as email subscribers.
This is serious, in that it is an unspeakably horrible disease, but every indication is that Douglas Cornell was in the very early stages of Alzheimers when they married. Because it says that within a few years he got full-blown Alzheimers and deteriorated markedly from then on. One could joke about this poor man marrying Helen, but it would be wrong.
The fact that the left had to dig to find anything.
AmericaBLOG’s John Aravosis has discovered previous images of the site through an Internet service which keeps records of sites that have been taken down
Link here:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1343075/posts
For $50, you'll receive two days of instruction, meals on Saturday and Sunday and all course materials. Limited free housing is available on a first-come, first-served basis."
Looks like for fifty bucks you too can be a Jeff Gannon.
We also both know, it is odd, for someone of so little experince to be a whitehouse correspondent.
Gannon didn't "masquerade" as a journalist, he was a journalist. He worked for an online news agency, a legitimate one. That made him a journalist. There is no license he has to earn to be one and as far as his press pass was concerned he was issued a day pass not a permanant pass, a fact which the media chooses to ignore. Anyone can get a day press pass. He was in the white house legally and if I was him I wouldn't have quit my job, although perhaps he was asked to leave but I wouldn't really know why.
Too many of us here buy into the left wing medias BS when we shouuld know better.
There was only ONE CBS producer that was fired.
There were three staffers who were asked to resign and they have not done so. At least one of them is contemplating legal action.
Thanks for the ping, JJ. I've not lost sight of the facts, and yes, I have been surprised to see "rumors" reported as fact on conservative websites alongside the liberal sites. I just visited Mr. Corn's website. Whoa! Language alert -- there's a couple of so-called "journalists" who can't seem to write without invoking invective -- sheer proof that they have little to no skills in journalism. Er, maybe they do? lol
If I lived closer to DC? I'd do it in a flash! Liberal and WH (Democrat) Journos "elitism" be damned. I've had enough of the tarpaper from them being handed out as news. I'd work hard to get that daily pass, and I sure wouldn't whine like MoDo when I didn't get one.
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