Gonzo Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here: Frank Rich

http://nytimes.com/2005/03/06/arts/06rich.html?pagewanted=1

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Though a few remain on the case - Eric Boehlert of Salon, mediamatters.org, Joe Strupp of Editor and Publisher - the Gannon story is fast receding. In some major news venues, including ABC and CBS, it never surfaced at all. Yet even as Mr. Gannon has quit his "job" as a reporter and his "news organization" has closed up shop, the plot thickens. His own Web site - which only recently shut down with the self-martyring message "The voice goes silent" - has now restarted as a blog with Gonzo pretensions. The title alone of his first entry, "Fear and Loathing in the Press Room," would send Thompson spinning in his grave had he not asked that his remains be shot out of a cannon.

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As a blogger, Mr. Gannon's new tactic is to encourage fellow right-wing bloggers to portray him as the victim of a homophobic left-wing witch hunt that destroyed his privacy. Given that it was Mr. Gannon himself who voluntarily exhibited his own private life by appearing on Web sites advertising his services as a $200-per-hour escort, that's a hard case to make. But it is a clever way to deflect attention from an actual sexual witch hunt conducted by his own fake news organization in early 2004. It was none other than Talon News that advanced the fictional story that a young woman "taped an interview with one of the major television networks" substantiating a rumor on the Drudge Report that John F. Kerry had had an extramarital affair with an intern. (Mr. Kerry had to publicly deny the story just as his campaign came out of the gate.) This is the kind of dirty trick only G. Gordon Liddy could dream up. Or maybe did. Mr. Gannon's Texan boss, Bobby Eberle, posted effusive thanks (for "their assistance, guidance and friendship") to both Mr. Liddy and Karl Rove on Talon News's sister site, GOPUSA, last Christmas.

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I am really beginning to like Frank Rich. Plus, the NYT has started linking him from their main editorial page, not just the arts section.

Mass Suicide? They can't report the news..because it's ALL BAD for them!

We need to get our own Megaphone!

"..Shot out of a cannon"? B-)

And yes, Frank Rich is wiley journalist who as I remember used to be in the editorial section of the NYT(the grey lady who turned whore).

It certainly proves that bloggers are here to stay! Mainstream "journalists" better worry when they start getting eaten by their own :)

are my 3 must reads in the MSM - everything else is pretty much a crock of shit.

Another quote from the article:

"What's missing from the News is the news."

Frank Rich made this statement regarding Peter Jennings two-hour story about UFO's.