Press Takes a Pass on 'Jeff Gannon' Story

Press Fails in its Fundamental Responsibility to Inform the Public


THE PRESS TAKES A PASS ON 'JEFF GANNON'
By Carol Towarnicky
Philly.Com
May 2, 2005

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/11541660.htm

If a reporter who doubled as a gay hooker had visited the Clinton White House nearly 200 times, think it would have made the news?

If "Jeff Gannon"/James D. Guckert had been unveiled, so to speak, as a liberal imposter who lobbed softball questions at Clinton administration press briefings, he would be as infamous as Michael Schiavo.

And if 39 of those White House visits were mysteriously unrelated to his"reporting" duties, imagine what innuendoes would be issuing forth from Planet Limbaugh. Imagine the organized phone call campaign demanding newspapers and TV stations report the story.

But Gannon/Guckert isn't being unveiled or innuendoed or even blipped on media radar screens, even among liberals.

(snip)

I seem to recall that we screamed bloody blue murder about it.

full stop.

be82096@coolgoose.com
2003md

the news? I can't remember it.

it would have been all over the front pages of the "liberal" media.

End of story (or, actually, we would never hear the "end of the story") . . .