If you haven't been following the story of "Jeff Gannon" of the Talon News Service, he's the guy who basically just popped up at White House briefings starting a couple of years ago. He's allowed in because he was hired by a news organization created by right-wing nutballs for the sole purpose of putting out their stories with a tinge of media credibility so they would be picked up by real newspapers, etc. Just one of many cogs in the conservative media machine. Reading through daily press conference transcripts, his questions are always easy to pick out (e.g. things like "How do you respond to the unfair and hateful media attacks against our President's integrity?").
Well, for some reason, people started looking a little more deeply into who this guy is (aka JD Guckert), and the story just gets stranger and stranger. I'll just say militaryescortsm4m.com and leave it at that. Go follow the thread and be entertained.
Keeping in mind that this was all uncovered with some pretty trivial google work, and the story was broken by bloggers, not the lazy media.
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"google work," you say -- compelling me to begin a sentence without a capital letter. You cur.
What is this "google work" of which you speak? And what is your middle initial? I know I need your middle initial for any story I might write -- because I am a Journalist! -- but why and where and who and how and when would I get "google work"?
(Please tell me it's not something in the dark dungeons of the internets. I hate those guys.)
Jody Wilgoren, Girl Journalist
Posted by: Jody Wilgoren, Girl Journalist on February 9, 2005 03:46 PM