February 11, 2005
Online Journalist Resigns After Blogger Inquiry...
Is A CNN Exec Next?
Talon News reporter Jeff Gannon a.k.a Jim Guckert resigned Wednesday after Liberal bloggers uncovered his real name and raised questions about his background. Gannon was employed as an Internet journalist for the Talon News, an online a news company which covers political, national, and world news. Popular Bloggers such as Daily Kos suspicious of Gannon of "lobbing softball questions" to the White House Administration during press briefings dug into Gannon's history, leading to allegations of him not being a real journalist and his involvement with several websites appearing to support gay pornography and promote male prostitution.
Some Democratic politicians also banned with bloggers demanding that the Bush Administration explain how "a fake reporter" managed to obtain White House press credentials for two years without a background check.
Right wing bloggers were slow to report, if at all, on the Gannon story. The popular conservative blog Powerline responded to emails asking for comment on the story by posting "What Scandal" writing that although somewhat strange and entertaining, Gannon was not very newsworthy. Little Green Footballs similarly wrote "Lefty Blogs Dig Up Scandal, World Yawns."
Conservative bloggers were instead focused on Eason Jordan, one of CNN's most powerful news executives who allegedly told a group of world leaders overseas that American soldiers had targeted reporters for assassination. Conservative pundits are calling for Jordan to provide proof or resign.
Posted by Buzz Webster at February 11, 2005 06:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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