Who is Jeff Gannon - Video
Jeff Gannon has been all over the news in the last few days, the question, who is Jeff Gannon. Keith Olbermann on MSNBC provided an excellent overview of this brouhaha Here is video of what's his name demonstrating his skill in shilling for evil empire. The first is entire story including examples of the actual softballs Gannon gave Scotty and George as well as an interview with the Washington Post's Dana (call me Dirk) Milbank on the implications of the story. The second shorter version consists only of the clips of Gannon's press conference performance.
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
wow. that is rich. i knew those questions were b.s. i had no idea how right i was!
thanks for the link!
Hilarious. Gannon's questions were great, but the reporter asking Oberman to call him Dirk Diggler was laugh out loud.
Q: Why does the conservative media not care that right-wing hacks are posing as journalists? A: Because their intent is not to foster good journalism by conservative news outlets, but at best to provide "balance" by getting the right-wing view out there (whether it's well researched or not), and at worst to destroy the credibility of the institution of journalism altogether, so that people will have no alternative to the government and party information.
The steady decline in the credibility of the media (which, however much they deserve it, is bad for democracy) is evidence of success in this area. Look at the proliferation of political books. Political books can be a good part of political discourse, just like scientific or academic books can advance the discipline. but when books proliferate at the expense of newpapers (and, in science, journals), it becomes easier to advance false, poorly researched claims without being called on it.
This will not be Bush's Watergate but it's a Waterlooloo.