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"Propagannon" confirmed : Fake reporter in WH press conferences.
ChadTower:
You speak about this concept as if it's not regularly done in all aspects of media, from school board meetings all the way up to the White House. It's done in sports and entertainment. It's how the media game is played and has been for a long, long time.
Buddabing:
LOL!
I wonder if he got the idea from Doonesbury or vice versa.
McClellan for Secretary of Toady Affairs!
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2005, 01:55:22 pm ---You speak about this concept as if it's not regularly done in all aspects of media, from school board meetings all the way up to the White House.
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No. This is *not* "regularly done." This man, with the support of conservative organizations, was posing as a journalist for an illegitimate agency, using a fake name, and deliberately reporting misinformation about administration detractors, while providing "life-lines" in the form of leading questions to the WH press secretary and President, in an orchestrated attempt to avoid answering real questions, while slandering opponents. He also, very likely, acted as a political "hit-man", exposing an undercover CIA agent, destroying years of investigative work relating to WMD, and putting numerous people at risk. In other words, TREASON, with the assistance of someone from within the White House itself.
Please, point to one documented example of this exact sort of thing happening anywhere else, let alone in "all aspects of media"...keep in mind that this is in NO WAY the same thing as bias, and/or subjective reporting. This is outright deception and blatant propaganda.
mrC
ChadTower:
If such things were documented, they wouldn't exactly be effective, would they? I've seen it done firsthand in business over and over again, and to think that it's not done far more often in politics is incorrect. This is the way politics at that level are done. That's why we get such ---smurfy--- Presidents over and over again. No quality candidates worth voting for are also dumb enough to expose themselves and their families to that life. There are many people out there in the business world who have turned zeroes into billions in less time than it takes your average President to finish a third grade mathbook. Why don't they run? There are plenty of military personnel, plenty of University professors who would make excellent Presidents. They don't run for the same reason.
I think now that things have gotten SO DIRTY that no one makes it out cleanly, we're only going to see more and more inferior, powergrabbing people as Presidential candidates.
RetroJames:
Is this some kind of joke?
http://www.jeffgannon.com/
www.talonnews.com/bios/jeffgannon.shtml
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001437.html
http://199.249.170.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000796790
NEW YORK Jeff Gannon, the controversial White House correspondent for the obscure, conservative Web site Talon News who resigned from his job Tuesday, confirmed late Wednesday, in a phone interview with National Public Radio, that he has been using a false name. A few hours later, Howard Kurtz, writing in The Washington Post, confirmed earlier tips, arising from liberal blogs, that the reporter's real name is indeed James D. Guckert.