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Archive for the Month of February, 2005.
Viewing Media NEWS articles 1 through 9 of 9.
- The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election... why?... because it could have changed the election.
- A man with a phony name and fake credentials poses as a white house correspondent. This right wing, "loose canon", "reporter" consistently supported George Bush, but has revealed that he was using a fake name and credentials.
- More on Jeff Gannon the so called whitehouse reporter who was pro Bush.
- His real name is James Dale Guckert. He has no journalistic background whatsoever. His application for a press credential to cover the Congress was rejected. But the White House arranged for him to be given a new pass every single day, a deliberate evasion of the regular credentialing that requires an FBI security check. It was soon revealed. "Gannon" owned and advertised his services as a gay escort on more than half a dozen websites. - For two years Jeff Gannon cut an unobtrusive figure at White House press conferences. He was writing under a false name and working for a Republican front organisation. His 'softball' questions to White House officials can now be seen as plotting by an administration which has frequently displayed a dark mastery of the arts of press control.
- The existence of Jeff Gannon, the propagandist impersonating a reporter is disturbing. However what is even more disturbing is that he is not the first but the sixth "journalist" (four of whom have been unmasked so far this year) to have been a propagandist on the payroll of either the Bush administration or a barely arms-length ally like Talon News, while simultaneously appearing in print or broadcast forums that purport to be real news
- The ranks of federal public affairs officials swelled during the Bush administration's first term, but that hasn't meant that government information is easier to get. "The role of public affairs officers is not to make information available to the public, as one would naively assume, rather, it is to regulate public access to information, which is something quite different."
- The architect of the Bush victories in 2000 and 2004 came through the ranks of college Republicans with the late Lee Atwater, and their admitted and alleged dirty tricks are the legends many young political operatives dream of pulling off. - Bahraini police have detained a man who runs a website seen as critical of the Gulf Arab state's government and royal family, activists said.
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