From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2005.02.20.00.05.33.235108{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:33:50 -0500, Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
>>   Bush's favorite softball correspondent  has an interesting background.
>> I
>> wonder if he still qualifies as MSM?
>
> http://www.kingpublishing.com/fc/white_house/story1.htm
>
> Members of the White House press corps offered some insight last week
> after Guckert's resignation.
>
> "We all ask all kinds of questions; we all come to the briefing room with
> different points of view; we all serve different corporate masters," said
> Terry Moran of ABC News. "I don't know anything about Gannon's-or
> Guckert's-private life, and frequently he sounded like a shill for the
> administration. But he also challenged the White House from time to time
> with pointed questions-from the right. And that always struck me as
> valuable and necessary."


MSM

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05029.html

The White House apologist mainstream press corps is now flagellating the
Internet blogs and news services, such as BuzzFlash, claiming that writers
on the net are fast with the truth.

What the reality is is this: sites like BuzzFlash.com are fast, fast in
telling the truth. The New York Times and Washington Post are so interested
in protecting the status quo that they are now the tail end of breaking
White House scandal stories, rather than breaking them. They can lay claim
to be 12th and 13th to publish hot news stories, two weeks after they've
hit the Internet.

Which returns us to Gannon/Guckert. Here was a shill for the White House
literally sitting amongst the mainstream reporters. A faux reporter by day
and gay prostitute for Marines by night. A man who passed White House
security using a pseudonym. A man the White House Press Secretary says that
he was aware was not using his real name. A man who had access to at least
one confidential CIA memorandum. And that's only the beginning of the
unfolding story. The latest is that Dana Milbank, one of the reporters at
the Post, says he believes Gannon/Guckert had a "hard pass" (no
pun intended), not a day pass, as Scott McClellan has assured everyone.
Gannon/Guckert couldn't even get accredited by the Capitol Hill Press
Corps, but he got to ask questions of the President of the United States,
as Helen Thomas was banished to a back seat.

Any journalism school graduate, untainted by the corruption of a mainstream
press corps that is co-opted by the White House, would have pursued the
Gannon/Guckert story as did the bloggers and BuzzFlash.

When you are young and well-trained in a good journalism school, your goal
is the pursuit of the truth. Your concern is your professional ethics and
credibility. Your loyalty is to your country.

That's before you get corrupted.

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