Banned Cyberjournalist Jeff Gannon Interviewed on CNN
Here's a transcript of CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper's talk with James Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon), the conservative White House cyberjournalist who was hounded from his job by the Shadow Party attack machine – or, to put it more precisely, by the radical media hit squad whose repressive operations George Soros, David Brock, John Podesta, Sidney Blumenthal and Joe Conason have honed to something resembling a science.
Jeff Gannon did nothing – I repeat, nothing – to deserve the campaign of lies, innuendo and even physical threats against his family to which the self-appointed guardians of the Big Media monopoly have subjected him. Don't get mad, folks. Get organized. (Hat tip, FreeRepublic.)
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Love it. This is hilarious.
First Cooper complains that Gannon "[wasn't] even publishing anything," as if reporters start out reporting things before they have gotten their feet wet asking questions and investigating things. Chicken and egg. We won't let you be a reporter until you're already a reporter.
Then, this is the best:
"COOPER: But using the term "reporting" implies some sort of vetting, some sort of research, some sort of -- I mean, that's called faxing or Xeroxing, if you are just lifting transcripts and putting them into an article."
If that statement was even slightly truthful, then 90% of the people working as "reporters" in the Mainstream Media would have to call themselves something else. It's the utter lack of research and relevant context, the slavish parroting of what "spokespeople" say, that characterizes the dominant media.
Finally, the Mainstream reporters at WH (and other) press conferences spend way more time spouting off with their own flaky speeches and irrelevant factoids, than they do asking questions. So them getting on Gannon's case seems strange, like they don't realize they're all doing the same thing he did.
Perhaps they think that a Press Conference is like an orchestra performing a symphony, with the politician being interrogated as the conductor, and the reporters as the orchestra. They alternate between all voices at once and solos as directed by the conductor. But Gannon brought the wrong sheet music. They're all playing Mozart and he does a riff from Beethoven. They think he ruined their concert. They want him out of the orchestra. They don't realize how bored and annoyed the audience is with the music they always play.
With apologies to Mozart, Beethoven, and music lovers, but you get the idea.
Notice how carefully they define reporter. I can see how someone whose career has depended on leaks from disgruntled [or gruntled] government functionaries looks down on someone who reports only publicly available information. [did Cooper get a kickback for mentioning Xerox?]
If journalism has room for Helen Thomas [I still can not remember whether she was Fiddle or Faddle] then there should be room for Gannon.
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