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| White House Spokesman: What Is A Reporter? |
| 2005-02-11 |
| Drudge Report White House spokesman Scott McClellan On Thursday challenged liberal media activists, who are currently feigning outrage over events surrounding "Jeff Gannon," to examine the definition of reporter in the new century. "In this day and age, when you have a changing media, it's not an easy issue to decide or try to pick and choose who is a journalist. It gets into the issue of advocacy journalism," McClellan said. "Where do you draw the line? There are a number of people who cross that line in the briefing room. There are a number of people in that room that express their points of view, and there are people in that room that represent traditional media, they represent talk radio, they're columnists, and they represent online news organizations." Developing...Heh, heh |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #9 Thank goodness people are finally considering "what is a journalist". |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-02-11 11:12:08 PM |
| #8 But not Atrios. |
| Posted by: Inigo Montoya 2005-02-11 2:52:48 PM |
| #7 That's one example. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-02-11 2:49:23 PM |
| #6 like Hesiod? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-11 1:03:31 PM |
| #5 Yep. He gave his real name to the Secret Service and wrote under a pseudonym. Apparently a whole lot of anonymous lefty bloggers have a problem with that. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-02-11 1:01:46 PM |
| #4 he used his real name in getting the pass daily |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-11 12:35:19 PM |
| #3 Anybody else concerned that "Gannon" could get a White House pass under an assumed name? |
| Posted by: VAMark 2005-02-11 12:16:04 PM |
| #2 "Gannon"'s fault in the eyes of teh other Journos was his conservative bent. If they had any ethics they would've smothered Helen Thomas in her bed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-11 10:02:15 AM |
| #1 Put under the heading of "defining deviancy down". It should be noted that at the annual conference to get drunk and blather about "journalistic ethics", the "journalists" annually vote that there is no such thing, and that their relativistic lack of ethics is actually a legitimate form of ethics itself. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-02-11 9:45:01 AM |