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Friday, April 01, 2005
ANOTHER "P" WORD. I
couldn't
care less if Jeff Gannon is
a prostitute. But a plagiarist? That's another matter. Gannon, whose
real name is James Guckert, was briefly famous a while back after he
was exposed as a Republican activist - and former (?) sex toy -
posing as a reporter at White House press briefings. Well, really
now. Who's to say who's a reporter?
Now, though, the Raw
Story is
reporting
that a Salem News staff writer has accused Gannon of
plagiarizing one of her stories from a couple of years ago, when she
was working for the Waltham Daily News Tribune. And her former
editor backs her up.
Plagiarism is a loaded word, and
I'm not going to use it myself. Based on the evidence as presented,
it looks like Gannon lightly rewrote a piece by Melissa Beecher and
passed it off as his own work. At the bottom, there's even a
copyright notice for his ex-employer, the GOP-affiliated
Talon
News. Not
good.
Raw Story editor John Byrne
writes that Gannon did not respond to two e-mail requests for
comment. On his blog today, Gannon writes,
"Friday is a travel day for me, so don't think my silence means you
should start seaching [sic] Ft. Marcy Park." What a sense of
humor!
CLARIFICATION. Media Log
reader M.D. (it doesn't stand for "medical doctor," but it could) has
taken me to task for referring
to the late Terri Schiavo
has having been "brain-dead" for the previous 15 years. Based on all
credible evidence, her condition might have fit a lay definition of
the term; but it most certainly did not fit the medical definition.
"Virtually brain-dead" would have been more accurate.
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3 Comments:
It's the Propaganda, Stupid.
Prostitute? Plagiarist? Stop playing dumb, Dan. The Guckert scandal is and has always been that he is a GOP-sponsored, White House supported propagandist --just one of their army of deceivers that includes commentators receiving payola, Swift Boat slanderers and producers of phony "news" videos.
The fact that Guckert is also a gay prostitute merley undescores how low the Republican Right will go to deceive and manipulate the public for political gain.
The GOP is rife with pandering propaganists, plebian phonies parading through the media panorama with a false perfume of panjandrum.
Guckert is a narcisist in need of cash. His next move should be interesting and my guess is he'll expose himself [again] and the GOP.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
