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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (7838)	2/3/2005 7:33:54 AM
From: John Sladek	Respond to of 9018

White House-friendly reporter under scrutiny By Charlie Savage and Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent \| February 2, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has provided White House media credentials to a man who has virtually no journalistic background, asks softball questions to the president and his spokesman in the midst of contentious news conferences, and routinely reprints long passages verbatim from official press releases as original news articles on his website. Jeff Gannon calls himself the White House correspondent for TalonNews.com, a website that says it is "committed to delivering accurate, unbiased news coverage to our readers." It is operated by a Texas-based Republican Party delegate and political activist who also runs GOPUSA.com, a website that touts itself as "bringing the conservative message to America." ... David Brock, the former investigative journalist who made his name revealing aspects of former President Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs, said he was watching last week's press conference on television and the "soup lines" question sparked his interest because it "struck me as so extremely biased." Brock asked his media watchdog group, Media Matters for America, to look into Talon News. It quickly discovered two things, he said. First, both Talon and the political organization GOP USA were run by a Texas Republican activist and party delegate named Bobby Eberle. Second, many of the reports Gannon filed for Talon News "appeared to be lifted verbatim from various White House and Republican political committee documents." Eberle did not return phone calls yesterday, and Gannon declined to comment. He did reply to Brock's group on his personal blog: "In many cases I have liberally used the verbiage provided on key aspects of the issue because it is the precise expression of where the White House stands -- free of any 'spin.' It's the ultimate in journalistic honesty -- unvarnished and unfiltered. If only others would be as forthcoming." Full Story: boston.com

To: jlallen who wrote (7838)	2/3/2005 9:44:44 AM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9018

Yep, what your believe is exactly what I said in my last post: Wilson has got a name "known liar" and Robert Byrd is a known "former KKK". They all should be kicked out from power. One thing in common of these guys is they are against the Iraq war. While Richard Perle's behavior was no treason even he sit on the US president adviser position but acted for a foreign country's interests against the US' during the key negotiation. In spite of Mr. Perle's sneaky history, he deserves more US power especially more power to move hundred of thousands American troops and hundred of billions of US dollars to fight the Iraq invasion war(for America?), hmmm.... Yep, you've got your wish, Mr. Perle has been the main architect of the Iraq war. And no treason whatsoever but a American hero (he is now sitting pretty in Israel). >>but there is nothing treasonous about it......I suggest you read the Constitution so you know what the word means.....<< Ah, what does the Constitution say about treason? Please teach us.