{"id":122,"date":"2005-03-11T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T01:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/11\/the-blogs-in-the-machine\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T21:19:39","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T01:19:39","slug":"the-blogs-in-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/11\/the-blogs-in-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blogs in the Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4720'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"122\">\n<p> &quot;Who in the White House knew that Jeff Gannon was<br \/>\n        an assumed name, was not a legitimate journalist and was merely a shill<br \/>\n        for the Administration, for more than two years, nearly three years?&quot;<br \/>\n        Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) <\/p>\n<p>A very interesting article in today&#8217;s Financial Tiimes, titled &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/736eca2a-9126-11d9-8a7a-00000e2511c8.html\">Blogs<br \/>\n      in the machine<\/a>&quot; concerning the topic of the week &#8211; the intersection between<br \/>\n        blogging and mainstream media. It covers the ground well, but doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\n        really go anywhere.      <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the main persecutors of John Kerry was a blog called Talonnews.com,<br \/>\n          whose editor also happens to run GOPUSA, described as a &quot;conservative<br \/>\n          news, information and design company, dedicated to promoting conservative<br \/>\n          ideals&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>          The Washington correspondent for Talon was a man named Jeff Gannon, who<br \/>\n          made himself conspicuous during White House press conferences for deflecting<br \/>\n          difficult questions from other reporters by asking the softest of questions.<br \/>\n          Gannon was a welcome guest on such conservative MSM outlets as Fox News,<br \/>\n          and he &#x201C;reported&#x201D; on his website that John Kerry might be gay. It took<br \/>\n          another blogger, Dailykos.com, to expose Gannon as a homosexual &quot;escort&quot;<br \/>\n          named James Guckert, who had no journalistic credentials and advertised<br \/>\n          his services on websites such as Militarystud.com. He had been refused<br \/>\n          a press pass for Congress, but had no problem getting into the White<br \/>\n        House.       <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We remember seeing this story the first time it washed through the news<br \/>\n        cycle, but it wasn&#8217;t even a blip on the radar screen until Markos Moulitsas<br \/>\n      (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/\">dailykos.com<\/a>) caught the significance<br \/>\n      of the story and held it up to the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/736eca2a-9126-11d9-8a7a-00000e2511c8.html\"> the Financial Times <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>original <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorker.com\/printable\/?talk\/050228ta_talk_hertzberg\">New Yorker article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Who in the White House knew that Jeff Gannon was an assumed name, was not a legitimate journalist and was merely a shill for the Administration, for more than two years, nearly three years?&quot; Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) A very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/11\/the-blogs-in-the-machine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}