[IMC-US] more on: PropaGannon scandal rocks White House

[Chris Anderson]

-There are really four (or five) stories going on
here. I figured the next step would be to break them
down one by one:

1. The story of how what bascially ammounted to a
right-wing blogger got prime access to White House
press briefings on a Daily basis where he asked
partisan and misleading questions

2. His connection to the Valerie Plame affair.

3. The way he is tied into larger bush media
manipulation's, including Bush's staged "pre-war"
press conference, the fact that Bush paid various
conservative columnists to promote his programs, and
the fact that Bish admin sent out fake tv-news release
to promte social programs.

4.  Gannon's domain name ownership of vaious
gay-escort military sites

5. the larger meta question about blogs, the media,
indymedia, etc.

here are some more links (more mainstream):

Howard Kurtz on the affair
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/kurtzhoward/
and buzzflash on kurtz
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05028.html
editor and publisher runs 3 stories, including an
interview with gannon where he basically denies the
whole thing

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000799182

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000798573

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000798395

interesting, the lefty bloggers are now totally
playing down the whole sex thing: the major wrap up
press release by 
daily kos doesn't even mention it:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000798395

because the fact that they probed the guy's personal
life if being used, in the height of hypocricy, but
the right wing bloggers to attack the lefties

what else to folks think? anyone want to tie this all
together? and the key question is still: what can
indymedia add that everyone else cant?

chris

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