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In reply to the discussion: Was Jeff Gannon a journalist? [View all]Uncle Joe
(59,676 posts)40. No less so than Chuck Todd but then again Todd gets paid so I guess that makes all the difference?
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I sense this is a loaded question, and you're going to ask the No voters "well then, what about..."
Electric Monk
Sep 2013
#4
He was a tool, but he most assuredly had White House press credentials.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2013
#9
tou·ché - . (in fencing) used as an acknowledgment of a hit by one's opponent.
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#12
Well, obviously he can't be a journalist if we don't approve of him politically. DUH!
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2013
#19
A press pass is not a device for consitutional blessing. It's for WH security.
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2013
#31
What would the sheild law do to change Gannon's status, declared by the WH as it was?
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#20
No less so than Chuck Todd but then again Todd gets paid so I guess that makes all the difference?
Uncle Joe
Sep 2013
#40
Exactly. That is why allowing government to define journalist is bullshit.
Luminous Animal
Sep 2013
#23
Yep, I was right. Nailed it with post #4, above. Probably thought you were so cute, didn't you? nt
Electric Monk
Sep 2013
#51
My first and primary question was 'what's this got to do with the sheild law' and you did your
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#128
No. The fact that he was paid to portray one doesn't make him any more of a journalist
Tanuki
Sep 2013
#21
He was a sleepover@White House shaved hardbody GOP blogger with terrible taste in men
leveymg
Sep 2013
#27
You should take a shower and get a blood test if you got close enough to know that about Jimmy Jeff
leveymg
Sep 2013
#39
At times he appeared to be a propagandist, but he worked in the field of journalism
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2013
#33
We should keep the name and the story alive. Jeff Gannon - GOP's favorite male prostitute.
JEFF9K
Sep 2013
#41
I think Spandan is a shitty blogger who should be rejected by all sane people
Bjorn Against
Sep 2013
#52
I know what it is. Are you saying that a person pushing propaganda is a journalist? n/t
ProSense
Sep 2013
#70
Actually, I'd say that both you and Gannon would be more accurately described as propagandists
Electric Monk
Sep 2013
#71
If they're analyzing or reporting on current events or things in the public interest, yes.
NuclearDem
Sep 2013
#59
That would be shitty tabloid journalism, but SCOTUS has repeatedly defended even that
NuclearDem
Sep 2013
#65
He covered the White House, got press credentials, was published, and had a readership.
WilliamPitt
Sep 2013
#50
When he wasn't pimping himself out for sexual service he wrote for a right wing rag
notadmblnd
Sep 2013
#56
"you can say anything, put it in writing, but it doesn't mean you're a journalist or the press."
Chan790
Sep 2013
#120
Is John Stewart? Stephen Colbert? Glen Greenwald? Matt Taibbi? Greg Palast?
SomethingFishy
Sep 2013
#98
when CNN was propagandizing to push the invasion of Iraq or the impeachment of Clinton, were they
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#100
I find the tendency toward authoritarianism by the majority of poll respondents here very disturbing
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#103
for all practical purposes it does - it define who is protected under shield laws and who is not
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#110
How did the 1st Amendment ever survive 224 years without defining journalist (or press)?
Faryn Balyncd
Sep 2013
#108
What's the point here? JG could have been a journo AND a male prostitute for a WH resident.
WinkyDink
Sep 2013
#148