Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Following up
..on the recent post about a dubious 'White House correspondent', some reaction: MediaChannel's director, MediaCitizen, reports Jeff Gannon has quit his position as correspondent for Talon News. Gannon's personal Website has also been shut down; he says he's returning to private life. From MediaCitizen's Timothy Karr:
This is not a story about sexual preference but about the viability of our Fourth Estate in the face of increasing efforts to disguise propaganda as straight news. By acting as a White House shill...Gannon rightly came under harsh scrutiny.
On the Deep Throat story, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a summary of the story so far with some fun background tidbits, including a mention of how Carl Bernstein was once interviewed by one of the possible 'Throat' candidates, Pat Buchanan (about Bernstein's book on the Pope). An odd image, indeed. posted by liz at 9:46 AM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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