Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Back to the Gannon story
This is incredibly weird, but just too interesting not to pass on: The Des Moines Register has a story about a billowing Internet rumor that Jeff Gannon/J Guckert is really Johnny Gosch, an Iowa boy who was kidnapped at age 12 in 1982, said to have been by a pedophile ring. Gannon, The White House correspondent for Talon News, was later revealed by bloggers to have had a male escort/pornography background and quit his job. He's lately caused a stir by being invited to a National Press Club event. Johnny Gosch seems to resemble Gannon, but would be several years younger. That apparently hasn't stopped dozens of bloggers from noting the coincidences. posted by liz at 11:11 AM
Comments:
So the article says that some random person posted publicly a statement that they look similar. Immediately bloggers disproved they were the same person.
No major blog even picked up on the story. At least none that I know of, and I think I know them all (DU is not a blog).
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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