Via fivethirtyeight.com, I've learned that the National Press Club has a blog. Good for them. Unfortunately, I also learned that one of their bloggers is Jeff Gannon. Remember him? The former male escort planted in the White House Press Corps to pitch softball questions to the administration when they were riding high in 2005? Apparently, the NPC believes so strongly in the journalistic norm of balance that they decided to hire a journalist whose entire career in the field is antithetical to those other pesky journalistic norm of integrity and truth-telling. Oops. From Gannon's bio:
Jeff Gannon is a member of the National Press Club, currently serving on the New Media and Newsmaker committees. He is also a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Online News Association.Jeff Gannon was the first exclusively online reporter to ever cover the White House on a daily basis. His commentary and analysis website is “Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media”.
I assume the cornerstones of this "New Media" are fabrication, dishonesty and partisan deference, right? Glad we cleared that up.
--Mori Dinauer
