GANNONGATE -- MAINSTREAM MEDIA BLACKOUT: It's a story flush with
intrigue -- CIA secrets, White House malfeasance, hidden identities,
even male prostitution. Yet, as Salon.com's Eric Boehlert describes, the
serious questions surrounding White House "reporter" Jeff Gannon
(http://www.americanprogressaction.or...P7H&b=387763#2)
have received only scant coverage in the mainstream media; two of the
broadcast television networks, "as well as scores of major metropolitan
newspapers around the country, have completely ignored it
(http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/0...age/index.html) ."
And evidence of a double standard is plentiful. Just two months ago,
"virtually every major news outlet" covered a similar (yet far less
egregious) story involving Edward Lee Pitts, the Tennessee reporter "who
helped a National Guardsman craft a tough question posed to Secretary
Rumsfeld regarding the lack of body armor for U.S. soldiers fighting in
Iraq."