Times gives Gannon hand job
viaEditor & Publisher:
In an interview to be published on Sunday in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, former White House correspondent/ escort Jeff Gannon (real name James Guckert) predicts, “At some point in the future, everyone is going to have a picture on the Internet that they are unhappy about.”
He also reveals that he’d “like to get back into journalism. I’m hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.”
Asked about running a gay escort service, he pulls a Mark McGwire. He does not deny it, but says, “Don’t let that confuse the issue. We have driven so many good people from public service through the politics of personal destruction.” But, cryptrically, he admits that people in the White House press office “probably treated me better than I deserved.”
The one-page interview, by Deborah Solomon, which carries the headline “Blogged Down,” and refers to Gannon as a “shill,” is accompanied by a warm and fuzzy black and white photo of Gannon in a sweater, a far cry from the naked torso familiar to millions in recent weeks.
Can we just change the subtitle of the Times to "All the News George Bush Wants You to Read" and be done with it? And I have proudly called myself a liberal against all enemies, but I want to make damned sure that I'm not whatever they call the Times -- if they are liberal, I must be something else.
In an interview to be published on Sunday in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, former White House correspondent/ escort Jeff Gannon (real name James Guckert) predicts, “At some point in the future, everyone is going to have a picture on the Internet that they are unhappy about.”
He also reveals that he’d “like to get back into journalism. I’m hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.”
Asked about running a gay escort service, he pulls a Mark McGwire. He does not deny it, but says, “Don’t let that confuse the issue. We have driven so many good people from public service through the politics of personal destruction.” But, cryptrically, he admits that people in the White House press office “probably treated me better than I deserved.”
The one-page interview, by Deborah Solomon, which carries the headline “Blogged Down,” and refers to Gannon as a “shill,” is accompanied by a warm and fuzzy black and white photo of Gannon in a sweater, a far cry from the naked torso familiar to millions in recent weeks.
Can we just change the subtitle of the Times to "All the News George Bush Wants You to Read" and be done with it? And I have proudly called myself a liberal against all enemies, but I want to make damned sure that I'm not whatever they call the Times -- if they are liberal, I must be something else.
posted by bluememe at 3/20/2005
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