It’s bad enough that the White House has been paying “journalists” to promote its conservative agendas under the guise of objective reporting, but that’s not all. Boston.com reports that
the Bush administration has provided White House media credentials to a man who has virtually no journalistic background, asks softball questions to the president and his spokesman in the midst of contentious news conferences, and routinely reprints long passages verbatim from official press releases as original news articles on his website.
Jeff Gannon, a “correspondent” for “TalonNews.com,” is a fraudulent shill, and I can’t believe that no one has called the administration on this. The bad thing is, I’ve gotten so used to such bullshit that this didn’t surprise me one bit…
