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| This is one of two photos sources provided to the Blade of a man who appears to
be James Guckert, who worked in the White House press corps as
‘Jeff Gannon.’ The sources claim Guckert attended a sex party for
gay men in 1998. In the other photo, which the Blade is not publishing, the man
who appears to be Guckert is embracing another man while exposing his penis. |
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By: JOE CREA COMMENTS
 
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News employees] journalists
since they are advocates,” Foser said. “His questions, sure, were over the top
but some of the things that were written … they were lengthy pieces from the
White House briefings, not independent reports. Yes, Fox News or the Washington
Times, they are conservative but they are legitimate news organizations.”
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is a screen capture of the trong>AmericaBlog story that claimed
Jeff Guckert, also known as Jeff Gannon, worked as a male prostitute before
going to work as a reporter for Talon News. AmericaBlog was started by D.C.
gay activist John Aravosis. |
Guckert resigned from Talon News on Feb. 8. Since then, bloggers and media watchdog
groups have dug deeper into his personal life. First came reports that Guckert
had ties to a number of gay sex sites. The same person who had registered his
personal Web site also registered others, including HotMilitaryStud.com,
MilitaryEscorts.com
and MilitaryEscortsM4M.com.
Late last week, Guckert was asked about those sites in an interview on CNN’s
“Wolf Blitzer Reports” and said, “Well, several years ago, before I came to
Washington, I had registered various domain names for a private client. I was
doing Web site development. Those sites were never hosted. There’s — nothing
ever went up on them. And the client went on to do something else.”
Guckert first discussed his sudden departure from Talon News in that CNN interview.
He resigned with the hope that the harassment of his family would cease, he
said. When pressed by Blitzer to be more specific about his family, Guckert
replied “Well, I mean — I mean my — when my mother and my brother and his wife
received telephone calls that — you know, that contained threats and all kinds
of terrible things being said about me, it’s very disturbing. And that’s way
over the line. And I needed to put that to an end.”
Timothy Karr, executive director of MediaChannel.org and Media for Democracy,
said he is concerned that the White House is using journalists in a way to create
friendly media reports.
“Journalists used to be ranked very high in terms of their ethical standing
in public polls. This scandal is dangerous because journalism does serve an
essential role in Democracy. Talon News is clearly an organization intent on
spreading conservative ideas and they do it in a sloppy fashion,” Karr said.
“The questions Gannon was asking were not about trying to get the truth but
more about grandstanding and presenting a very partisan point of view.”
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