Reminder: C-SPAN 2 at 9:30 Eastern, 8:30 Central

[AnnInLa]

Aravosis plans to attend, and hopefully ask the hard questions. The following was on his blog this morning:

www.AmericaBlog.org


"FURTHER UPDATE: The GannonGuckert Press Club event will be LIVE on C-Span2 Friday at around 9:30AM Eastern. Ironically, they follow with a panel on broadcast indecency!

UPDDATE: Since they're requiring bloggers to bring a copy of their blog to prove we're for real, I'm bringing a copy of my story about Jeff with all the photos :-)

After giving it a lot of thought, it seemed a good idea for me to attend in the audience to keep everybody honest. This way, we'll have a perfect record of everything GannonGuckert says, we'll be able to monitor the "tough questions" the mainstream media is promising to ask, and I'll hopefully get to ask some tough questions of my own.

I'm particularly interested in seeing to what degree the panel does or doesn't turn into a GannonGuckert-fest. Meaning, will it become a debate as to whether HE'S a journalist, or more generally, what are or should be (or not) the qualifications for someone being called a journalist.

As an aside, I had breakfast this morning with Garrett Graff, the "first blogger in the White House" (Garrett will be on the panel). We were talking about the panel, and it occurred to us that the key question isn't really who is a journalist. It's, rather, who is a good journalist, an ethical journalist, a journalist who upholds the ideals of what journalism is supposed to be about (and what are those supposed ideals?)."

www.AmericaBlog.org

[seemslikeadream]

1. Thanks AnnInLa

I'll be watching

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Thank you for the reminder!

:hi:

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3. National Press Club is doing a re-run from Thursday, right now.

Roger Ailes Chairman & CEO of Fox news is being interviewed by Marvin Kalb and defending his whore network

[Chomskyite]

4. Ailes

He's about as odious a person as I've ever seen. The way he insulted that young man in glasses. The way he soaked up that bimbo's flirtations. This guy runs the most powerful news service on the planet and he's like Mr Creosote from Monty Python's the Meaning of Life!

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8. ....and he believes he's loved by all.

The way he covered up Bill O'Rielly's sex scandal, in an offensively self-satisfied manner

[Chomskyite]

5. Is Rick Dunham deadwood or what?

Talk about a guy who'd send me running from the room. What is going on on CSPAN2 today?

[jim3775]

6. Pretty good mix? There were two bloggers! eom

[Edgewater_Joe]

7. Think They're Worried About Actual NEWS Being Made There?

All those rules to be nice and have lots of decorum ... what are they more worried about: the nudies of GanGuckgonnert being shown or getting chewed out for being such biased tools?

I'm actually looking forward to this now. Hope Aravosis or Kos is there to light a bunsen burner under their butts in the Q and A.

[Edgewater_Joe]

9. Yglesias: "When am I gonna become a 'ball' player?"

And now he's going after GanGuckgonnert!

LOVE it!!!

[seemslikeadream]

10. This bald talk is really funny!

[grumpy old fart]

11. so far, Gannon/Guckert doing ok for himself...IMHO

[Chomskyite]

12. Yglesias rocks

When Gannon got all redfaced over Media Matters and started slamming papers down and yelling about CBS's "fabricated" memos on Bush's National Guard record, he cried out, "Was anybody held accountable for that?"

Yglesias: "Yes! They lost their jobs!"

[Chomskyite]

13. It ended with hollered questions to Gannon

Had you ever spoken to Scott McClellan? Did you sleep with Scott McClellan? Did you have sex with anybody on the White House staff? Gannon ignored it, seemingly chatting with wonkette who was awfully eager to exchange cards with everybody. Matt Yglesias sort of stood aside bemused. Everybody kept chattering.

But that did stop . . . for one dramatic half-minute.

Finally whoever was shouting the questions stormed out bellowing "He's an animal!" turning and shouting to the rest of the audience, "You let him USE you! He filibustered you just like Ken Mehlman and the rest of them." He passed by the camera with a disgusted look on his face.

Then the chatter resumed.