Daily Show Covers Gannon and Jordan Blogging News
Posted on February 16, 2005
Even the Daily Show With John Stewart gave kudos to bloggers for blog posts that led to the firing of one reporter and one fake reporter. The two journalism stories about Eason Jordan and Jeff Gannon began in blogs and spread quickly around the Internet. Eason Jordan was the CNN chief news executive who was fired after his comments that U.S. troops were targeting the media were blogged on ForumBlog.org.
Jeff Gannon was a fake reporter working under a fake name who somehow managed to get a regular day pass into White House press conferences where he would lob softball questions at President George W. Bush. Gannon worked for an online news service called Talon News, which Media Matters said "appears to be more of a Republican political advocacy group than a media outlet." Bloggers have also uncovered that Gannon offered himself online as a male escort on various websites.
Read our previous blog post for more information about Gannon. On the Daily Show, John Stewart showed one of the nude photographs of Gannon found on a website offering military escort services. He also discussed with Stephen Colbert how bloggers were uncovering stories that the mainstream media was not. Colbert also revealed that his real name is Ted Hitler.
