Gannon Story? What Gannon Story?One of the sillier memes running around the lefty blogs is that somehow the Jeff Gannon saga is getting swept under the rug by the mainstream media. Salon, which is hardly mainstream (more like gasping for air at the bottom of the stream), picks up this notion and
runs with it.
Yet most mainstream reporters have opted not to cover the story. Two of the television networks, as well as scores of major metropolitan newspapers around the country, have completely ignored it.Yet Yahoo News shows
405 articles mentioning "Jeff Gannon" in their news section. Google
shows 807 but that includes
some "news" sources that make Talon News look like a professional operation.
NBC News has covered it. The
New York Times has covered it. The
Washington Post has covered it (with twice as many stories as
Eason Jordan). Instapundit, who has been accused of ignoring this humongous story has had
ten posts on it.
If this story's being ignored by the media, how would these folks describe the coverage of "Christmas in Cambodia"?
Andrew Sullivan has pretty much
the same take as I've had on this story all along:
The substantive case against Gannon is trivial; the irrelevant case against him (the one that's fueled this story) is that he's gay, has allegedly been (or still may be) a prostitute, and may not agree with everything the gay left believes (although I agree with David Corn that the evidence that Gannon has written anything even remotely "anti-gay" is laughable). The real scandal is the blatant use of homophobic rhetoric by the self-appointed Savonarolas of homo-left-wingery. It's an Animal Farm moment: the difference between a fanatic on the gay left and a fanatic on the religious right is harder and harder to discern.
