It’s not exactly the same kind of trophy that conservative bloggers bagged when they skewered some reports by Dan Rather and CBS News, but liberal bloggers in the U.S. have forced the resignation of a conservative online reporter.
Washington Post media reporter/critic Howard Kurtz writes:
Jeff Gannon, who had been writing for the Web sites Talon News and GOPUSA, is actually James Dale Guckert, 47, and has been linked to online domain addresses with sexually provocative names.
He has been under scrutiny since asking Bush how he could work with Senate Democratic leaders “who seem to have divorced themselves from reality.” The information about Gannon was posted on the liberal sites Daily Kos, Atrios and World o' Crap. … [Read the full story – registration required]
Talon News put up a brief statement on this.