Crossposted, but I believe worthy of some discussion here.
"Gannongate" is iconic of the effects of favoritism on the White House Press Corps and the media in general. White House access is notoriously difficult to get and as such is treasured by the media community. As a result, journalists will compromise their principles (or sometimes, as with Gannon, their principles are likely already compromised) in order to gain and keep this access. So while anybody with actual journalistic integrity and the cohones to ask hard questions will have their access denied on any technicality the White House can cook up, those who ask softball questions like Gannon (who also ironically mused that Kerry would be the first gay president due to his approval by the gay community - an assertion so false and hypocritical that I'll just let it speak for itself) can get away with all sorts of questionable behavior (false name, false credentials, working for an organization that isn't really a media source, and amusingly though arguably irrelevantly is a purveyor of gay military-themed pornography) and still get admitted to the White House.
That's what matters here: not the gay porn, not the fact that the guy seems like a sleaze, but the fact that White House favoritism is corrupting the media. And to reiterate, I find the gay porn amusing given both Gannon's gay criticism of Kerry and Bush's general homosexual platform, but I recognize that it is irrelevant to the issue at hand. Gannon is welcome to do whatever he wishes with his private life: what bothers me is the false credentials and the softball questions.