Believe it or not, our buddy JD Guckert will be appearing as some kind of "Expert" on a panel put together by the National Press Club in Washington DC to discuss whether bloggers are journalists.
http://press.org/
Originally, the entire panel consisted of three people, Guckert, Ann Marie Cox, and some guy from "Congress Daily" who smeared John Aravosis and the efforts of everyone else who investigated the Gannon affair.
Within the last hour, however, they've added two more "panelists" --- one a "real" working journalists (USA Today's Jim Drinkard) and the other the first blogger to get White House press credentials (Garrett Graff of Fishbowl).
The National Press Club has already lied about the Panel in response to an article in Editor and Publisher raising questions about including Guckert. Here is the E&P piece...
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000856306
and here is the lie from the National Press Club, in which VP Jonathan Salant claims that this is actually designed as an opportunity for the press to interview a newsmaker...
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=9143
There is a grassroots campaign to get Aravosis on the panel so that he can provide some reality to the procedings, and rebut Guckerts inevitable lies and misrepresentations ---
http://agonist.org/story/2005/3/28/135915/053
but despite that effort, Aravosis was not included in the new list of forum participants.
(UPDATE) in the last half hour, Matthew Yglesias was added to the panel....but still no Aravosis!
Personally, I think that Aravosis should organize (possibly through E&P or Media Matters) a 'counter forum', and insist that CSPAN provide that forum with coverage....