This promises to be better than any April Fool's Day joke.

Someone is sponsoring a panel discussion April 8 at the National Press Club in D.C. on the difference, or whether there is a difference, between bloggers and journalists.

There is a notice on the National Press Club Web site about it under the headline: Blogger? Journalist?

Now get this. On the panel, there will be James Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon), along with Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette and, the only real journalist and not exactly a big name, Congress Daily's John Stanton.

They didn't ask me, so I've reserved a ticket, since I actually qualified for a daily press pass to cover Congress at the U.S. Capitol through the Senate Press Gallery.

In case you missed the story, Gannon got daily press passes to the White House even though he couldn't get a Congressional pass. Here's the story I did about it for the Locust Fork Journal March 6 under the headline:

Cleaning the Objective Microscope Lens

And here's a headline links page dedicated to stories about Gannongate.

John Aravosis of America blog says the event is not actually being sponsored by the National Press Club.

I've been doing a bit of research on this story myself and will have a few juicy tidbits to reveal by the date of the panel, if it comes off, including more of Gannon's past - and his REAL name.

GW