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...demanding accountability from the New York Times, ACORN itself is now launching a "Letter to the Editor" campaign to "Demand Accountability" from the paper for their repeated misreporting of the James O'Keefe/Andrew Breitbart ACORN "pimp" hoax. An email blast is being sent to "over 100,000 ACORN supporters" today, according to spokesman Kevin Whelan, calling on them to "send an email to the Times' Public Editor and tell him to retract the Times' erroneous reporting about O'Keefe and ACORN.
ACORN Strikes Back! 'Accountability' Campaign Demands Media Corrections for 'Pimp' Hoax Stories
Seeded on Fri Mar 5, 2010 4:53 PM EST
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...the New York Daily News had the decency to report on a law enforcement source who noted Monday that "they edited the tape to meet their agenda," following the conclusion of the Brooklyn D.A.'s finding of "no criminality" after a five-month investigation of Brooklyn ACORN tapes.
Moreover, even Rupert Murdoch's New York Post reported on the finding, noting the D.A. described the video as a "'heavily edited' splice job" where "many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister."
And yet, the New York Times, the "paper of record," continues to misreport the story, even in the wake of the D.A.'s finding, as we detailed last night.
But, wait, I thought the New York Times was part of the liberal MSM conspiracy?
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#1 - Fri Mar 5, 2010 4:55 PM ESTGood for them. The Times needs to account for their actions just as they state others should.
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#2 - Fri Mar 5, 2010 6:41 PM ESTI'm still waiting for the retraction from Fox News since James O'Keefe is one of their feature contributors.
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#3 - Fri Mar 5, 2010 7:01 PM ESTHetep and Respect Carloz, tnx for the story and the link. I sent the Email to the NYT. Clipped and RT'ed
Are these criminals going to jail? Is this a violation of the voting rights act? What about Slander.
Where are the Republicans that were caught caging millions of African Americans and Latino Americans, are they in jail?
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#4 - Fri Mar 5, 2010 7:44 PM ESTAre these criminals going to jail? Is this a violation of the voting rights act? What about Slander.
Of course not -- all they did was essentially libel, slander and commit fraud.
Thanks for the link, Aunk -- I had never heard of that practice. I wasn't on Newsvine back in '07, so probably missed a lot of info back then
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The media has really botched the coverage of ACORN...there's even been a study on it...
The mainstream news media failed to fact‐check persistent allegations of “voter
fraud” despite the existence of easily available countervailing evidence. The media
also failed to distinguish allegations of voter registration problems from allegations of
actual voting irregularities. They also failed to distinguish between allegations of
wrongdoing and actual wrongdoing. For example:-- 82.8% of the stories about ACORN’s alleged involvement in voter fraud failed to
mention that actual voter fraud is very rare (only 17.2% did mention it)-- 80.3% of the stories about ACORN’s alleged involvement in voter fraud failed to
mention that ACORN was reporting registration irregularities to authorities, as
required to do by law-- 85.1% of the stories about ACORN’s alleged involvement in voter fraud failed to note that ACORN was acting to stop incidents of registration problems by its(mostly temporary) employees when it became aware of these problems
-- 95.8% of the stories about ACORN’s alleged involvement in voter fraud failed to
provide deeper context, especially efforts by Republican Party officials to use
allegations of “voter fraud” to dampen voting by low‐income and minority
Americans, including the firing of U.S. Attorneys who refused to cooperate with
the politicization of voter fraud accusations...
Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong
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