The NY Times has actually mentioned the ACORN video scandals, but in a way that demonstrates the lack of jounralistic integrity that seems rampant there. Take for example this article from September 14, announcing that the Sentate had voted to cut off funds. The article doesn’t mention the scandal until halfway through, when it finally gives up this detailed explanation:
More recently, Acorn employees in Washington, Baltimore and Brooklyn were caught on tape giving tax pointers and other advice to conservatives posing as a pimps and prostitutes.
A more recent article from September 15 covers the scandal specifically. But rather than deal with the problems with ACORN, the article is about how this is the fault of Conservatives. Instead of being about ACORN, it’s about ACORN’s critics. This downplays the extreme scumbaggery of those at ACORN who nanchalantly describe how to game the tax system while setting up girls to be systematically raped.
There was one good part in the NY Times article:
Mike Gonzalez, vice president for communications at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the episodes simply reflected a Web-based democratization of investigative reporting, made necessary in part by the failures of the mainstream news media. “It should have been ‘60 Minutes’ doing this stuff – not two people whose combined ages are 45,” Mr. Gonzalez said.
No, it wasn’t “60 Minutes” doign that reporting. And neither was it the New York Times. They can’t even bring themselves to explain in any coherent detail just what they’d been scooped on.
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Journalism is dead. Has been for at least 2 decades now.