Media Watchdog FAIR Finds NYT Was 'Duped' in 'Wildly Misleading' Coverage of ACORN 'Pimp'

[BradBlog]

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Media Watchdog FAIR Finds NYT Was 'Duped' in 'Wildly Misleading' Coverage of ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax
Says 'videos were a hoax', 'hard to believe' Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt 'actually believes what he's saying' in defense of repeated misreporting
Group issues action alert calling for retractions, apologies from 'paper of record'...

The New York Times "was duped" and "refuses to own up to mistakes in the paper's coverage" of the now-infamous ACORN "pimp" hoax video tapes published by partisan Rightwing activists James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Breitbart.

That coverage, according to a devastating, no-holds barred, well-documented action alert issued today by the decades-old media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), was "wildly misleading" as a result of the paper having "decide to skip the standard rules of journalism."

The group also slams New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt's often-absurd emailed justifications to The BRAD BLOG for refusing to recommend the paper issue retractions and apologies, as they decry: "It is hard to believe that Hoyt actually believes what he's saying here."

Finally, FAIR's analysis of the reportage, videos, and transcripts comes to the damning conclusion: "The videos were in fact a hoax, and the Times was duped. Its readers deserve to know as much--and ACORN, which suffered serious political damage as a result of the false stories, deserves an apology."...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7740


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[BradBlog]

1. Please sign on to FAIR's campaign...they excoriated the Times...

Finally!

[SoapBox]

2. Like the report is a surprise...

The whole story smelled from the minute it came out.

And it was not only the NYT that grabbed the bait but every other
one of the so-called mainstream media.

Do they repent? Do they correct? Nawww...they just reported
the hype and walked away. Disgraceful.

P.S...Can't ACORN sue the freak'n crap out of Mr. Pimp? There are
law suits filed all the time...I say sue, sue, sue!

[Supersedeas]

3. yet another example of an Election marred by RW Smear Tactics

[defendandprotect]

4. The NY Times was "duped" . . . PLEASE . .. !!!

A few decades back the NY Times and other newspapers MIGHT have actually

investigated what this was all about --

What they did was despicable!!

[Wizard777]

5. Sue the NY Times for Libel.

[Mari333]

6. NYT only good as fishwrap

or at the bottom of a bird cage

cheerleaded the Iraq war from the beginning.

[glitch]

7. Their "dupes" always favor Conservatives. What a coincidence! nt

[upi402]

8. FAIR absolutley rocks!

They validated my observations of the media grovelling to Raygun. Then they monitored and proved that the NAFTA debate was like 75% pro NAFTA.

NY Times is gone :(

[UTUSN]

9. Here's the SOURCE of the "duping": BREITBART. Long, excellent profile of him.

The Wired profile details how BREITBART manipulates the media to get coverage for his wingnut projects, like the scamming of ACORN.

I already knew that Orson BEAN is his father in law, but had a vague impression of BEAN as being an Eastern elitist Lib, from seeing him on What's My Line, with his fellow panelists, although I have NO idea of Kitty CARLYLE's and John DALY's politics. What a surprise that BEAN was a die hard NIXONite, and here, BREITBART's first "mentor."

Good sections on how BREITBART partnered the PUDGE "report", plus all the legal and financial problems BREITBART has had, much more than the ACORN scam.

So the original long profile is buried inside the Gawker link, and alone in the DU thread. And is that a Snuggie BREITBART has on?!1



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7898761

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http://gawker.com/5491446/andrew-breitbart-elitist

Andrew Breitbart, Elitist

"They're an elitist pestilence," Andrew Breitbart says of liberal Hollywood celebrities in this Wired profile of the conservative internet publisher. And then, after saying that, Andrew went to a Manhattan nightclub to drink Cristal with rich people.
Seriously! ....

In addition to decadent Hollywood celebrities, Andrew Breitbart also hates liberal journalists.

"Among those members of the Democrat-media complex: me, an ex-Clinton-Gore campaign staffer contributing to The New York Times. In 2008, I took Breitbart to Wired's 15th anniversary party in Manhattan. He took me to gatherings of pols and pundits at Yamashiro, a restaurant in the Hollywood Hills designed to look like a shogun palace."

Here's a picture Andrew once took of billionaire financier George Soros. Unlike Dennis, Soros is a bad elitist billionaire, because he funds liberals things. Andrew took this picture (and sent it to Nick Denton) at Jean Georges, the fantastically elite Manhattan restaurant. Where Andrew was also dining, at the time.

He is basically a clown, so we should probably stop giving him so much attention.




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[EFerrari]

12. We need a Fake Media forum, Faux News.

It would drive them crazy. :)

[Go2Peace]

10. NYT knew EXACTLY what they were doing. I mean come on, I knew, how could they not.

It was intentional and sensational. It was more interesting to promote a falsehood then reporting the truth even though they certainly knew it.

[EFerrari]

11. Geeze, I'm still mad at the PE before THIS ONE for lying his @ss off about Ohio.

Good follow through, Brad.