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‘The Times Botched the Story,’ Author Says About ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax on ‘Democracy Now!’

President of National Housing Institute decries: 'Act of defunding ACORN by Congress is a national disgrace'...

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'...

Rightwing ‘Hot Air’ Blogger Ed Morrissey Misreports ‘Indictments Against ACORN’

The GOP war against democracy continues to continue apace...

How to ‘Edit Videotape to Meet Your Agenda’

A quick lesson for those, like the New York Times, that grossly misreported the ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax...

ACORN Strikes Back! ‘Accountability’ Campaign Demands Media Corrections for ‘Pimp’ Hoax Stories

Group asks '100,000 supporters' for 'Letters to Editor'

Cites BRAD BLOG coverage of NYTimes Editors' outrageous justifications for refusing to retract repeated misreporting...

NY D.A. Clears Brooklyn ACORN: ‘No Criminality’

NYDailyNews law enforcement source: 'They edited the tape to meet their agenda'

[UPDATED] Rupert Murdoch's NYPost: DA source says tapes 'heavily edited'...

VIDEO: ‘Andy Breitbart Explains It All For You’ – An Exclusive Interview, Disturbing Admissions, and Manic Responses to the ACORN Video ‘Pimp’ Hoax

On-the-record answers at CPAC, that the corporate media couldn't be bothered to get themselves before misreporting the story

'It's like Borat ... Why would it be misleading?'...

More Devastating Response to NYT’s Outrageous Hypocrisy in Refusing to Correct Inaccurate ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Coverage

Media Matters notes Exec Editor Bill Keller's response to errors in 2005: 'It's amazing that some at this paper believe fact-checking is someone else's responsibility'...

Exclusive: NYTimes Public Editor Declines to Recommend Retraction for Multiple Erroneous Reports on False ACORN ‘Pimp’ Story

Despite repeated confirmation that the 'paper of record' was wrong, Clark Hoyt declines to recommend retractions

Describes O'Keefe as 'journalistically unethical,' but recommends only that editors avoid 'dressed as pimp' language in future coverage...

Hannah Giles Confirms (Again, This Time on Video) the O’Keefe-Breitbart ACORN ‘Pimp’ Lie

Confuses 'minstrel show' with 'menstrual cycle'

Plus Digby, and others, on why all of this matters...

Exclusive: New York Times Editor ‘Stands Behind’ Contested ‘Pimp’ Reporting on James O’Keefe

Times Sr. Editor for Standards cites Fox News, accused felon as sources for paper's ACORN report; refuses to back up additional claims made in contradiction of former state Attorney General

'No comment,' assertions of privacy, bizarre obfuscation, backtracking offered when asked by The BRAD BLOG to share alleged evidence...

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