{"id":5983,"date":"2008-05-13T14:29:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2008-05-14T03:12:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T10:12:36","slug":"nytimes-cleanses-record-removes-reference-to-gop-vote-suppressor-thor-hearnes-american-center-for-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5983","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes Cleanses Thor Hearne’s Record, Scrubs Front-Page Reference to the GOP Vote-Suppressor’s ‘American Center for Voting Rights’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good news:<\/strong> The complaints about references made to GOP vote-suppressor Thor Hearne’s now-defunct front group, American Center for Voting Rights<\/a> (ACVR), have resulted in the New York Times<\/i> dropping the reference to ACVR from yesterday’s front-page article, to which we referred yesterday<\/a>, with no small amount of disgust.<\/p>\n

The bad news:<\/strong> The Times<\/i> didn’t bother to note their error<\/em> (at least not in this online version<\/a> of the story) as one would expect, as per transparent, journalistic ethics. More disturbingly, nor did they bother to note Hearne’s continuing paid-partisan position as the GOP’s top “voter fraud” scammer-in-chief, pushing for disenfranchising Photo ID laws around the country, his role in writing the very laws he’s quoted discussing, his discredited and debunked ACVR group or their participation revealed at the heart of the U.S. Attorney Purge which pushed out Republican attorneys for not pursuing non-existent cases of “voter fraud” with enough fervor, or even his post as the national general counsel for Bush\/Cheney ’04 Inc. who mislead Congressional members during hearings on these matters in 2005.<\/p>\n

The story now refers to him only as “a lawyer from Missouri who has been a strong advocate for voter ID laws.” Almost sounds like Honest Abe Lincoln, don’t it?<\/p>\n

In other words, the infamous GOP snake-oil salesman Hearne has been cleansed of his baggage by the New York Times<\/em> themselves. So, apparently, he remains in good stead as a source when it comes to the Times<\/i>, NPR, etc. Credibility, apparently, is not a necessary quality for sources quoted by such organizations. Nor, apparently, is transparency.<\/p>\n

What’s next for the Times<\/em>? Quoting Ahmed Chalabi as an unimpeachable source claiming Sadam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction? Oh, wait, never mind…<\/p>\n

…CONTACTS…<\/strong>
\nNYTimes<\/em> Public Editor, Clark Hoyt: public@nytimes.com<\/a>
\nNYTimes<\/em> Letters to the Editor: letters@nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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The good news: The complaints about references made to GOP vote-suppressor Thor Hearne’s now-defunct front group, American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR), have resulted in the New York Times dropping the reference to ACVR from yesterday’s front-page article, to which we referred yesterday, with no small amount of disgust. The bad news: The Times didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,91,188,148,172],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acvr","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-new-york-times","category-photo-id-laws","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}