{"id":7728,"date":"2010-03-04T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2010-03-05T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:39:56","slug":"acorn-strikes-back-accountability-campaign-demands-media-corrections-for-pimp-hoax-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7728","title":{"rendered":"ACORN Strikes Back! ‘Accountability’ Campaign Demands Media Corrections for ‘Pimp’ Hoax Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Following on our weeks-long coverage here at The BRAD BLOG<\/a>, and at other sites who’ve similarly jumped in demanding accountability from the New York Times<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n

An email blast<\/a> 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<\/b><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The community group’s heavily-footnoted email blast, signed by “CEO and Chief Organizer” Bertha Lewis, quotes several articles from The BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> detailed coverage, including NYTimes<\/i> Public Editor Clark Hoyt’s outrageous emailed justifications<\/a> for refusing to recommend the paper correct its multiple misreports.<\/p>\n

“Can you tell Clark Hoyt, The New York Times’ Public Editor, that The Times needs to retract its past ACORN stories and report the truth about the anti-ACORN sting operation from now on?<\/strong><\/a>” the email campaign asks [emphasis in original<\/em>] before chiding Hoyt for refusal to “see that a correction is in order, because that would require conclusive evidence that The Times was wrong, which I haven’t seen.”<\/p>\n

The BRAD BLOG<\/a>, however, has indeed shown “conclusive evidence” to Hoyt that the paper was wrong, and even Hannah Giles<\/a> (who played the fake prostitute) and even Andrew Breitbart<\/a> (who published the videos to help launch his new BigGovernment.com website) have both now admitted that the reports of James O’Keefe dressing as a “pimp” in the offices of ACORN were flat out wrong.<\/p>\n

Whelan says the group is “asking people to contact either the New York Times OR their local paper and ask for a correction to the erroneous reporting regarding O’Keefe and his video scams.”<\/p>\n

“Bradblog and a handful of online writers have been way ahead in looking at the facts on this story,” Whelan wrote, “just as you were in exposing the great voter fraud fraud in 2006.” (Our indexed coverage of that<\/i> particular Rightwing fraud campaign is here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

More from Whelan’s email to The BRAD BLOG<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We are asking people to contact papers all around the country because nearly everyone has reported on this story erroneously at some point-O’Keefe’s purpose after all, was to deceive and confuse. The New York Times has a special responsibility to correct the facts though-both as the paper of record and because they reported based on a combination of wild misconceptions (as they admitted to you) and pressure from the radical right.<\/div>\n

The ACORN email blast to supporters<\/a> also notes that the New York Daily News<\/i> had the decency to report<\/a> 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”<\/a> after a five-month investigation of Brooklyn ACORN tapes. <\/p>\n

Moreover, even Rupert Murdoch’s<\/i> New York Post<\/i> reported on the finding<\/a>, 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.”<\/p>\n

And yet, the New York Times<\/i>, the “paper of record,” continues to misreport the story, even in the wake of the D.A.’s finding, as we detailed last night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please read ACORN’s full letter, and sign onto their accountability campaign right here…<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

And please spread the word by DIGGing, REDDITing, RE-TWEETing, etc!<\/p>\n

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Following on our weeks-long coverage here at The BRAD BLOG, and at other sites who’ve similarly jumped in 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 […]<\/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":[192,393,448,169,449,188,255,148],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-andrew-breitbart","category-dirty-tricks","category-james-okeefe","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-new-york-post","category-new-york-times","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728","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=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}