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Andrew Breitbart has a job to do and he does it well. Breitbart’s job is to lie and distort the truth in order to advance a right-wing agenda, embarrass liberals, and undermine the Obama administration.
Breitbart is not a journalist, researcher, or pundit. He is a propagandist.

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Harold Meyerson, “For ACORN, Truth Lost Amid the Din,” Washington Post, September 23, 2009.
University of Northern Iowa, “Profs: Why ACORN was in the news in ‘07-’08, and what the media got wrong,” Romenesko, September 23, 2009.
Alicia Shepard, “The ACORN Videos: Did NPR Ignore Them?” NPR, September 23, 2009.
Michael Calderone, “Study: Media’s been wrong on ACORN,” [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A study by Christopher R. Martin, Ph.D. and Peter Dreier, Ph.D.
Using the controversy over ACORN as a case study, this report illustrates the way the media help set the agenda for public debate, and frame the way that debate is shaped. It describes how “opinion entrepreneurs” (primarily business and conservative groups and individuals) [...]

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