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Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?

July 24th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: ACORN · Cable Television · Elections · Internet · Journalism · Journalism Ethics · Politics · Television News

Spitting, racial and gay slurs? Just isolated instances of emotions running high

March 21st, 2010 · No Comments

On the Saturday, March 20, the weekend of the historic health care vote in Congress, Tea Party protesters outside of the Capitol apparently spit on and hurled racial and gay slurs at Democratic lawmakers.  Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Amy Kremer, coordinator of the Tea Party Express, both denounced the incidents, and characterized [...]

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Tags: ACORN · Cable Television · Elections · Journalism Ethics · Politics

Have the Media ‘Falsely Framed’ ACORN?

November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Christopher R. Martin and Peter Dreier
A pimp and a prostitute walk into an office. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it wasn’t for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Until recently, ACORN, the largest community organizing group in the country, was well known primarily among liberal activists and the [...]

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ACORN Study co-author Peter Dreier on Rachel Maddow Show, 9-29-2009

October 5th, 2009 · No Comments

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