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Have the Media ‘Falsely Framed’ ACORN?

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Links to News Reports on ACORN Study

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments

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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ACORN Study co-author Dreier on Rachel Maddow Show, 9-24-2009

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments

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