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Seriously, 600 people showed up at the first-ever National Tea Party Convention at the Opryland complete in Nashville and this makes page A1 of the New York Times?  Four times as many paying people (2,435) attended my journalism educators convention in Boston last year, and I can tell you we didn’t get any mention in [...]

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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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