July 21, 2010

Irresponsibility

Given the role Andrew Breitbart and his Big Government website had in destroying ACORN by using fraudulent videos created by the site's employees James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, it seems pretty obvious that the media was way too credulous when it jumped on the Sherrod story and ran with it.

If I were a member of the mainstream media and had read the California Attorney General's report on the results of his investigation of the ACORN affair, I'd sure be skeptical that any video clips Breitbart and his staff released were whole and complete. From Page 23 of the report:

O’Keefe stated he was out to make a point and to damage ACORN and therefore did not act as a journalist objectively reporting a story. The video releases were heavily edited to feature only the worst or most inappropriate statements of the various ACORN employees and to omit some of the most salient statements by O’Keefe and Giles.
If I knew that previous videos from that source were "heavily edited to feature only the worst or most inappropriate statements" I might be a little hesitant to run new video clips without checking them thoroughly.

I guess that's why I'm a blogger and not a highly-paid producer or anchor for a cable network.

Posted by Linkmeister at July 21, 2010 11:30 AM | TrackBack
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