Misleading Corporate "News" Does Real Damage to the Community Once Again

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http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/04/07/4126070-context-lies-and-videotapes-the-real-acorn-story
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Context, lies and videotapes: The real Acorn story

News Type: Event — Wed Apr 7, 2010 6:54 AM EDT
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Last week, California Attorney General Jerry Brown released the results of his investigation into the Acorn sting videos by right-wing activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. The two posted videos that supposedly showed O'Keefe and Giles getting advice from Acorn workers in various state offices on running a prostitution ring involving girls who'd been snuck across the Mexican border. The uproar led Congress to cut off support for Acorn, a community organizing group that worked in poor communities, and crippled Acorn's funding operation. On April 1, Acorn shut down its field offices.
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The unedited video tapes released by the California Attorney General's office last week clear ACORN employees in California of any criminal wrongdoing.
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But the huge tide of negative publicity that followed these videotapes and the coverage they got on Fox? Was bull pucky. It was a dishonest political stunt that bears no resemblance to journalism and no resemblance to the facts. But it worked. This big organization serving poor people and registering thousands of voters and advocating for a higher minimum wage has been shut down -- means be damned, in
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