The widespread reporting of "climategate" as if proven, covering only the controversy and not following up on the real crimes committed **by those who fabricated the story** is not an isolated incident. It is the *pattern* of the corporate media, on every story that pits corporate interests against advocates of the public interest.
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Even as the New York Times once again misreported the ACORN "Pimp" Hoax... their Public Editor (ombudsman) Clark Hoyt finally admits in his column tonight, for tomorrow's paper, that both he and the paper were "wrong" in their reports about rightwing dirty trickster James O'Keefe's "pimp" costume, adding that "editors say they are considering a correction
Considering?! What exactly would be the hold up?
The paper and Hoyt... were out and out wrong in their reports about O'Keefe, and what his highly-edited, heavily-overdubbed, secretly-taped videos misleadingly suggested to show, and in their failure to report exculpatory information, such as the refusal to release the unedited raw videos made by the rightwing propagandists, as well as the results of an investigation by MA's former Attorney General finding no "pattern of illegal conduct" by ACORN employees.
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I don't know how many letters to how many editors it will take to pressure the corporate media to set their records straight on both these issues, but I do know that there is only one way to find out.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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