Thread: Revealed: ACORN, NBC Worked Together in "Undercover Video Sting"

REVEALED: ACORN, NBC Worked Together in ‘Undercover Video Sting’

by Publius For greater context on the long history of hidden-camera videos and other forms of aggressive investigative journalism, see Michael Walsh’s piece here.
Since the undercover ACORN videos from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles first broke, the grand pooh-bahs of journalism have gone into self-absorbed philosopher mode. Rather than report on the ACORN corruption playing out before our eyes, “journalists” have tsk-tsked their way through thousands of words and yards of column inches making certain that everyone understands that what James and Hannah did IS…NOT…JOURNALISM. (As if that is the existential question to make sense of the ACORN videos.) Undercover videos and assuming fake identities are things real journalists do not do…except when they do.
Below is a page from ACORN’s 2005 Annual Report. In it, they tell the story of how one of their employees teamed up with NBC Dateline to do a ‘video sting’ on tax-preparer Jackson Hewitt.

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Somehow we missed the missives from the Columbia Journalism Review condemning NBC for staining journalism. We also can’t find James Rainey’s cliche-riddled scolding of NBC for taking part in ACORN’s intentional deception. We can’t imagine the journalism mandarins would approve of such tactics only because they approved of the target. Surely, the criticism of NBC must be out there. If our readers find any links to these critiques, please include them in the comments.


http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/30/...r-video-sting/

Gee, where's "Get Real" and the other drones to tell us that ACORN didn't do anything wrong because the sting videos were illegal? Absolutely priceless.

Unbelievable.

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NBC is so in bed with everything connected to the Obama admistration that this is no surprise. NBC has a large stake in the Cap and Trade/GW hoax. They stand to make billions if this scheme goes forward.

Complete loss of credibility on the part of NBC.

Next thing you know, they'll be wallowing around down there in the gutter with Fox.

Originally Posted by JDubya

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You woke up for a second, then went back to sleep. What's it going to take to keep you awake? Are you satisfied with being a drone for the rest of your life?

Originally Posted by bigac

Gee, where's "Get Real" and the other drones to tell us that ACORN didn't do anything wrong because the sting videos were illegal? Absolutely priceless.

I know your jackass don't like truth and won't even backup your total bullshit.

I NEVER stated that the videos were illegal.

SO...

YOU LIE!!!

Nothing New...For You

Originally Posted by sgt turner

Complete loss of credibility on the part of NBC.

They never had any to begin with.

Originally Posted by bigac

You woke up for a second, then went back to sleep. What's it going to take to keep you awake?

Certainly not this kind of boring, nit-picking minutae.