Yesterday we got a glimpse at the future – or maybe the current state – of investigative journalism when Andrew Breitbart’s new blog, Big Government, posted undercover video of Baltimore ACORN staffers helping two conservative activists set up a brothel that would have supposedly featured underage prostitutes. Or “dependents” as the ACORN tax advisor helpfully counseled.
Within hours of the posting of the video, it was prominently featured on Glenn Beck’s popular Fox News Channel show, and the two ACORN employees had been fired and may be facing criminal charges.
With mainstream media outlets slashing investigative reporting budgets, online video shot by political activists is quickly becoming the way to expose corruption and hypocrisy to the world. And while many in the mainstream media decry this development, I welcome it.
The notion that the New York Times or the Washington Post ever stood up as impartial watchdogs looking out for the public good is laughable. These publications and other MSM outlets have always had a left-leaning political agenda, and their story selection – including what institutions to investigate or “expose” – has always been skewed to fit their agendas.
One needs to look no further than the Post’s recent series of front-page non-stories about Virginia’s GOP gubernatorial nominee – and the near-complete absence of articles about an avowed communist and 9-11 Truther in a senior White House position, ACORN corruption, union corruption, etc. – to see that. The Post’s coverage, quite literally, has become a public joke.
So now we’re all investigative journalists. Yes, we’re biased. But so is every MSM reporter and editor, at least to some degree. So let’s get the facts out there and make it impossible for the mainstream media to ignore them.
Embedded below is the undercover ACORN video shot by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, as well as a hilarious video that O’Keefe shot a few years ago, which brilliantly exposes the absurdity of political correctness on college campuses. In the second video, O’Keefe and a few friends pretend to be distraught Irish Americans who petition to have Lucky Charms cereal removed from the cafeteria on the grounds that it promotes negative stereotypes and creates a hostile environment for them. Incredibly, they were apparently successful in getting Lucky Charms removed from cafeterias at Rutgers University.
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When you look at the front page of the Washington Post and then the Washington Examiner which would you rather read?
Personally I’m opting for the newspaper that isn’t carrying Obama’s water…
Comment by juandos September 12, 2009 @ 6:30 pm