according to Moncrief (via Flopping Aces):
Heather Heidelbaugh, who represented the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee in the lawsuit against the group, recounted for the Committee what she had been told by a former ACORN worker who had worked in the group’s Washington, D.C. office. The former worker, Anita Moncrief, told Ms. Heidelbaugh last October, during the state committee’s litigation against ACORN, she had been a “confidential informant for several months to The New York Times reporter, Stephanie Strom.â€
Ms. Moncrief had been providing Ms. Strom with information about ACORN’s election activities. Ms. Strom had written several stories based on information Ms. Moncrief had given her.
During her testimony, Ms. Heidelbaugh said Ms. Moncrief had told her The New York Times articles stopped when she revealed that the Obama presidential campaign had sent its maxed-out donor list to ACORN’s Washington, D.C. office.
Ms. Moncrief told Ms. Heidelbaugh the campaign had asked her and her boss to “reach out to the maxed-out donors and solicit donations from them for Get Out the Vote efforts to be run by ACORN.â€
Ms. Heidelbaugh then told the congressional panel:
“Upon learning this information and receiving the list of donors from the Obama campaign, Ms. Strom reported to Ms. Moncrief that her editors at The New York Times wanted her to kill the story because, and I quote, “it was a game changer.â€â€™
Comment by Spam Heap on 3/31 @ 2:10 am #
“News” papers are dying because they no longer present “news.”
They present propaganda to make their bad guys look bad. Otherwise, well, it’s not fit to print, is it?
Sadly for them, not all the perfumes of Araby will sweeten the sewage they pump, at least not enough to make it generally salable. And so, they’ll eventually go away.
One hopes, and feels sure, the Republic will survive the demise of those hideous crotch-rotted abortionist midgets.
Comment by Spam Heap on 3/31 @ 2:14 am #
Oh, BTW, I’m still basking in the glow of Iowahawk’s dialog between Coulter and Maher, whence that last bit.
Comment by Carin on 3/31 @ 12:17 pm #
It is to laugh, because last week everyone here was talking about the papers dying, and amid all their explanations (reduced revenue from classifieds, for one) no one EVER suggested that people had stopped reading and buying their papers out of disgust for the product. I know that is why I cancelled my subscription.
I also feel, that those who would LIKE to read a paper, are underwhelmed by the low volume of news in the local rag. They write it for the low info reader … and many of those folks aren’t reading it anyway.
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