Woodward and Bernstein helped bring down a president in the 1970s. Now O’Keefe and Giles are helping to bring down both ACORN and the fourth estate with their series of Internet videos. And the press is taking it none too kindly.
In response, they’re smearing the messenger instead of doing their job by spreading the message that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Racketeering Now) is rotten to the core and that President Obama has a long history with the taxpayer-funded group.
The Washington Post once accepted anonymous revelations from a secret source known only as “Deep Throat” that proved damaging to the president of the United States in 1972. Yet now the same paper now questions the motives of two amateur reporters whose secretly filmed revelations are proving embarrassing to the current president.
Did the Post or any other news organization question Woodward and Bernstein’s motives back then? Of course not.
In a devastating piece, Dan Calabrese asks,
Why, exactly, do O’Keefe and Giles now have to defend themselves and their independence, when the result of their work clearly speaks for itself?
Part of the issue is obviously ideological bias. The mainstream media is far less happy to see a left-wing organization exposed as a criminal fraud, especially one so closely connected to the left-wing president in which they have so much invested.
But there is more to it than that.
O’Keefe and Giles represent the kind of new reality that threatens the very existence of media dinosaurs like the Washington Post.
Read it and weep, dinosaurs. Read it and weep.
Source: PajamasMedia.com, NorthStarNational.com
