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The media got key facts wrong in reporting on the undercover videos of two conservative activists who pretended to be a pimp and a prostitute in a sting attempt on the community organizing group known as ACORN. Why wasn’t the media more skeptical considering the source of the video?

James O’Keefe had been hailed by some conservatives as a media star after his undercover expose of ACORN.  O’Keefe’s arrest for entering a US Senate office, impersonating a telephone repair man, sparked a new debate over O’Keefe’s tactics.

This week Congress voted to cut off ACORN funding after undercover tapes allegedly show ACORN employees giving advice on how to skirt the law. The story got a lot of play from conservative media outlets.  But there has been criticism that the mainstream media was slow to pick up the story.