At Fox News, guilty until proven innocent

[struggle4progress]

Back on its ACORN hobby horse, Fox News attacks the community organizing group and its possible role as a national partner with the Census Bureau to recruit more than one million temporary workers to go knock on doors for the upcoming census.

Fox stresses ACORN has "a history of voter fraud charges." Actually, that's how the headline is worded. In the actual online article, Fox News insists ACORN has a "history of voter fraud." (The pesky ref to "charges" gets dropped.) But does ACORN have a history of voter fraud? An ACORN rep tells Fox the organization has never been convicted of any crime, and the Fox article doesn't produce any evidence to the contrary ...

http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903180007

[sakabatou]

1. What do you expect from Fixed Noise?

[struggle4progress]

2. Not surprised. But it'll get worse: as the economy declines, they'll be doing everything they can

to stir up the wingnuts. Worth casting an eye in that direction from time to time to see what they're up to. Wouldn't be good to be caught completely by surprise