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Howard Kurtz this morning surveys the broadcast news networks about "Saturation Sunday," also known as President Obama's media blitz on the television news talk shows yesterday. As most information junkies know by now, the president visited every major program (plus Univision's "Al Punto") except for "Fox News Sunday."

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ABC News, like other traditional media organizations, has been slow to move on the ACORN undercover video stories (although reporter Jake Tapper has shown signs that he's interested). But on "Nightline" this week they ran an excellent undercover report about the types of child exploiters that the ACORN housing facilitators would have helped by letting them ply their trade without detection. The focus of the story is Cambodia, where a NGO called APLE ("Action Pour Les Enfants") combats sexual… Continue

The news all around this morning is that ACORN is finally taking a different tack on the "pimp and the prostitute" scandal. They've stopped taking new clients until they get to the bottom of this. They took down their arrogant statement from over the weekend in which they blamed the messenger. They promise to clean up their act.

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Welcome to the New York Times. The Grey Old Hag finally got one of its own reporters on the week-old week-long ACORN pimp/prostitute stories that's exposed the radicals using their own rules, but not surprisingly the Times has their unique way of doing things. The spin? The well-worn "conservatives get a scalp" approach, almost as tired as the weekly Sunday talk show "he said, she said" stories. In other words, it was about the political baseball game rather than the scummy… Continue