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Reporter's Notebook: Dennes Longoria

Tax funded ACORN caught on film promoting child prostitution. Only FOX news covers it at first. CNN joins later.

Posted by Dennes Longoria - September 10, 2009 at 6:12 pm

I guess there's supposed to be a sleaze-factor to simply reporting this, even if true. But what is more sleazy, reporting it, or the acts described in the story, if true... I mean...

Any way, if you were watching fox news, you saw how this morning, some website (biggovernment.com) broke some video of some ACORN employee telling people (who were part of a sting operation) it was OK to have underage Salvadoran girls living in one's household and performing tricks (eg: being sex slaves) as long as they were claimed as dependants. They just said ''don't tell us about it and we won't know'' essentially--i'm paraphrasing a little. The video has been playing on fox news all day and I checked the web and the Wall Street Journal has an article on it, and some other major websites too... and I guess this stuff is paid for with our tax dollars, so do we want to support that? I certainly don't.... But no one other than FOX seems to care, and that is not sufficient to get everyone all riled up in action. It has to be reported by all the mainstream media at once.

This is the first time something has gone from web to a section of mainstream this fast, that I recall...  for all we know it is fox news that is being set up to look stupid when further details surface that the receptionist was herself a sting operation to uncover sleazy smearing techniques of the opposition and put an end to them...

 

update on 9/11: CNN is also now reporting the story. I do not know the exact time they started. It could have been right after FOX, but FOX claimed they were the only ones for a while, and I was going with that, but then they also corrected it to say CNN was reporting it, as well...sorry for the confusion.

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