Walsh: Breitbart should've been discredited for pushing heavily edited ACORN videos, yet Fox ran with his Sherrod smear

You think? But he has become the darling of Faux News and the far rw! Doncha know that he is standing strong for their rights against the largely non-existent African American hatred of white people? And besides, he's a true patriot for standing against the abuses of the Obama WH. Never mind that he created these "abuses."

I think they're missing the larger point that all of the mainstream media is highly sensationalized. There's not so much of a focus anymore on journalism as there is on fluff pieces and stories with shock value--facts be damned.

When the media execs got hold of the edited Sherrod video they immediately began to salivate and say to themselves, "Ratings! Ratings! Ratings!"

But now the media as a whole, not just Fox News, has even less credibility than before, which was marginal to begin with. The only network that gained anything from this story was CNN because they engaged in a bare minimum of actual journalism, which in today's media is sadly more than what we're used to seeing.

Well, technically, the entire beltway press corps should be discredited for its performance during the Bush and Clinton years. Washington is a town where people are maginalized for saying rude things like "the U.S.A.'s black sites and gitmo are comparable to gulags" and "the republicans health care plan is 'die quickly'", not for crazy right-wing smear campaigns.

"heavily edited" ??

Edited so that it appeared Acorn employees were committing crimes, when in fact the opposite was/is true.

I still don't know why Acorn hasn't sued him and the "actors".

BTW...CNN's very own "investigative" reporter Drew Griffin falsely accused Acorn of "voter fraud", then almost every program on CNN falsely smeared Acorn for DAYS:

The following 50 CNN segments did not include either of the above relevant facts (all program times ET):

Date
Show
Anchors/Correspondents/Guests
10/15
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Host Lou Dobbs, correspondent Bill Tucker
10/15
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs, correspondent Drew Griffin, Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf
10/15
CNN Newsroom 1 PM
Anchor Kyra Phillips, Griffin
10/15
CNN Newsroom 11 AM
Anchor Tony Harris, Griffin
10/15
CNN Newsroom 10 AM
Anchor Heidi Collins, correspondent Brian Todd
10/15
CNN Newsroom 9 AM
Collins, Griffin
10/15
American Morning 7 AM
Anchor Kiran Chetry, Griffin
10/15
American Morning 6 AM
Chetry
10/14
Anderson Cooper 360
Host Anderson Cooper, political analysts David Gergen, Roland Martin, Alex Castellanos
10/14
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs, Tucker
10/14
Situation Room 6 PM
Host Wolf Blitzer, Todd
10/14
Situation Room 6 PM
Blitzer, Griffin
10/14
Situation Room 4 PM
Blitzer, correspondent Jessica Yellin
10/14
CNN Newsroom 3 PM
Anchor Rick Sanchez, presidential candidate Ralph Nader (I)
10/14
CNN Newsroom 3 PM
Sanchez, correspondent Joshua Levs
10/14
CNN Newsroom 2 PM
Phillips, WEWS reporter Duane Pohlman
10/14
CNN Newsroom 1 PM
Phillips, Levs
10/14
CNN Newsroom Noon
Harris, Pohlman
10/14
CNN Newsroom 11 AM
Harris, Griffin, Blitzer
10/14
CNN Newsroom 11 AM
Harris, Tucker, Levs
10/14
CNN Newsroom 10 AM
Collins, Pohlman
10/14
CNN Newsroom 9 AM
Collins, Tucker
10/14
American Morning 7 AM
Chetry, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani (R)
10/13
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs, Tucker
10/13
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs
10/13
Situation Room 5 PM
Blitzer, Griffin
10/13
CNN Newsroom 1 PM
Phillips, Griffin
10/12
The Next President: Battlegrounds
Host John King, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner
10/12
Lou Dobbs This Week
Dobbs, Griffin
10/12
Lou Dobbs This Week
Dobbs, Tucker
10/12
Lou Dobbs This Week
Dobbs, New York Daily News columnist Errol Louis, Sheinkopf
10/12
CNN Sunday Morning 9 AM
Anchor Betty Nguyen, Griffin
10/11
The Next President: Battlegrounds
King, Brunner
10/11
Lou Dobbs This Week
Dobbs, Griffin
10/11
Lou Dobbs This Week
Dobbs, Tucker
10/11
Lou Dobbs This Week
Dobbs, Louis, Sheinkopf
10/10
Larry King Live
Host Larry King, Griffin
10/10
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs, Tucker
10/10
CNN Newsroom 1 PM
Phillips, Griffin
10/10
CNN Newsroom Noon
Harris, Griffin
10/10
CNN Newsroom 9 AM
Nguyen, Griffin
10/10
American Morning 8 AM
Anchor John Roberts, Griffin
10/9
Anderson Cooper 360
Cooper, Griffin
10/9
Larry King Live
King, Democratic strategist Tanya Acker, Republican strategist Andrea Tantaros, Democratic strategist Paul Begala
10/9
CNN Election Center
Host Campbell Brown, Griffin
10/9
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs, Griffin
10/9
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs, Tucker
10/9
Situation Room 5 PM
Roberts, Griffin
10/9
CNN Newsroom 3 PM
Sanchez, Griffin
10/7
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Dobbs