As we noted last week, the New York Times, and specifically its public editor, Clark Hoyt, managed to emerge among the losers in the ACORN pimp hoax story. Why? Because the Times, both last year and this, erroneously reported that James O'Keefe had worn his outlandish pimp costume into the ACORN offices last summer.

But that was just bogus right-wing spin.

Worse, when confronted with the facts by blogger Brad Friedman, the Times' Hoyt agreed the pimp costume was not worn, but then refused to recommend that the newspaper correct the record.

Huh?!

That's right. Hoyt confirmed the Times got the facts wrong, and then claimed there was no need for the newspaper to correct those mistakes.

Now ACORN is urging people to contact the daily, as well as other newspapers that got the story wrong, and press editors to publish formal corrections. The community organizing group has set up this site to make the letter-writing easier.

From ACORN [emphasis original]:

The New York Times continues to refuse to state the obvious -- that O'Keefe deceived the public, specifically by editing in “b-roll” of his absurd pimp costume and more broadly by misrepresenting what ACORN organizers do. This despite the clear admission by O'Keefe co-conspirators Hannah Giles and Andrew Breitbart both being caught on tape saying he never wore the pimp suit in any ACORN office. Despite the findings of the Harshbarger report. Despite Breitbart's admission that the pimp get-up was just a marketing gimmick.

Please send a letter to the editor asking the New York Times and other publications to change their reporting to reflect the truth about the ACORN videos.