Have the recent bouts of cost-cutting at the Times meant staffers no longer have access to Nexis/Lexis to do simple research before making transparently false claims? And hey, last time I checked Google was still free to use, so what's the excuse?

But that didnt' stop the Times from unfurling this whopper [emphasis added]:

Still, the Acorn story is somewhat different in that it hasn't been so readily picked up; it's been publicized heavily by Fox and conservative talk radio but much less so by other news organizations

This was published on the Times' website on Sept. 17. (It was dubbed a “must-read.”) Here however, according to Nexis, is a partial list of just the daily newspapers nationwide that had covered the ACORN story between Sept. 10-17 (and the number of separate times the ACORN story was addressed in articles or columns):

New York Post (11)

San Bernardino Sun (7)

Washington Times (6)

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (5)

Baltimore Sun (5)

St. Petersburg Times (4)

Newark Star-Ledger (4)

St. Paul Pioneer Press (4)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (3)

Kansas City Star (3)

Boston Globe (3)

Orlando Sentinel (2)

Chicago Tribune (2)

Washington Post (2)

New York Daily News (2)

Los Angeles Times (2)

Newsday (2)

Wall Street Journal (2)

Miami Herald (2)

The Oregonian (2)

An additional 60-plus newspapers covered the ACORN story one time between Sept. 10-17, according to Nexis. In total, over 100 newspapers reported on ACORN during that time frame and published well over 200 articles and columns in which ACORN was mentioned multiple times.

But other than that, the Times was correct to claim last week that the ACORN story “hasn't been so readily picked up.”