Must Readings On ACORN’s Decline And Fall
September 21, 2009
Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart has an absolute must-read article in today’s Washington Times giving the back story on how the Acorn videos exploded into public view and forced the group to fight for survival. Breitbart believed the mainstream media would “try to kill this important and illuminating expose … and that the well-funded political left would go into ‘war room’ mode, with the 25-year-old Mr. O’Keefe and 20-year-old cohort Miss Giles in the cross hairs.” So he and O’Keefe hatched a strategy to “force the media to see the evidence before they had enough time to destroy” the messengers by posting the footage on Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com. It’s a brilliant illustration of how the Internet is shaking the foundations of the modern media.