"Establishment media" shows why it's out of touch--it involves ACORN

Last night I watched as Bernie Goldberg, on "O'Reilly Factor," deride the term "mainstream media." That's because the media for the most part ignores important stories--such as the ACORN scandals--that damage the left.

He went on to explain that he's looking a new term for the MSM--"establishment media" was the one I liked the best.

And just twelve hours later, Goldberg's point was proven--again--about establishment media bias. ABC News' anchor Charles Gibson was a guest on Don Wade & Roma's WLS-AM Chicago morning talk show earlier today.

From Red Lasso:

Don: Ok here's my question, Senate bill yesterday passes cutting off funds to this group called ACORN. Now we got the…we got that bill passing, we got the embarrassing video of ACORN staff giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel with 13 year old hookers. It has everything you could want corruption and sleazy action at tax funded organizations that’s got government ties. But nobody’s covering that story why?

Charlie Gibson: (laugh) I don’t even know about it. Uh, so you got me at a loss, I don’t know. Uh, uh, but, but my goodness if it's got everything including sleaziness in it we should talk about it this morning.

Roma: This is the American way…

Charlie Gibson: Well maybe, maybe that's one you just leave to the cables.

Roma: Well I think that this is a huge issue because there’s so much funding that goes into this organization and it's a multi…

Charlie Gibson: Well, I know we've done some stories about ACORN before but uh, uh this one I don't know about.

Roma: Jake Tapper (ABC News' White House correspondent) did some blogging on it. I know he’s at least blogged once on this scandal.

Charlie Gibson: You guys, you guys are really up on the uh on the website.

Gibson needs to read other newspapers besides the New York Times.

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