NYTimes Cleanses Thor Hearne’s Record, Scrubs Front-Page Reference to the GOP Vote-Suppressor’s ‘American Center for Voting Rights’

Paper Fails to Note Change to Article, Hearne’s Ties to Bush/RNC, Discredited Background as Partisan Operative…

The good news: The complaints about references made to GOP vote-suppressor Thor Hearne’s now-defunct front group, American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR), have resulted in the New York Times dropping the reference to ACVR from yesterday’s front-page article, to which we referred yesterday, with no small amount of disgust.

The bad news: The Times didn’t bother to note their error (at least not in this online version of the story) as one would expect, as per transparent, journalistic ethics. More disturbingly, nor did they bother to note Hearne’s continuing paid-partisan position as the GOP’s top “voter fraud” scammer-in-chief, pushing for disenfranchising Photo ID laws around the country, his role in writing the very laws he’s quoted discussing, his discredited and debunked ACVR group or their participation revealed at the heart of the U.S. Attorney Purge which pushed out Republican attorneys for not pursuing non-existent cases of “voter fraud” with enough fervor, or even his post as the national general counsel for Bush/Cheney ‘04 Inc. who mislead Congressional members during hearings on these matters in 2005.

The story now refers to him only as “a lawyer from Missouri who has been a strong advocate for voter ID laws.” Almost sounds like Honest Abe Lincoln, don’t it?

In other words, the infamous GOP snake-oil salesman Hearne has been cleansed of his baggage by the New York Times themselves. So, apparently, he remains in good stead as a source when it comes to the Times, NPR, etc. Credibility, apparently, is not a necessary quality for sources quoted by such organizations. Nor, apparently, is transparency.

What’s next for the Times? Quoting Ahmed Chalabi as an unimpeachable source claiming Sadam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction? Oh, wait, never mind…

–by Brad Friedman

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Par for the course at the NYT - - along with hundreds of other news items it has, for two decades now, distorted, mangled, “forgot” to mention essential parts of, or failed to report altogether.
Its only saving grace is that the other remaining corporate owned news papers are even worse. Read the Washington Post lately ? It reads like Karl Rove’s daily newsletter.
The MSM are in very deep dodo. They know it, we know it. And the corporate bozos who dictate the curvature of the “news” are only interested in their profit, their egoistic ideologies, and their growing empires. But they are killing the geese that once laid such good eggs for them because they haven’t got the slightest idea what honest and competent journalism is about. So they all long to follow the brilliant example of Rupert Murdoch, who loses many millions per annum supporting the N Y Post to salve his bloated ego. The problem is that Rupert can afford to screw around playing Monopoly with fake paper bills for a long time, but Pinch Sulzberger can’t.