New Orleans Escorts: The new journalism
January 28, 2010
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January 28, 2010
The four young men arrested this week in an apparent plot to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office had been groomed for years to be part of a new wave of activist conservative journalists by a series of influential and often deep-pocketed benefactors.
But their recent exploits and now their arrests have troubled some of those supporters. And they are now questioning the kind of guerilla journalism that connected the four young men and that many conservative activists celebrated when one of those arrested, James O’Keefe, secretly videotaped ACORN employees last year as they appeared to encourage him and a partner, posing as a pimp and prostitute, to circumvent the law.
“There is a responsible way to creatively generate a story or an incident which challenges the left in an ethical, yet aggressive way,” said Steven Sutton, who heads campus journalism outreach at the conservative non-profit Leadership Institute in Arlington, Va., where O’Keefe worked in 2006 and early 2007 training right-lean …
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