Posted on 09/24/2009 7:59:33 PM PDT by underthestreetlite
LOS ANGELES - Much of America discovered James O'Keefe III and Hannah Giles through their hidden-camera, make-believe pimp and prostitute videos of ACORN employees giving advice about establishing a brothel with underage hookers.
But as far back as 2006 — well before the videos became a national sensation and conservative rallying cry — the fresh-faced O'Keefe and Giles connected with a pair of Washington conservative institutions that boast programs training ideological journalists.
Now, due to coordinated promotion of the undercover sting footage by influential players in the conservative media, Giles and O'Keefe have gone from part of the pack to movement superstars.
Giles, a 20-year-old sophomore at Florida International University, spent the summer on a $1,200-a-month internship with the National Journalism Center, a training organization whose alumni include conservative commentator Ann Coulter. Immediately after graduating Rutgers University in 2006, O'Keefe, 25, was paid to set up magazines and newspapers on university campuses for the Leadership Institute, which recruits potential conservative public policy and media stars
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Now this is heartening. Such places to train young guerilla conservatives exist.
‘Conservative links’. Oh, the horror.
The spin aces never give up , do they?
This is just the beginning. I’d be willing to bet that there are millions more Giles and O’Keefes out there who are ready and willing to do the “media’s” job for them.
Funny, but I don’t recall the Star Tribune or ANYBODY during the Watergate fiasco making an issue out of the fact that Bob Woodward attended (leftist) Yale.
....”This is just the beginning.”
....YEP...the kids are so tired of having the lib claptrap shoved down their throat that they’re starting to rebel now....I can;’t wait for them to raise hell on campus.
FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.
The author sounds like a douche trying to make what the whistleblowers did seem like it was part od a sinister conspiracy.
Justin Pritchard is a news editor in the Los Angeles bureau of The Associated Press.
He completed the “Dying to Work” series as an AP reporter in San Francisco after beginning his Justice and Journalism Fellowship in November 2003 with a conference co-sponsored by USC Annenberg’s Institute for Justice and Journalism and the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, also based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He previously had participated in an immigration seminar of the Western Knight Center.
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