Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Saturday, May 22, 2010

<i>New Yorker</i> Fact Checkers Drop the Ball

By John Ballard



This is why I'm a big fan of Lindsay Beyerstein.
She's a killer good investigative journalist.





New Yorker Repeats False Claim that James O'Keefe Stalked ACORN in a Pimp Suit


Rebecca Mead's New Yorker profile of conservative online media mogul Andrew Breitbart repeats the false claim that his protege, provocateur videographer James O'Keefe, impersonated a pimp to infiltrate the offices of the anti-poverty, pro-voter registration group ACORN.

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The New Yorker's rigorous fact-checking protocols are legendary. Yet in this case, a discredited myth was smuggled in as fact. By the time the story was published, the pimp suit claim had been thoroughly debunked by more than one independent investigation and several media outlets.




O'Keefe never wore a pimp suit to the ACORN offices, though his videos were edited to give the impression that he did. O'Keefe never even told ACORN workers he was a pimp. All available evidence suggests that he posed as the clean-cut student boyfriend of "prostitute" Hannah Giles, who was supposedly looking for help fleeing her abusive pimp.

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It's discouraging that the New Yorker would uncritically repeat
this thoroughly discredited claim.



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1 comment:

  1. D. M. FawcettMay 22, 2010 at 2:38 AM

    Worse, it now gives the Republicans the ability to lie without actually having to lie: "even the dishonest MSM like the oh-so-lib'rul New Yorker has been forced to admit that ...."

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