Sep 21 2009
Miami Adult Entertainment: Daughter of a preacher man
A couple of days ago I wrote about Darryl Fears’ snarky Washington Post story about the independent journalists who have targeted community organizing group ACORN. Their videos show employees of ACORN advising how to set up a brothel with underage girls (who are sex-trafficked!) in the most tax-friendly way. It’s not much of a religion story but Fears has been trying to make it one. And with the reticence that much of the mainstream media has had in covering the story, perhaps it’s good that the Post is covering it at all.
I took Fears to task for his use of the phrase “ultra-conservative” to describe the evangelical church that is run by the father of one of the independent journalists. He reverses that designation in a follow-up story. For what it’s worth, I heard from a few people who had dealt with Fears before. They complained that he has a penchant for labeling groups on the right but not labeling counterparts on the left. So in his stories about ACORN, they’re described as “community activists” but not liberal or ultra-liberal or what not.