# NYT apologized for ACORN story, where are Doper apologies? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 4, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-apologized-for-acorn-story-where-are-doper-apologies/534945 "2010-04-04T20:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 92
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-apologized-for-acorn-story-where-are-doper-apologies/534945/92 "2010-04-05T18:16:34Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > It doesn’t. But now that you know more about the story, had your opinion changed on the matter? After all, it was your thread titled, “ACORN workers caught on tape apparently advising on child prostitution,” that kicked this off. > > The tapes were heavily edited. > Conversations were shown out of sequence. > He didn’t pretend to be a pimp, instead said he was a law student. > Other than him recording people, no illegal activity was found. That’s a curious statement. The tape has one ACORN worker saying, “Don’t get caught, because it is against the law.” Now we can imagine all sorts of creative editing, but it’s unclear to me how you get to someone saying, _Don’t get caught, ’cause it is against the law,_ unless they are advising someone not to get caught doing something that is against the law. Nothing I wrote about this issue relied on how O’Keefe was dressed. And what ACORN did wrong was not commit a crime, but show supreme indifference to whether their advice was helping to further a crime. That’s not illegal. But if we are funding organizations like ACORN to do community outreach and support, I would like them staffed with people that don’t respond like that. That’s a legitimate call for me (or Congress) to make. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-apologized-for-acorn-story-where-are-doper-apologies/534945)._