There’s no hiding the fact – ACORN should be in trouble for it’s activities

The Census Bureau has severed ties and the Senate to block housing funding to the anti-poverty group ACORN. Other groups with similar stated goals are left wondering how the fallout might affect them.

ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, says its mission is to provide services to low-income communities, including housing counseling and voter registration drives.

But the group is on its heels after conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn, N.Y., gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. A fourth video released Tuesday shows a similar scene at an ACORN office in California.

"A major national scandal and none of the broadcast networks is covering it," said Dan Gainor, vice president for business and culture at the Media Research Center. "This is the news media in the era of Van Jones and President Obama. The major outlets cover what they want and create the themes they want."

Is the ACORN scandal worthy of national broadcast news coverage? ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson said he didn't even know what the scandal was about.

Later Tuesday, ABC sought to clarify Gibson's comments: "He was aware of the general story and Jake's reporting on it but wasn't familiar with it as it was described to him on the radio this morning."

NBC, CBS and MSNBC are covering the growing ACORN scandal today. CNN and ABC, meanwhile, have already run some segments on the matter, including a quick mention during Saturday's "Good Morning America."

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