Senate denies funds for poverty group

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A poverty-rights group that has drawn the ire of conservatives suffered another setback in Washington on Monday when the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to deny it access to federal housing funds.

Are you kidding me?? The headline makes it appear as if our government is withholding funding from an orphanage full of poverty stricken and parentless babies rather than an organization that has been embroiled in controversy for much of the past year (at least).

Why the misleading headline?

M.P.

Does the headline of your article on the ACORN corruption really fit the content of the article?

Scott W.

How can you refer to ACORN as a “poverty Group?” They have been under investigation for voter fraud, voter tampering, and many other illegal things and now the videos show them helping a prostitute and pimp!! POVERTY GROUP!!??

M.D.Y.

Reporting ACORN as a poverty group (sounds touching does it not?) is very biased reporting. Come on and tell the truth!!!

R.D.C.

You have got to be kidding! This is the most embarrassing “news” piece I have every seen published on Reuters. We know that ACORN lacks integrity. It is becoming painfully obvious that Reuters lacks it as well.

THEY WERE GIVING ADVICE ON HOW TO BE EFFECTIVE IN SEX TRAFFICKING!!!

It’s hard to call it a “gotcha” campaign if it happened at three separate offices. Repugnant

Brentzel

I try to read Reuters News on a daily basis due to your normally unbiased reporting, but I am now having second thoughts about my decision. I find it hard to believe that there wasn’t a HEADLINE story on the ACORN scandal covered by Reuters. This is very troublesome and appears that your reporting decisions are questionable, at least. A news agency with such stature should be reporting news, not covering it up. I’m ashamed of Reuters on this one.

R.D.

You need to get out more often. The poor poverty group you portray in the title of your piece makes it seem as though some group you never heard of has been set upon by the Govt. The poor group has been involved with voter fraud in many cities and now the latest video’s showing them trying to give advice on how to defraud the govt. Is this the same group that just lost the contract to do the CENSUS.  Get out and smell the roses.

M.A.

A number of readers objected to our shorthand description of Acorn in this headline, as well as to what they considered insufficient coverage of the controversy surrounding the group: GBU Editor

Above: Demonstrators from ACORN’s Home Defenders rally outside the foreclosed home of Marie Elie in Elmont, New York, April 9, 2009. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Below: A participant holds up a pamphlet as he listens to a speaker during a Congressional rally held by The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on the foreclosure crisis, in Washington, March 11, 2008. REUTERS/Molly Riley

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Obama warns against scare tactics over healthcare

Protesters in Washington brandished American flags and home-made signs venting their anger at Obama and the Democrats who control both houses of the U.S. Congress, accusing them of pushing the country toward bankruptcy with reckless spending.

“Taxed Enough Already!” one man shouted, while others listened to speakers and traded leaflets. The crowd appeared to be one of the largest rallies against Obama since he took office, although it did not come close to matching the turnout on the National Mall for his inauguration in January.

I’ve not been able to find, on online Reuters, news on that huge protest demonstration in Washington, D.C. on the 12th. I searched news stories in the U.S. section and the Politics section, for the last 7 days. Where should I look? Thanks!

Ted W.

You call yourselves a news organization. But you did even mention the largest march on Washington in years. You are obviously in the Obama camp, hook, line and sinker. How shameful.

Rik

Where is the coverage of the Tea Party across the country? Same as all the other lazy no common sense news organizations. Dont have a clue as to whats really happening.

Kris

One million or more people protest in DC. Where is the coverage? Would be nice to see some old fashioned reporting.

Wodun

A number of readers wrote in looking for our coverage of the weekend taxpayer protest in Washington, DC.

We folded two paragraphs on the event into a larger story about a Minneapolis appearance by President Obama on Saturday, but did not have a separate text story.

We did have a video report, but likewise combined it with the Obama story, and the headline, “Obama healthcare plan on the road,” was not exactly user-friendly for readers trying to follow the protests : GBU Editor

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Thousands of demonstrators gather on the plaza near the U.S. Capitol to participate in a “Taxpayer March on DC” protest against President Barack Obama’s fiscal and economic policies including the administration’s health care reform plans in Washington, September 12, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

How is it that America had thousands of Tax Protests yesterday and you don’t have anything listed in your “Top Stories” section?

If there were thousands of individual protests across the county speaking out about war you would have been all over it. But when average American Citizens gather peacefully you act as if it didn’t happen?

Chris

Not one article online about the tea parties. If this had been done during the previous administration your reporters would have been falling all over themselves covering it. What a biased left wing organization. I won’t read your crap again.

S.A.

I have to say supporters of yesterday’s protests certainly did a good job of getting people to complain about our coverage.

We did include several paragraphs about the tea parties in our main Obama tax story yesterday, which seems about right for something that drew “tens of thousands” of people in total. These events make pretty good pictures, and we also did a photo slideshow on them today. GBU Editor

Some activists wear Boston tea party themed costimes as they gather to participate in a tax revolt rally in Santa Barbara, California April 4, 2009. Picture taken April 4, 2009. REUTERS/Phil McCarten

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