A VICTORY - AT 9:32 P.M. ET:  Sometimes there are sweet moments:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.

The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.

COMMENT:  Translated into plain English, the two "conservative activists" did the work that so-called "journalists" should have done.  It is a good guide to the future.  More and more, the best journalism may well be done outside the old-time media. 

Note that 83-7 vote.  I'll check out who the unlucky seven are.  I have my suspicions. 

September 14, 2009