Clark Hoyt, the New York Times public editor, confessed that his newspaper was "slow to respond" to shocking revelations about the leftist radical community organizing group, ACORN.

The NY Times reports that, "last Sunday's column about the coverage of Acorn prompted nearly 400 messages and online comments from readers, some convinced the The Times is suppressing news that might damage liberals, and others equally convinced that The Times is about to cave into extremists on the right."

The belligerent reponses hinted how difficult it can be to navigate a polarized world - in this instance, Acorn is either an atrociously corrupt radical organization or an innocent victim of a re-newed MCCarthyism - when truth frequently lies somewhere in the middle.

As a recap, two conservative activists holding a concealed video camera, posing as a pimp and his prostitute, visited offices of Acorn, the community organizing group, and tricked employees into unusual conversations about how to establish a whore house, cheat on taxes and smuggle under-age girls from Central America. The story blew up on Fox News and conservative blogs, but The Times "was slow to respond."

According to the NY Times, "Bill Keller, the executive director of The Times, and Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, said they would assign an editor to monitor media opinion from now on and to brief them frequently. That upset some readers, who look it to mean that the editors would let right-wing media determine futre news judgements."

Quite a few leftist readers denounced the NY Times for taking other news websites into consideration when making decisions on "all the news that's fit to print." Yet, conservatives blamed a liberal bias on the part of NY Times' editors for its admittedly slow response to the rapidly unfolding Acorn story.

As reported by the NY Times, "it is a good story, worth pursuing. But because Acorn has become such a politcal symbol, don't expect the controversy to go away, no matter what The Times reports."

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