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The Columbia Journalism Review, evidently concerned that the Washington Post has caved into conservatives by providing excessive coverage of the ACORN scandal, has explored the controversy in an interview with Nixonland author Rick Perlstein.

"I mean, why would a newspaper like the Post be training its investigative focus on ACORN now?" Perlstein asks rhetorically in the interview. "Whether you think well or ill of ACORN, they’re a very marginal group in the grand scheme of things—and about as tied to the White House as the PTA."