On its surface NPR provides what appears as a fairly balanced report about Andrew Breitbart.  The story’s sucker punch however comes in the final paragraph, and I doubt the reporter even knew he was throwing it. I will acknowledge that the reporter is fair for most of the story. He has some good quotes from Breitbart and Instapundit blogger and U. of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds. These are balanced with comments from New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt. In the end, however, the reporter’s bias slips through when he ties what Breitbart does to James O’Keefe with: A New Kind Of Journalism says, and O’Keefe says, they are performing a new kind of journalism. … reporters at other outlets have repeatedly questioned O’Keefe’s tactics: the deception; the editing choices in the ACORN videos. This comes after spending several paragraphs describing the activity for which O’Keefe was arrested. The point isn’t subtle at all. Breitbart and O’Keefe “are perfoming a new kind of journalism.”  O’Keefe’s “new kind of jourlanism” requires “tactics” questioned by “reporters at other outlets” and includes breaking the law. Therefore, Breitbart is paired with unscrupulous tactics that including breaking the law in order to

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