Thu, Sep 22, 2005 12:16pm ET

Send to a friend Print Version

Wash. Post issued correction to editorial that hid Bush record on poverty

The September 22 issue of The Washington Post corrected the false claim that the overall poverty rate in the United States has steadily increased "since 1999," which appeared in a September 19 Post editorial. The correction stated: "A Sept. 19 editorial on poverty should have said the poverty rate has been edging upward since 2000, not 1999."

The correction came three days after Media Matters for America posted an item highlighting the error. As we noted, the data actually showed that the poverty rate declined every year of the Clinton presidency and has risen every year of the Bush presidency, hitting a low of 11.3 percent in 2000, the last full year of Clinton's presidency, and rising to 12.7 percent in 2004.

—S.G.

Comments (5) Show
 
Post a new comment

You must be a registered user to post and flag comments on this site.

Please log in or sign up to post in this forum.

Media Matters uses a taxonomy structure to help readers find information on various subjects. You can view all items by issue (the broadest category), view an issue's subissue, and even drill down to a particular topic. You can also look at items according to the related media personality, show/publication and network/publisher.

Social bookmarking sites allow you to save links to interesting items and share them with other users. Some, like Digg.com, also allow you to discuss these items and promote them to wider audiences by "digging" the ones that you like. To start using these services, simply register with the site in question.