http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/gannett_news_service This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Gannett News Service en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200806090011 In recent comparisons of Barack Obama's and John McCain's positions, Gannett News Service and the Associated Press claimed that McCain opposes a constitutional amendment banning abortion. However, McCain has previously asserted that he supports such an amendment, and McCain advisers have reportedly said that he would not try to change the Republican Party's platform on abortion, which in 2004 called for a constitutional ban on abortion. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806090011 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:22:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806020004 A Gannett News Service "analysis" by Chuck Raasch asserted that Sen. John McCain "is vulnerable to the flip-flopper label" on taxes "because he voted against [President] Bush's tax cuts, calling them irresponsible without an accompanying resolve to cut government spending." But, while McCain makes that claim <em>now</em> -- that he voted against the tax cuts because of lack of offsetting spending cuts -- he gave a different reason on the Senate floor in 2001 to explain his opposition to the tax cut bill, which Raasch does not mention. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806020004 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 18:25:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090002 A Gannett News Service analysis reported on Sen. John McCain's response to television ads by Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign that criticized McCain "for being AWOL on the nation's economic challenges," stating: "McCain immediately fired back in videos ... that characterized the Democrats as proposing to tax the country out of its economic woes." However, the piece did not mention that the key assertion in McCain's ad is false. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090002 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:56:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802070007 A Gannett News Service article claimed that John McCain "has built up such a straight-talker image that any aroma of pandering or changing positions to placate conservatives would expose him to the flip-flopping label he has pinned on [Mitt] Romney." In fact, on two of the issues cited -- taxes and immigration -- McCain has changed his positions to more closely align himself with the base of the Republican Party, which the article didn't note. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802070007 Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:38:58 EST