Media Matters - The Caucus

Media Matters - The Caucus http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/the_caucus This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: The Caucus en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America NY Times Caucus blog reported McCain's attack on Obama's "big oil contributions," but not that McCain received more http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040004 In reporting the McCain campaign's attack on Sen. Barack Obama for "the $400,000 from big oil contributors" he has received, The New York Times' The Caucus blog did not point out that, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. John McCain has received approximately $1.3 million from the oil and gas industry, more than triple the amount Obama has received. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040004 Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:47:34 EST NY Times blog ignored poll showing Obama's Hispanic support http://mediamatters.org/items/200806160003 Despite a recent poll showing Sen. Barack Obama holding a 34 percentage-point lead over Sen. John McCain among Hispanic voters, the New York Times blog The Caucus uncritically reported remarks by Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) touting McCain's helpfulness to GOP candidates in Colorado and New Mexico "because of the Hispanic vote." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806160003 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:25:01 EST NY Times' Caucus blog reported McCain's criticism of Obama's "commitment" to public financing, but not that McCain may have violated public financing system's spending limits http://mediamatters.org/items/200804130002 The New York Times' political blog, The Caucus, reported that Sen. John McCain's campaign "believes" Sen. Barack Obama "reneged on his pledge to accept public financing," and that McCain's campaign "circulated an editorial ... that questioned Mr. Obama's commitment to the public financing system." However, The Caucus did not report that McCain may have violated campaign finance laws by surpassing spending limits under the public financing system for the primary campaign. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804130002 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:19:30 EST NY Times' Healy claimed Clinton's use of "pueda" didn't make sense -- but she got only the tense wrong http://mediamatters.org/items/200801230002 In a blog post, New York Times reporter Patrick Healy wrote that as Spanish-speaking voters chanted "Si se puede" at a rally in California, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "bellowed into her microphone, 'Si se pueda is right!' " Healy added, "Several colleagues who speak better Spanish than I do say that 'pueda' (as opposed to 'puede') has meaning in other contexts, but it does not really make sense in this one." In fact, Clinton used the correct verb but the wrong tense. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801230002 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:55:52 EST