Newsday repeated misleading claim from 2006 NY Times article about Clinton's contributions from "health care industry" |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 7:46 pm |
| Tags: newsday, the new york times, 2008 elections, government elections, hillary clinton |
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In a September 16 Newsday article on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) health care reform proposal, the third part of which she released on September 17, reporter Glenn Thrush repeated an assertion made in a 2006 New York Times article that the health care "industry contributed more than $850,000 to her re-election campaign, the second highest level of contributions to any senator." However, Thrush did not note that the number includes donations from individual health care professionals, such as nurses and doctors, and neither Thrush nor the Times noted that if only health care political action committee (PAC) donations were considered -- that is, donations from the actual health care "industry" -- Clinton drops off the list of top 25 congressional recipients of health care industry money entirely. The New York Times reported on July 12, 2006, in a front-page article: "Separate analyses by the Center for Responsive Politics, an independent [ Full article ] |
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