Media Ignore Serious Flaw in Clinton's Indiana Ad

Published: May 4, 2008, 2:07 pm

Tags: 2008 presidential, campaigns amp amp elections, bill clinton, charles gibson, george w bush, hillary clinton, jake tapper, abc, msnbc com, world news

Last Wednesday, ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" exposed a serious flaw in a television advertisement Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is running in Indiana (video embedded right, h/t Gateway Pundit).In fact, Indiana newspapers began pointing out the former first lady's mistake almost three weeks ago after she spoke at a school in that state.Yet, according to LexisNexis, no other television network felt this issue deserved any coverage, nor did many major newspapers outside of Indiana.For some background, here's how ABC reported Hillary's flub on Wednesday (video available here): CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And as Hillary Clinton crisscrosses Indiana, ahead of next Tuesday's primary, one economic story about lost jobs and foreign competition has become a staple of her campaign stops. But it turns out to be a story with some holes in it. Our senior political correspondent, Jake Tapper, has been looking at that story. Jake? JAKE TAPPER (ABC

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