Reuters Responsive (sort of) to Abramoff Criticism

I noticed Reuters passing along the line that Dems took money from Abramoff.  The title was "Abramoff scandal sends waves across Washington" and the quote was "Both Republicans and Democrats received campaign funds from Abramoff, but much of the attention has been focused on former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio."

So I fired off a note to the author Andy Sullivan (heh) and got a polite response that he was going to file an update later today and would look into the matter.

rest after the flip

Well, the update now says this: "Though Abramoff personally only gave money to Republicans his Indian-tribe clients contributed to Democrats as well, campaign-finance records show."

Is it good reporting?  I don't think so.  But it is accurate, and if we can't get the press to question the veracity of the lies they are told, we will never be able to get them to analyse them.  So I'll chalk this up as a minor victory.

But I do think the process of engaging them works.  I might just follow this guys work more in the future and see if I can help point him in the right direction.

BTW, nothing too interesting in the story it self, but you can find it here: http://today.reuters.com/...