Sunday, February 08, 2004

Misleading Headlines

"Dean Paid $7.2 million to aide's company."

Look, this is technically true, but most of the money was then spent to place TV ads. So, that's the gross revenue, not the net revenue. It isn't until 2/3 of the way through the article that you realize this is the case. It's fair to ask if Dean spent too much money on advertising, fair to ask if there ws a conflict of interest with Trippi, etc... But, the article makes it sounds as if Trippi's company netted a cool $7.2 million from the Dean campaign which isn't even close to being true.