Seattle Times reporters fact-check their employer's pro-GOP ad, find it only 'half true'
Source: Seattle Times
The claim: The Seattle Times has been running newspaper ads supporting Republican Rob McKenna's candidacy for governor. Two recent ads — one focused on education, the other on jobs — made a variety of claims. The education ad notes the student failure rate in K-12 schools, per-student funding and how well prepared students are for college. The jobs ad addresses the state's unemployment rate.
What we found: Half true
The ads are an independent-expenditure campaign by the corporate side of The Seattle Times Co., which said it is running a series of political ads as an experiment to attract more political advertising. The company said the ads were prepared by a contractor it declined to name.
... In an email, Seattle Times Co. spokeswoman Jill Mackie said the contractor who put together the ads erred by adding the state's dropout rate to the failure-to-graduate rate. That's a mistake because the failure-to-graduate rate already includes dropouts.
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