http://mediamatters.org/items/200708020001?f=h_topIn a July 31 article on possible Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson's June fundraising totals, Washington Post staff writer Matthew Mosk reported that Thompson "will file the first accounting of his potential presidential campaign's fundraising activity with the Internal Revenue Service tomorrow, and the report will show that the enterprise raised between $3.1 million and $3.2 million in June, according to sources familiar with the Thompson operation." But the article failed to note that Thompson's fundraising haul falls short of a June goal of $5 million the Post itself reported at the time that the campaign had set.
A June 21 Post article reported that "in the months since Thompson's name first bounced around Washington as a possible Republican candidate for president, the actor has slowly built interest with well-placed leaks about a growing political staff, developing campaign strategy and a $5 million fundraising target." According to a separate June 21 Post article, the campaign suggested that the $5 million fundraising "target" was for the month of June:
Campaign aides initially signaled that he would raise $5 million in June but later worked to play down expectations. The anticipated announcement date for the campaign has shifted repeatedly, with sources close to Thompson first predicting July 4, then mid-July, late July and now early September.
Furthermore, a May 31 Post article reported on a conference call in which the campaign instructed a group of 100 Thompson backers each to raise $46,000, for a total of $4.6 million:
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