Not letting facts get in the way

I mention this link as a firmly undecided voter, so there's no agenda other than good journalism. It's a really interesting look at how a story, not based on fact, still can get a lot of traction when journalists don't do their jobs.

It's from the blog Get Religion and it's about how the press has been quick to report that Obama is getting more support from white evangelicals than have previous Democratic nominees. Turns out, it ain't true. Mollie Ziegler writes:

Now, it may be true that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has failed to get many folks, including evangelicals, excited about him. But given all the coverage to the contrary, I was somewhat surprised to see the results of a new Pew study that indicates that Obama is getting slightly fewer — that’s right — fewer white evangelical supporters than John Kerry was at the same time four years ago.