"Journalists who cover politics can miss key angles, but there was a hole in the coverage of last week's primaries and caucuses that was saddening.

What's more, the hole occurred in our coverage -- "our" as in parent Knight Ridder's campaign coverage team and the Star-Telegram.

Neither we nor the candidates examined political issues related to American Indians in the seven states' elections. Four of those states -- Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and North Dakota -- have large Indian populations.

Our coverage shorted readers. They got an incomplete picture of notable trends and forces at work in today's electorate. Readers didn't get the breakthrough reporting that could have surprised them and defied stereotypes."

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Campaign coverage missed one population (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2/8)

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