Media Matters - Chicago Tribune linked Obama stock purchase and legislation, leaving out his denial that he knew of purchase

Link: Media Matters - Chicago Tribune linked Obama stock purchase and legislation, leaving out his denial that he knew of purchase.

In a March 9 article on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) February 2005 purchase of stock in AVI Biopharma and SkyTerra Communications, whose investors included donors to his 2004 Senate campaign, the Chicago Tribune reported that "two weeks after Obama purchased" stock in AVI, which was working on an avian influenza drug, "he introduced legislation to increase funding to combat the virus."