Accuracy in Media

It’s quite an interesting, yet symbolic, gesture by both parties to keep taking down the picture and putting it back up again. Read what NBC News had to say about it: A high school student’s painting that depicts the tension between police and the black community in Ferguson, Missouri, keeps getting pulled down from a […]

From CBS News’ ’60 Minutes’ transcript from this past week on the rising violence and death toll in Chicago: Brian Warner is a former Chicago cop. He was shot in 2011. Now Warner counsels officers suffering from extreme stress. He explained what a dozen beat cops told us off-camera: they had stepped back. Brian Warner: You […]

NBC News’ headline read, “Sharp Rise in Ambush Killings Leaves Police Officers, Families on Edge”, leaving out the hard statistics facing police officers and their families: They appear to be under attack by suspects. At least the article detailed the grim statistics, such as 56% spike in officers shot and killed, 21 officers killed in […]

In a segment on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe,‘ Chuck Todd made the remark, “How do you train prejudice and hate out of somebody’s heart? That’s a tough thing.” That sounds biased to begin with and a big over-generalization.

Micah Xavier Johnson, an Army veteran, had orchestrated the ambush on Dallas police officers in downtown Dallas, said Dallas police. He killed five officers, wounding seven others, before being killed.

In Valdosta, Georgia, the suspect called 9-1-1 to report a vehicle being broken into and then shot the responding police officer. The officer is expected to recover from his injury and the suspect was also wounded in the subsequent exchange.

Five police officers lost their lives in a sniper-style ambush in downtown Dallas, Texas, and six others were wounded. There were at least two sniper suspects and it led to a standoff that ended at about 3:30 am.