The media keeps on swinging at the news and continues to get it wrong, which perpetuates the “fake news” moniker that many Americans refer to after Trump’s election. This time, in a long line of other media falsehoods and disproven narratives, it was that the National Rifle Association banned its members from carrying firearms in […]
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The Associated Press did an article on the SHOT Show, a national gun show that is held in Las Vegas every year for at least the past 20 years. But this year’s story was not just about the gun show. The article’s headline reads, “Gun industry converges near Las Vegas mass shooting site.” Considering the […]
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In the old days, when the Associated Press was the gold standard for unbiased newspaper copy, it broke stories of corruption and covered the trials that sometimes followed. But according to a story on Thursday from investigative journalist Sara Carter, the AP actively assisted the government in its prosecution of former Trump campaign manager Paul […]
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For more than 100 years, the Associated Press was a beacon of unbiased journalism. Its copy delivered the news, withheld the opinion and covered, as Mark Twain once said, everything under the sun. But that’s no longer the case. The AP Stylebook, its guide for questions such as where to put the comma, how to […]
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The Associated Press which in 2013 revised its Stylebook by banning the term “illegal immigrant” went one step further in an article it published on Tuesday by referring to illegal immigrant students affected by President Trump’s repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as “undocumented citizens.” The story reported on Democratic Chicago Mayor […]
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President Trump is making his seventh presidential trip this weekend to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. That has Democrats and the liberal media complaining about the cost to taxpayers of these frequent trips, even though there is no official cost estimate at this time. According to the Associated Press, the most frequently cited number for each […]
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Fake news from the Washington Post debunked? Associated Press reporter Matt Lee, who covers the State Department, disputed the Washington Post allegation that Rex Tillerson told State Department employees to avoid eye contact with him. Tillerson is Trump’s new Secretary of State and leads differently than past cabinet secretaries, which appeared to have irked State […]
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The Associated Press released a report that projected significant economic costs to the state of North Carolina, as a result of the state passing House Bill 2, which the liberal media called the “bathroom bill.” The projections, albeit ten years in the future, are still only projections. The bill ensured that public bathroom access is […]
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Hindsight is 20/20, but the question looms large: Why did the Associated Press start fact-checking Donald Trump and his cabinet appointees (such as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s recent comment on historical black colleges and universities and school choice) and did not fact check Obama or any of his cabinet secretaries? We checked the Associated Press’s […]
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As our editor Cliff Kincaid mentioned on a Bias Buzz podcast several weeks ago, President-Elect Donald Trump should consider putting online conservative media, such as Accuracy in Media, into the White House briefing room. Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary for George W. Bush, echoed similar sentiments in the Wall Street Journal: The Associated […]
Continue Reading5/2/2018 - Secret Service Prohibited Guns — Not the NRA — for VP Pence’s Speech to NRA Convention
1/26/2018 - AP Headline Mentions Las Vegas Shooting in Gun Show Headline
1/12/2018 - Associated Press Assists Mueller in Manafort Investigation
10/16/2017 - Trump-Tillerson Feud A Production of Mainstream Media
9/8/2017 - Associated Press Labels Illegal Immigrants ‘Undocumented Citizens’
4/15/2017 - Associated Press: Trump Travel Expenses May Have Been Overestimated
3/28/2017 - Liberal Media Continues Assault on North Carolina’s ‘Bathroom Bill’
3/1/2017 - Why does the Associated Press Fact Check Trump, Trump’s Cabinet but didn’t Fact Check Obama?
11/29/2016 - Former Bush White House Secretary: Trump could put Conservative Dot Com Media into Briefing Room
11/9/2016 - Associated Press Warns to Not Call Bill Clinton the ‘First Gentleman’
11/7/2016 - TEN Emails that Show Liberal Media Collusion with the Hillary Clinton Campaign
10/18/2016 - Associated Press, State Department & Clinton Campaign Worked on Messaging for Emails Dump
9/8/2016 - Liberal Media Unsure about Germany Election Upset in Merkel’s Home State
8/25/2016 - Associated Press Report: Half of State Department Visitors were Big Clinton Foundation Donors
8/25/2016 - CNN Headline Focuses on GOP’s Response to Associated Press Report on Clinton Foundation Donors
8/19/2016 - Associated Press Debunks Obama’s Claim that the Iran Deal Wasn’t a $400 Million Hostage Ransom Deal
7/24/2016 - Turkey Seized 2,250 Facilities in Crackdown after Coup Attempt
6/27/2016 - Hillary Clinton’s Official Calendar Left a Lot Out
6/7/2016 - Associated Press: Hillary Clinton has Won the Democratic Primary with Superdelegates
3/23/2016 - State Dept Won’t Answer Reporter’s Questions on Belgium Terrorist Attacks
3/20/2016 - Obama Denied a Record 77% of FOIA Requests
3/2/2016 - Delegate Count: Donald Trump in the Lead, Cruz 2nd and Rubio 3rd
3/2/2016 - Hillary Clinton On Track for the Nomination
12/1/2015 - After Blowback, White House to Send Personalized Reports of Refugee Resettlement to Governors
11/30/2015 - Hillary Clinton’s State Dept Calendar Released, Met with up to 100 Donors, Executives during Tenure
10/27/2015 - WATCH: Video of Raid on ISIS Prison Emerges
10/14/2015 - Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server was Vulnerable to Hackers
9/25/2015 - No More Climate Change “Deniers” or “Skeptics” at the Associated Press
9/8/2015 - Hillary Clinton: “What I Did Was Allowed,” She Claimed in AP Interview
9/8/2015 - Hillary Won’t Apologize for Secret Email Server
8/23/2015 - Obama’s Allies Suggest Israel Forged Iran Deal Documents Obtained by AP
8/9/2015 - Federal Judge tells State Dept to Turn Over E-mails to Associated Press after FOIA Request
7/31/2015 - WATCH: Reporter Makes Fun of the Iran Deal, Embarrasses State Dept Spokesperson
7/22/2015 - VIDEO: State Dept tries to Sell Lifting Arms Embargo on Iran as a Good Thing
6/15/2015 - Chinese Hackers may have gotten between 7 to 14 Million Files
6/12/2015 - VIDEO: Reporter Matt Lee asks Why FOIA Requests have Skyrocketed since Obama Took Office?
6/10/2015 - WATCH: State Dept won’t come forward on John Kerry’s Health
5/8/2015 - Associated Press Headlines Make Garland, Texas Shooters the Victims
3/14/2015 - National Archives: “We Live in Constant Fear” of Obama
2/5/2015 - Ex-US Army Soldier talks about Joining Kurdish Militia
2/4/2015 - AP Reporter Mocks State Dept. Jen Psaki over Lack of Transparency
1/8/2015 - Liberal News Media Scared of Airing Mohammed Cartoon
12/29/2014 - HuffPo to Drop AP in 2015, Build In-House News Service
12/16/2014 - AP’s Julie Pace:: “We’re Not Sure” What Clinton’s Message Is “and Why She’s Running for President” [Video]
12/10/2014 - FBI Director Doesn’t Rule Out Using Fake Reporter in the Future
12/6/2014 - Former AP Reporter accuses AP of hiring anti-Israel Reporters
5/29/2014 - AP’s Julie Pace: Obama West Point Speech “Odd” [Video]
4/1/2014 - AP’s Julie Pace: White House Recognizes that Running on Obamacare is “Political Suicide” [Video]
9/6/2013 - AP Reporter Questions Obama’s “Courageous move” [Video]
8/10/2013 - AP Issues Correction of Obama Quote [Video]
6/2/2013 - Associated Press pushes for no Gender Identity
5/31/2013 - Fox News: We never received DOJ subpoena records
5/27/2013 - Big Media Lobby for Immigration Bill
5/24/2013 - GOP eyes Sebelius Fundraising for Health Care
5/23/2013 - New York Times Dumps on Obama Administration for Threatening Press Freedom [Video]
5/21/2013 - AP says reporters afraid of DOJ monitoring
5/16/2013 - Obama fires acting tax chief with strings attached
5/16/2013 - Obama releases Benghazi e-mails same day as IRS chief resignation
5/16/2013 - Media Matters Denies Involvement in Its Own AP Talking Points
5/15/2013 - Obama Gives New York Times the Chills
5/15/2013 - NBC’s Lisa Myers: Hard to Imagine Obama Approved AP Probe
6/6/2012 - Obama’s Socialist Allies Defeated in Wisconsin
4/6/2012 - American Family Radio; AP head endorsing Obama?
2/10/2012 - Sky News Restricts Employee Tweets
12/30/2011 - The AP’s 2012 Playbook for Romney
11/4/2011 - The Associated Press’ New Guidance on “Retweeting” Creates Uproar
8/5/2011 - Media: Lowest Labor Force Participation Rate since 1984 Equals some “good news”
4/14/2011 - AP Gets Punk’d Over GE Tax Refund Story
