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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]