Accuracy in Media

WASHINGTON — The surviving Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, could face the death penalty for his heinous act of terrorism that killed 3 people and wounded and maimed 264 others last year. Reuters reported that embattled U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Tsarnaev. Dzhokhar and his older […]

The Boston bombings last week created a surge in cable-news viewing. While CNN saw its best ratings in quite some time, the real winner was the Fox News Channel, which surged to the top of the ratings, well ahead of its competitors. According to Nielsen, Fox News averaged nearly 3-million viewers in primetime, with a […]

Less than a week after MSNBC contributor Joy Reid said that George Bush essentially disappeared after 9/11, CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger reinforced that notion on Sunday when she said that President Obama ‘s reaction following the Boston bombings showed that he “learned from Bush’s mistake after 9/11.” Borger was appearing on Chris Matthews’ […]

While most of the country watched in horror yesterday as rescue workers tried to help the victims of the bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof fired off a tweet to suggest that Senate Republicans are at least partially responsible because they have blocked the confirmation of […]