Accuracy in Media

Sinclair Broadcasting struck back Tuesday against the “concern” mainstream media expressed over a script sent to its local news stations last week. The broadcaster posted a video to the websites of its local stations that, according to one of those concerned media outlets, the Washington Post, “challenges CNN’s reporting on Sinclair’s controversial promos – a script, […]

CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter pointed out the latest CNN anti-Trump chyron (written words on the TV screen) on Twitter, and a Townhall columnist took CNN and Stelter to task: Not only is the network unapologetic about its cheerleading for Hillary Clinton while demeaning Trump, but some of the anchors are even bragging about […]

In analyzing the media environment in 2016, and what’s ahead in 2017, CNN senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward appeared on Reliable Sources and said that 2016 was a “humbling year” for reporters. She said that the public’s hatred towards the media is greater than at any time in her career. “There’s a deep antipathy towards mainstream […]

CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker is the latest media executive to chime in on how his company will cover the Trump administration, telling attendees at a dinner on Tuesday for the Committee to Protect Journalists that they plan on holding the new administration’s “feet to the fire,” according to CNN’s Brian Stelter: “We will hold the […]

Wow: CNN media reporter Brian Stelter noted Friday that President Obama contradicted himself with his solemn declaration on The Tonight Show that the presidency is not like a reality show. Obama, after performing in one of Jimmy Fallon’s light-hearted “Slow Jams” of the news, grew stern in his interview. On a show that features segments […]

Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, whose career at the network came to an end after he erroneously reported on President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard, stood firm in an interview with CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter on Sunday in his claim that he was correct: We reported the […]

MSNBC’s ratings, which have been in a steady decline for more than a year, was the subject of discussion on CNN’s Reliable Sources with former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather. Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter noted that while MSNBC received a ratings bump last week because of the midterm […]

Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who is adapting to his new role as a CNN contributor, told Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter that the President doesn’t watch cable news, but instead is a “voracious” reader of the printed word: STELTER: Is it true the President doesn’t watch any cable news? CARNEY: It is […]

In his first Sunday show interview, new White House press secretary Josh Earnest told CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter that CNN is the network he turns to for news (after ESPN): Stelter: How about television? When you turn on the TV which network do you turn to first? Earnest: …If it’s for work, I […]

Last week on CNN’s Reliable Sources, former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson created a bit of a firestorm in the media when she implied that left-wing media watchdog group Media Matters targeted her after she started to expose the scandals in the Obama administration. That accusation was denied by Media Matters founder David Brock, who on […]