Accuracy in Media

On Tuesday, MSNBC turned to Nick Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, to bolster its claim that Robert Mueller was investigating whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Wikileaks in the release of the Democratic Party emails. Akerman unspooled his theory on the case, which turns on the fact that President Trump goaded reporters to look into […]

Is this election really rigged? Well, the Wikileaks e-mails have exposed how the liberal media establishment has worked almost hand-in-hand with the Hillary Clinton campaign. Here are ten examples of this collusion: Associated Press reporter said he could be convinced to “steer away” from reporting on the e-mails scandal surrounding the Hillary Clinton campaign. The […]

Christopher Hayes of MSNBC tweeted the following after the bombings in New Jersey and New York City…it doesn’t read well in a knee-jerk-reaction media circus: We’re also very very lucky that the attackers tried to use explosives rather than guns. — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 19, 2016 To his credit, he didn’t delete the tweet […]

In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Beast, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack admitted that MSNBC’s devotion to liberal programming was a failure, and that if the network hadn’t switched to covering more breaking news it “would have been clobbered.” “Had we not made this turn to breaking news with seriousness of purpose, in these […]

Oh, the poster child for the Islamophobic “no-fly” list policy is now arrested by Turkish authorities for being a part of a terrorist cell: A man who in 2013 became the face of a movement to portray the U.S. government’s no-fly list as discriminatory against Muslims was arrested earlier this month along with members of his family […]

Former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who was suspended by the network for lying on the air multiple times, is now set to return to sister network MSNBC on September 22, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Williams will anchor live breaking news, but has been given no regular slot in the primetime lineup as […]

Keith Olbermann’s second act with ESPN may be coming to an end this month, but rumors are now circulating that the loudmouth liberal may be reunited with MSNBC, where he worked from 2003 to 2011. According to Mediaite, MSNBC has scheduled a Town Hall meeting with NBC News president Andy Lack to discuss the network’s […]

MSNBC host Chris Hayes apologized on his show Thursday night to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly over a segment  on the Confederate flag on Tuesday in which he told viewers, “Bill O’Reilly said it represents the bravery of Confederates who fought in the Civil War” lumping him in with  “predictable sources” on the right who […]

MSNBC’s ratings took another nosedive in the first quarter of 2015, with total daytime viewership down 39 percent and primetime down 45 percent in the key demo compared to the same period a year ago. This represented MSNBC’s lowest quarterly demo viewership in both categories since the second quarter of 2005, and the lowest quarterly […]

MSNBC suffered yet another month of poor ratings in February, as Morning Joe trailed CNN’s New Day for the fifth straight month and hit a seven year low in the key demo. The network’s daytime total viewership was down 43% from last February as the network finished in third place behind CNN in both total […]