Accuracy in Media

Eric Reid, an NFL safety, joined former teammate Colin Kaepernick in suing the league for collusion. Reid, and Kaepernick in his own lawsuit, allege that NFL owners colluded not to hire Reid or Kaepernick because they knelt in protest during the national anthem on the grounds that it would be “bad business” for the league and […]

As NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk tackles NFL news, it has, like many sports journalists, taken the side of national-anthem-protesting athletes such as Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid. Both athletes kneeled during the playing of the U.S. national anthem and were teammates in San Francisco, Calif. Both athletes remain unsigned by professional teams. Pro Football […]

GQ named Colin Kaepernick its citizen of the year this week, saying he had transformed himself from “a rippling superhero of a quarterback on the rise” to a “man who became the movement.” He no longer was simply an athlete: “A simple act – kneeling during the national anthem – changed everything. It cost him his […]

GQ editors chose unemployed, divisive former NFL athlete Colin Kaepernick as 2017’s Citizen of the Year for his protests during the national anthem, which sparked social media outcry and criticism of the league and Kaepernick’s actions. Instead of focusing on the divisive nature of Kaepernick’s protests, how about a more unifying choice for Citizen of […]

GQ, the magazine that employs anti-Trump pundit Keith Olbermann, chose Colin Kaepernick, the outspoken national-anthem-protesting football player as its Citizen of the Year. GQ editors said the following about Kaepernick: Much has changed in the four years since Colin Kaepernick was last on the cover of GQ. Back then he was a rippling superhero of a […]

Colin Kaepernick, the football player that gained fame for protesting the national anthem, recently donated $25,000 to the organization Assata’s Daughters. The organization is named for a convicted killer of police officers who fled to Cuba after killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973. The donation is allegedly going to the organization to fund […]

Bleacher Report, a sports website owned by the parent company of CNN, TNT and TBS, is not sticking to sports. Sportswriter Mike Tanier lamented how recent anti-Trump NFL protests during the playing of the American national anthem are detracting from Colin Kaepernick’s original protest in a recent article. Kaepernick, a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, kneeled or […]

Sports journalists, political activism and speculation go hand-in-hand in today’s age of social media. There is no better example of this than the case of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. who protested the American national anthem last season and made statements on policing and racial tensions in America. His protests upset conservatives, military veterans and […]

ESPN continued its descent into what one Twitter user called MSNBC with footballs when Jemele Hill, a co-host for one of the network’s shows, made her feelings about the president clear. “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists,” Hill tweeted.   The pushback came immediately. “Said the […]

Episode 86. In this week’s episode, Don and Brian analyze President Trump’s Phoenix, Az rally, Steve Bannon’s White House departure, ESPN’s Robert Lee facepalm, Trump’s Afghanistan 180, Hillary Clinton being “creeped out” by Trump and more. Please SUBSCRIBE on iTunes. SoundCloud audio is below.