Accuracy in Media

Episode 29.  This week we discuss the movement away from celebrating Columbus Day, Trump’s second debate performance, biased media debate fact checking, Clinton campaign emails mocking Catholics, Paul Ryan under fire and more.

Below is a portion of a great piece at the National Review on why Christopher Columbus is important to American history and idea of American exceptionalism: One man, two narratives: 1. Born to a working-class wool weaver in the port city of Genoa, Italy, Cristoforo Colombo apprenticed as a sailor and went to sea as […]

Boston and Cleveland have proposed a change to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ from ‘Columbus Day’, while Cincinnati rejected the name change. Other cities, such as Phoenix, Seattle, Cambridge (Massachusetts), and Belfast (Maine), have already made the politically-correct change. Photo by edenpictures

It’s an interesting column on why a one-size-fits-all name should be offensive to Native Americans and indigenous people for putting their entire people in a general category, without giving context on their accomplishments: The emptiness of the gesture is there right in the name of the day: It’s not Tecumseh Day or Ira Hayes Day […]

Universities and others have called for the renaming or removal of Columbus Day as a federally-recognized holiday, saying it should be called ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ instead.