Accuracy in Media

The Washington Post has been collecting data for two years about how many people have been killed in encounters with law enforcement ever since the Michael Brown-Officer Darren Wilson incident that made national headlines. The Post did not mention how the oft-used ‘hands up don’t shoot’ narrative has been debunked, but the recent update admitted […]

Fox News host Megyn Kelly sparred with black activist and noted race-baiter Al Sharpton on Wednesday about the Department of Justice’s report on the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson. Kelly interviewed Sharpton at his National Action Network convention in New York City: Kelly: Let me take you back to Ferguson, Missouri and the case there against […]

The DOJ report said that Wilson acted in self-defense in shooting Michael Brown, and even dispelled the rumor that Michael Brown had his hands up before being shot. That rumor had been proven false before, but this is another instance of media hype.

WASHINGTON — In a terrible journalistic move, the liberal newspaper The New York Times published the home address of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson is at the center of the controversy over the fatal shooting of a black teenager named Michael Brown. A grand jury did not indict him on charges, which led to […]