Accuracy in Media

Don and Brian discuss the Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton final presidential debate, moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, and how it could impact the rest of the presidential election cycle leading up to Election Day. They also tackled Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest and how it has affected the NFL’s ratings, Donna Brazile being […]

Considering that Wikileaks’ e-mails dumps are big news, it seems one-sided to leave that out of a 90-second recap of last night’s final presidential debate, doesn’t it?

Excusing partial-birth abortion is a thing, apparently, at NPR. This is from their fact-check from last night’s presidential debate: Very few of the millions of abortions performed each year involve dilation and extraction, which is called “partial-birth abortion” by opponents. These are abortions performed after 20 weeks. It would be extremely unusual, if it is […]

NPR fact-checked Trump’s statement on America’s heroin overdose problem, and he was right: The Drug Enforcement Administration says the threat posed by heroin in the United States has increased since 2007. Heroin is available in larger quantities, used by a larger number of people, and is causing an increasing number of overdose deaths. In 2014, […]

NPR’s fact-checking had caveats, such as when Donald Trump railed against Chicago’s strict gun laws, NPR agreed that Trump was right. However, they added that the illegal guns flow in from the neighboring state of Indiana. Trump was correct about the strict gun laws in Chicago and blaming Indiana for guns is not an accurate […]

Isn’t that unusual to cite an organization’s own internal numbers and use that as the sole source? That’s what NPR did during last night’s presidential debate surrounding Planned Parenthood and the abortion topic: According to Planned Parenthood’s own numbers, about 9 percent of its services are cancer screenings. An additional 42 percent of its services […]

This from their fact-check of last night’s final presidential debate, regarding Donald Trump’s pro-life statements: This has been a major reason many evangelicals and other social conservatives have cited for supporting Trump, despite the misgivings many express about his character, language and temperament. Trump has set up an advisory council of anti-abortion-rights groups in an apparent […]

NBC News and SurveyMonkey conducted an online poll of likely voters, and Hillary Clinton appeared to win the poll. However, this result could be disputed since online polls are not too reliable. Still, the gap narrowed between Clinton’s margin of victory from the first debate (31 points) to 10 points after the second debate.

Alex Nitzberg interviews author Cheryl Chumley and they discuss the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, who appeared to win, and the best parts of the debate.

In analyzing ABC News, CBS News and CNN’s fact-checks of the second presidential debate, we found the following: The liberal media said there were ZERO ‘false’ claims by Hillary Clinton 81% of the statements that were fact-checked were from Trump 19% of the fact-checked statements were Hillary Clinton’s ABC News had 16 total fact-checks, 14 […]