Accuracy in Media

MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry have parted company after the race-baiting host fired off an angry email about her show being pre-empted over the last two weeks. Harris-Perry had apparently been complaining about the pre-emptions with MSNBC brass. But her refusal to appear on her show on Saturday, coupled with an email she sent to her […]

Former MSNBC host Ed Schultz, who was fired last year after posting consistently low ratings, is returning to cable television with a new show, “The News with Ed Schultz,” on Russian propaganda network RT America. Schultz’s show will “focus on exploring issues that most affect working Americans, particularly within the context of the upcoming U.S. […]

According to Mediaite’s Joe Concha, NBC News president Andy Lack is asserting control and plans to make some major changes in MSNBC’s daytime programming. The goal is to try and stem the ratings slide the network has been experiencing for the last three years. MSNBC will cancel three programs, The Cycle, Now with Alex Wagner and The […]

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who is an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, jabbed his colleague Ed Schlutz for “jumping up and down” for Bernie Sanders, who is challenging Hillary for the Democratic Party nomination: Bernie got a big crowd out there in Denver. Ed Schultz was jumping up and down about it tonight. Matthews was […]

Ed Schultz tells an on-air guest that ObamaCare means he’s not being denied insurance, but that he’s been asked to “pay a little more, that’s all.” Hat tip to Washington Free Beacon for the video.

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz did a little Obama administration PR on Wednesday night when he claimed that the government’s problematic website, healthcare.gov, is fixed. His advice to the Democrats is to tell people, “It works:” Now I’ve spoken with a couple of Congressional Democrats in recent days. And they have asked me, you know, what do […]

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz reacted to the release of the enrollment numbers for Obamacare by trying to put a positive spin on the dismal numbers. After criticizing Bill Clinton for saying that Obama should let people keep their health plans, Schultz read the enrollment numbers off a monitor: Holy smokes, we’re 100 percent higher […]

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz has had it with all the negative press on the Obamacare rollout, and has determined that the real problem is the mainstream media and their desire to see Obamacare fail: The mainstream media, I believe, wants Obamacare to fail. They look for every negative number they could find. They’re afraid to do […]

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz offered his opinion of the launch of the Obamacare health care exchanges this week, saying that “there are no glitches,” and blaming reports of problems on Fox News Channel and the Republican Party: There are no glitches! There are no glitches! If you opened up a restaurant and you couldn’t […]

In an interview with The New Yorker magazine published on Monday, MSNBC primetime host Chris Hayes admitted that his ratings have been “bad.” Hayes told Kelefa Sanneh, who wrote the article, that “obviously, the numbers are bad right now”—but warned against making any drastic changes based on what has worked on any given night. Up […]