Accuracy in Media

WASHINGTON — You literally cannot make this up. Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former New York governor, is making a run to be the state’s newest comptroller. One of his opponents? His alleged former madam, Kristin Davis. Reuters reports that Spitzer, who resigned as governor five years ago after a prostitution scandal, is trying to re-enter […]

Current TV, which is best known for its association with Al Gore, announced on Friday that its owners are considering putting it up for sale. According to reports in the New York Post and Reuters, Current CEO Joel Hyatt issued a statement about a potential sale. “Current has been approached many times by media companies […]

The White House and the mainstream media have been making a big deal out of a recent MarketWatch column by Rex Nutting, who said that one of the biggest lies about President Obama is that he is a reckless spender. According to Nutting, federal spending under Obama is rising at the slowest pace in over […]

It’s been nearly a month since former New York governor Eliot Spitzer took over for Keith Olbermann on Al Gore’s Current TV, and while he’s apparently not concerned about his ratings, he says his mom is happy. Capital New York took part in a conference call on Tuesday in which Spitzer explained that his new […]

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who made his debut Friday night on Current TV after the firing of Keith Olbermann, failed to capture viewer interest as his ratings plunged from what Olbermann had been attracting on the network. Spitzer drew just 47,000 total viewers, with a paltry 10,000 in the key A25-54 demo, down […]

Current TV, which hired Keith Olbermann with great fanfare last year after his firing by MSNBC, decided on Friday that they too had had enough of the volatile anchor and sent him into the ranks of the unemployed. The network, which was co-founded by Al Gore, thought that they had scored a major coup when […]

CNN, which has struggled for years to field a competitive program in the 8 p.m. prime time slot, has managed to dig itself a deeper hole with the recent move of Anderson Cooper 360 into the coveted slot. The initial ratings for Cooper’s program were actually worse than that of  the Eliot Spitzer ratings-laggard, In the Arena, […]

Cenk Uygur’s days as an MSNBC host appear to be numbered as the network is reportedly eager to replace him with Al Sharpton. Sharpton has been filling in for Uygur for the past three weeks and the ratings have increased enough during this time that the network is ready to make the switch. Since Uygur […]

CNN today removed one of the last vestiges of former CNN president Jonathan Klein with the canceling today of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s show, “In the Arena,” after only nine months on the air. Spitzer, who was paired last year by Klein with conservative columnist Kathleen Parker in a show that failed both in terms of on-screen […]

Eliot Spitzer, who stepped down as the governor of New York in 2008 after it was a revealed he was a customer of a prostitution ring, managed to avoid any mention of  fellow former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “love child” sex scandal on his television show this week. According to Dylan Stableford of The Wrap, Spitzer […]