Accuracy in Media

Former Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock, who resigned from the paper in mid-April, announced on Twitter that she has been hired to blog for U.S. News & World Report. She will be the lead writer for the Washington Whispers blog which was previously written by Paul Bedard, who is now with The Washington Examiner. Flock […]

Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton took the newspaper to task on Sunday for not giving the recently resigned blogger Elizabeth Flock more training and support for her job. Flock resigned on April 13 after it came to light that she had plagiarized parts of a Discovery News article on life on Mars in her blog […]

Washington Post blogPost writer, Elizabeth Flock, resigned from the newspaper on Friday after it was discovered that she used large portions of a story by Discovery News in a recent post. Last December Flock had erroneously reported that Mitt Romney’s campaign was using a slogan linked to the KKK, for which the Post had to issue a correction. So […]

Just over two weeks ago Chris Matthews apologized on his Hardball program for an earlier report on MSNBC that erroneously linked a slogan in a Mitt Romney video to the KKK. That report was rife with mistakes and relied heavily on information provided by the left-wing blog, AmericaBlog. But MSNBC wasn’t the only news organization […]