Accuracy in Media

The New York Times Washington D.C. bureau has thrown down the gauntlet to its brethren in the newspaper business by hiring its first-ever fact-checker. “Given how much copy we’re moving these days, given how intense the atmosphere is, we’re just doubling down on making sure everything is as airtight as it can be,” said Peter […]

The Washington Post’s latest fact check defends Obamacare and Obama’s legacy against President Donald Trump’s anti-Obamacare rhetoric. Here are examples of the article’s defense of the health care law: Insurers didn’t flee and left Americans uninsured 2 million Americans did not drop out of the Obamacare exchanges Premiums are not soaring However, it is known […]

The Washington Post Fact Checker took Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to task for claiming that FBI Director James Comey said that her answers about her private email server and the sending of classified materials were “truthful.” “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told […]

This was a ludicrous claim by Obama to make, asserting that teenagers can get a Glock handgun easier than a book. By the way, the rating scale is one to four Pinocchios and Fact Checker gave him three Pinocchios

The Washington Post Fact Checker will surely earn the enmity of liberals after backing up Sen. Marco Rubio’s recent claim that gun laws wouldn’t have prevented the recent mass shootings and earning a rare Gepetto. “None of the major shootings that have occurred in this country over the last few months or years that have […]

Good take by T. Becket Adams of the Washington Examiner. Not one professional media “fact-checker” will follow up on Obama’s claim that there is less war today than during the Cold War. Good job, coddling liberal mainstream media.

The Washington Post narrative surrounding the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups is that it began as a scandal involving low-level employees at a Cincinnati office, the “Determinations Unit,” a natural outgrowth of an increase in political activity by these groups. This belies other reporting by the Post’s Fact-Checker, which indicates that there was little growth […]

Glenn Kessler, aka The Washington Post Fact Checker, informed readers that even though the Obama campaign had misinterpreted a recent Washington Post story on Bain Capital and outsourcing, he would not award any Pinocchios (his rating system for accuracy) to the Post for the actual story, since it was the interpretation of the Post story, and […]