Accuracy in Media

When he retired from the Fox Business Network, veteran broadcast journalist John Stossel reminisced with Reason magazine editor Katherine Mangu-Ward about, among other things, the travails of bringing libertarian news to a Left-leaning network. His experiences at ABC’s 20/20 give us some idea of the depth and extent of news media bias: “So producers quit […]

Fox Business Network has raised the bar for candidates to qualify for the next GOP debate in January, and only those who place in the top six nationally, or top five in Iowa or New Hampshire based on polls recognized by Fox News, will qualify for the main stage. The others will be relegated to the […]

Fox News suspended contributors Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash for two weeks after they used swear words on the air when referring to President Obama. Peters, who is a military analyst for the network, appeared on Stuart Varney’s Fox Business Network show to talk about Obama’s Oval Office speech on Sunday night, when he went […]

Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus, who called the last GOP presidential primary debate, hosted by CNBC, a “crap sandwich,” was very pleased with last night’s debate, which was hosted by the Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal. In a statement issued after the debate, Priebus said, “Debates need to focus on the issues, and […]

Big media corporations are lobbying for passage of the Gang of Eight’s 844-page immigration bill, S. 744. Critics call it amnesty. In addition to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (the parent of Fox News), the companies include:  Walt Disney Co. (owns ABC News) Hearst Corp. (owns 15 daily newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, […]

Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene, a black feminist, says on her Twitter page that “love can build a bridge.” But racism, not love, was on display last Thursday when she called conservative Tucker Carlson a “bow-tying white boy.” Greene, a Democratic Party operative who was the national director of Project Vote, a group with close […]