Accuracy in Media

The New York Times will have to fend off a lawsuit from Sarah Palin, a former vice presidential candidate, over their publishing of an accusation that a PAC affiliated with her eventually inspired the shooting of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The New York Times would not be in trouble if they stuck to the facts and […]

WASHINGTON — Former Arizona congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, went to New York to push for background checks at gun shows. She even toured a gun show while she was there and wanted to require background checks for buyers. Reuters reported that Giffords and her husband, retired U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly, want background checks for buyers at gun […]

A new CBS poll shows that nearly six in ten Americans do not believe that political rhetoric was to blame for the shootings in Tucson that critically wounded a U.S. Congressman and left six other people dead. From CBS News Overall, 57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with […]

The liberal mainstream media may have jumped all over Sarah Palin for her use of crosshairs in targeting certain Democratic congressional districts last year including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, but they lost one of their own when Barbara Walters refused to join the feeding frenzy. Even Whoopi Goldberg pointed out that using crosshairs wasn’t […]