Accuracy in Media

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WASHINGTON — Instead on focusing on the country’s $16 trillion debt, surging unemployment, a stagnant economy and global conflicts, President Barack Obama gave a speech last Friday on the Trayvon Martin case. News outlets like Reuters report that Obama’s most important quote was that Martin “could have been me, 35 years ago”. He also disparaged […]

The Huffington Post has perfected the smear technique of expressing shock and anger at things that conservatives say which make complete sense and are factually based. “Hannity’s Awful Reaction To Obama’s Trayvon Martin Comments” was the headline over Fox News host Sean Hannity’s reaction to President Obama comparing himself to Trayvon Martin. Hannity said he […]

MSNBC, which devoted a large chunk of airtime to covering the George Zimmerman trial, got crushed Saturday night as the network finished a distant fourth place in the ratings, based on preliminary figures released today. During the 10-11 p.m. hour, when the verdict was released, Fox News had 3,682,000 total viewers, followed by CNN with […]

WASHINGTON — The verdict in one of the most scrutinized court cases in recent memory, where George Zimmerman was on trial for killing black teenager Trayvon Martin, came late Saturday night. The six-member jury, which was composed of all women, ruled that Zimmerman was not guilty of committing second-degree murder. Other additional charges were also […]

After the not-guilty verdict was handed down, George Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara strongly criticized the media’s role in getting his client charged in the case.  He compared the media to “mad scientists” who had turned Zimmerman into a “monster.” He said the media “took a story that was fed to you and you ran with […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen not to interfere in the trial of neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who killed a black teenager named Trayvon Martin. Obama politicized the issue as racism at work after he said that if he had a son, he’d look like Trayvon Martin. Obama has two daughters but […]

An important revelation from author Edward Klein is the name of the Obama ally who allegedly offered a $150,000 bribe to Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright to be quiet until after the 2008 election. Klein named him as Dr. Eric Whitaker, executive vice president and associate dean at the University of Chicago Medical Center. A close […]

Last night on MSNBC’s Hardball, during a segment on the media coverage of the Trayvon Martin case, MSNBC contributor and Washington Post editorial board member Jonathan Capehart said that his faith in the justice system—which was suffering—has been restored now that Florida has decided to prosecute George Zimmerman. Matthews: But how do we get to […]

From American Family Radio: A media analyst is calling NBC’s apology for its edit of a 9-1-1 call to convey George Zimmerman as a racist in the Trayvon Martin shooting case “weak.” The network issued a statement following an internal investigation into an edit that was made to the conversation Zimmerman had with a police dispatcher the night he […]