Accuracy in Media

A feature piece at the top of NBC News’ homepage didn’t refer to Hillary Clinton’s illness, whether it was pneumonia, heat exhaustion or whatever it may be. Instead, the article’s headline read, “Obama steps in to stump for an embattled Clinton“.

ABC News, CBS News and NBC News were fine with the Clinton campaign doctor’s prognosis that Clinton did have pneumonia over the past weekend and will be recovering. The media has no other questions about how severe the pneumonia is, and whether she does have other underlying conditions, given that her husband Bill accidentally said […]

Cue damage control by the Clinton campaign: Hillary Clinton said she didn’t disclose that she had pneumonia last week because she “didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal,” she said in an interview Monday night… Clinton previously attributed a cough she had to allergies, but she was diagnosed Friday with pneumonia, […]

Sounds like Bill Clinton wants the liberal media to pipe down about Hillary Clinton’s health, where she stumbled while leaving a 9-11 ceremony this past Sunday and disappeared from the campaign trail press without notification: “I have talked to her doctor, who is extremely competent and who has been in touch with all the people who […]

The liberal media bought the Clinton campaign narrative that she was suffering from allergies last week, where there was video of her struggling to finish a speech while suffering from a coughing fit. She later said it was because she was allergic to Trump, and her campaign said allergies were to blame. But now, in […]

The coughing fit wasn’t enough for the liberal media, but when Clinton stumbled and wobbled before entering a van with the Secret Service surrounding her, that convinced the media to cover her potential health issues: ABC News constructed a timeline of the health scare, entitled, “Hillary Clinton’s medical incident raises questions of who knew what […]

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said they will release more medical information about Hillary Clinton after their transparency debacle this weekend, where Hillary Clinton wobbled and stumbled upon leaving a 9-11 ceremony and disappeared from the press without a timely explanation: Fallon assured on Monday that the campaign would soon release additional records and reminded […]

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell said Monday on the Today show that the secrecy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s diagnosis of pneumonia has made the issue of her health a much bigger issue than it previously was. Clinton was forced to leave a September 11 memorial event in New York City after becoming “overheated,” according to her campaign. Video […]

The opening paragraph in a Washington Post article on the secrecy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s health incident during a 9/11 ceremony focused on…the conservative media and their “hysterical” coverage of her health the past month. Sound fair to you? Conservative media coverage of Hillary Clinton’s health has been borderline hysterical. Okay, not even borderline — just plain […]

Chris Cillizza of The Fix wrote a column just six days ago entitled, “Can we just stop talking about Hillary Clinton’s health now?” In that column, Cillizza criticized Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report on focusing too much on Clinton’s recent coughing fit on Labor Day. But after this weekend’s health incident, where Hillary Clinton stumbled as […]