Accuracy in Media

In a Huffington Post op-ed Friday, Washington Post travel writer Frederick Kunkle accused the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, of putting his charity efforts ahead of his employees. But as Bezos, whose worth now exceeds $80 billion, loosens his pockets, it’s important to put his charitable giving — and the philanthropy of the super-rich — into perspective: Many people […]

On Inauguration Day back in January, fascists from the alt-left group Antifa burned a limousine in front of The Washington Post newsroom. They might want to be more careful next time so as not to endanger their coworkers. Antifa and The Washington Post are on the same team. Amazon.com, which is owned by the same […]

Episode 37. How the liberal media blew the election,  Larry Sabato’s broken crystal ball, Megyn Kelly and opening up the White House Press Corps to conservative bloggers and other media.

The Washington Post shocked the liberal world by firing liberal columnist Harold Meyerson—not  over ideology, but because he failed to attract enough readers for the Post to justify his continued employment. Editorial page editor Fred Hiatt explained to Politico the rationale for firing Meyerson: The Post opinion section takes pride in publishing a wide range of views, […]

Former New York City mayor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg apparently tried to buy The New York Times, according to New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman: Near the end of Bloomberg’s time as mayor, he told Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. that he was interested in buying the Times, according to a source with direct knowledge of […]

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, is fairly confident that despite difficult conditions in the newspaper industry, the Times will survive: I’m actually not that worried about the future of The New York Times. If you produce a news product that is worthwhile and worth saving, which is my goal, I think we’ll […]

The Washington Post, which is now owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced today that effective October 1st, it is replacing Publisher Katharine Weymouth with Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., a former Reagan administration official who was part of the founding leadership team of Politico. Weymouth’s departure brings to a close the more than eight decade […]

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of The New York Times Company and the paper’s publisher, said last week that while last years’ sale of The Washington Post was a “shock out of the blue” and tough for him personally, the Times is not for sale. Sulzberger made his remarks during a discussion of the paper’s […]

In the first editorial move since Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, the paper announced today that it has hired MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to write a monthly column. Editorial page editor Fred Hiatt made the announcement via a memo to the staff: We are delighted to announce that Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel […]

WASHINGTON — EBay founder Pierre Omidyar is the latest tech giant to get involved in journalism and news reporting and plans to build a grassroots mass media organization. Reuters reported that Omidyar hired away Glenn Greenwald of the British newspaper The Guardian, of NSA and Edward Snowden fame. He is following the lead of Amazon […]