Accuracy in Media

CNN’s Jim Acosta, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s handling of the press, set himself up for ridicule after tweeting his response to Trump’s tweet featuring  him body slamming CNN. #FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017 Isn't pro wrestling fake? — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 2, […]

Per a new study, journalists have a poor diet and consume too many alcoholic drinks (the following is excerpted from the study): “Less than 5% of journalists drank enough water (recommended at approximately 8 glasses a day, or 500ml for every 15kg of body weight). “On average journalists drank around 3 glasses of water a […]

Journalists are not exactly neutral with the Trump administration, but it is a two-way street. A Communications@Syracuse blog post recently asked several D.C.-based journalists, editors and producers on their thoughts on the Trump administration’s relationship with the press. Much of the feedback focused on how the Trump administration has been disorganized and how they have declared […]

Nate Silver, the statistician who correctly predicted the 2012 electoral results, wrote an interesting and insightful piece entitled, “There Really Was a Liberal Media Bubble,” at his website FiveThirtyEight. As the headline suggests, the topic was the liberal media bias in the 2016 election cycle. Silver pointed out, among several, how groupthink affected the media’s […]

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough assailed the proliferation of fake news and said that journalists need to do their job if they are serious about putting a stop to it. Scarborough cited an article in The Federalist listing 16 fake news stories that the media have published or broadcast since Trump won the election: “We’ve […]

Will Rahn wrote a scathing column on how smug the liberal media was before the shocking presidential election victory by Republican nominee Donald Trump: The mood in the Washington press corps is bleak, and deservedly so. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly […]

It didn’t appear that the local police secured the Orlando shooter’s apartment, where several items were touched by reporters as they filmed the premises.

Wow: An Egyptian court has recommended the death sentence against six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. A verdict on Morsi, ousted by the military in 2013, and four other defendants in the […]

A great op-ed by the New York Post’s John Podhoretz on how Ben Rhodes, a former Obama speechwriter-turned-foreign-policy-advisor, fed reporters propaganda about the Iran deal. Rhodes drips with contempt for almost everyone but his boss. He consigns all those who do not share every particular of the Obama-Rhodes foreign-policy perspective to a gelatinous mass called “The […]

Not a single reporter out of 72 members of the press pool are registered Republicans. Of those, 25% are Democrats, 13% are not affiliated with either party and 60% are not registered to vote. Photo by US Department of State