Accuracy in Media

A new CNN/ORC international poll on what people believe happened to the missing Malaysian Air flight MH370, took an odd twist, by including space aliens as an option: Fewer Americans — about 42% — think hijackers may have been involved, while 9% believe that space aliens or beings from another dimension were involved. Other options […]

MSNBC, which at one time hoped to overtake Fox News in the ratings, continued to stumble after hitting some of its lowest ratings in seven years. It also saw its much ballyhooed morning show, Morning Joe, drop to third place behind CNN’s New Day. April was the second straight month that New Day beat Morning Joe in […]

CNN news anchor Don Lemon, filling in as a guest host on ABC’s The View on Monday, defended the network’s wall-to-wall coverage of the missing Malaysian Air flight MH370, saying that it wasn’t just about ratings. The View co-host Barbara Walters observed that CNN has covered flight MH370 more than they covered the Boston Marathon bombings, […]

Fox News continues to steamroll the competition, with its 49th consecutive week and 147th consecutive month as the number one cable news network in both total day and primetime, during the first quarter of 2014. Compared to the first quarter of 2013, Fox News was up 3% in total viewers and 5% in the demo […]

CNN, which has devoted most of its recent airtime to coverage of the disappearance of Malaysian Air flight MH370, is keeping its low-rated Crossfire program on temporary hiatus, according to the Erik Wemple Blog. Crossfire, whose time slot was carved out of Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room program last fall, has given back that time slot […]

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly achieved a rare ratings feat on Wednesday when they both managed to attract more than 500,000 viewers in the key demo (18 – 49 year-olds), easily outdistancing CNN and MSNBC. O’Reilly and Kelly, whose shows air back-to-back, averaged 537,000 and 501,000 viewers respectively in their timeslots, beating CNN’s […]