Accuracy in Media

As of Monday night, NBC News did not have an article on the network’s firing of contributor Mark Halperin, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several women at his former employer ABC. Halperin’s contract has been terminated, per CNN, but NBC News did not acknowledge it on their website.

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough and contributor Mark Halperin ripped The New York Times for its post-election headline that focused on the disappointment of liberals at Trump’s victory, rather than the victory itself. Both Scarborough and Halperin said that while they “love The New York Times,” they couldn’t understand why the paper chose to run […]

MSNBC’s Morning Joe panelist Mark Halperin blasted FBI Director James Comey for acting as if he were an “arm” of the Clinton campaign by releasing the agency’s notes on their interview with Hillary Clinton on the Friday before Labor Day. Neither host Joe Scarborough nor Halperin had any kind words to say about Comey’s handling […]

Mark Halperin has a point.

MSNBC, which has been struggling in the ratings for the last several years, announced today that starting in January they will air episodes of Bloomberg TV’s With All Due Respect. The show will continue to air in its 5 p.m. time slot on Bloomberg TV, and then will be repeated by MSNBC at 6 p.m. […]

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough gave the show’s panel an education on liberal media bias on Monday, decrying the lack of objectivity on the major broadcast networks’ Sunday morning programs. Scarborough stated that Walter Cronkite and Tim Russert, who were liberals, and Tom Brokaw, who he loves and respects, have probably never voted in a […]

Bloomberg Politics managing editor Mark Halperin criticized Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her handling of the Democratic debates, calling it a “disgrace” and an unprecedented abuse of power by a national political party chair: In my career I cannot think of another more obvious abuse of power by a national chair of […]

Both Mika and Mark were stumped by Charles’ questions on what they would specifically propose to try to stop school shootings.

Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect co-hosts John Heilemann and Mark Halperin mocked Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday for announcing their “ham-handed” plan to show Hillary as caring, humorous and spontaneous—qualities that she has clearly been lacking and something that Halperin and Heilemann, among others, in the media aren’t sure she can pull off: […]

Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin, who is in Des Moines covering the Iowa State Fair, said that many Democrats gasped when Hillary Clinton tried to laugh off her email scandal with a Snapchat joke. He said that despite the fact that Clinton has said regular voters don’t talk to her about it, he has heard from fair-goers […]