Accuracy in Media

WASHINGTON — MSNBC tweeted an offensive and insensitive tweet surrounding a Cheerios ad, which led to significant backlash from conservatives and Republicans on Twitter. Reuters reported that the Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus accepted a formal apology from MSNBC President Phil Griffin. Here’s the offensive tweet: Griffin said the following, via a public statement […]

MSNBC president Phil Griffin vigorously defended his network’s handling of recent controversies surrounding its anchors, saying they were “transparent” in how they dealt with the situations. He also took a potshot at Fox News and CNN in an interview that was published Wednesday in The Hollywood Reporter. ‘We handled them,’ Griffin said. ‘We were transparent. That […]

MSNBC, which has been reeling from recent statements made by its hosts, has apparently decided that the network can’t risk any more embarrassing incidents. To that end, they are putting an executive in charge of reviewing scripts before they air, according to Eliana Johnson in National Review Online: It now has an executive reviewing scripts before […]

Martin Bashir, one of the most left-wing hosts on MSNBC, is apparently not liberal enough for Esquire’s Charles Pierce, who tore into Bashir’s show calling it a “moral nightmare.” What sent Pierce into a frenzy was a segment on Bashir’s show on Monday of this week, where he discussed the Obama administration’s drone strike policy […]

Last week, the liberal co-host of Fox News’ The Five, Bob Beckel, was a little perturbed that MSNBC had copied his show’s format by commenting that The Cycle “didn’t have a prayer.” If early ratings are any indication, Beckel may be right. The Cycle, which took the 3 p.m. time slot while Martin Bashir’s program moved to the 4 p.m. slot, […]

New York Times opinion columnist Charles Blow used his appearance on Martin Bashir’s program on Tuesday to take a shot at Republican-led efforts to enact voter identification laws, calling them a “poll tax.” He said that it will help the GOP steal the election in the fall. Bashir asked Blow if what President Obama meant […]

Politico has suspended reporter Joe Williams for remarks he made yesterday on MSNBC and Twitter, in which he disparaged Mitt Romney. Williams appeared on Martin Bashir’s program to talk about his perception that Romney is struggling to connect with voters, which seems to be a major preoccupation of the mainstream media: “But it also points […]

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On a day that Barack Obama was giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a socialist, Dolores Huerta, who has praised Hugo Chavez; and just days after left-wing activist Al Sharpton was comparing Republicans to Hitler, the media were consumed with the horror of projected Republican nominee Mitt Romney sharing a stage with Donald Trump, […]

According to a Rasmussen Poll conducted last March, over 80 percent of likely U.S. voters see the economy as a “very important” issue going into this November.  A strong economy leads to a strong and prosperous country.  A good indicator of the strength of the economy is the number of jobs created.  Despite the national […]