Accuracy in Media

Nate Silver took a couple of swipes at the media on his FiveThirtyEight podcast — including his former employer, the New York Times — for screwing up the coverage of the 2016 election by creating a false narrative on Hillary Clinton. The main topic of the podcast was on Clinton’s new book, What Happened, in […]

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 […]

AIM takes a quick look at some of the most inaccurate comments and predictions from the liberal media and politicians during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Former President Bill Clinton blamed “that bogus email deal” and the Russians for the defeat of his wife Hillary in the presidential election last month. Clinton spoke briefly with reporters after casting his Electoral College vote for her in Albany, NY on Monday: “I’ve never cast a vote I was prouder of. You know I […]

This week, Don and Brian tackle all the noise about Russian hacking and alleged influence on the presidential election, the spread of fake news, Trump’s latest cabinet picks, Kanye West’s visit with Donald Trump, Nate Silver on Comey and Clinton, Electoral College voting and more. iTunes link is HERE. Below is SoundCloud: YouTube recording is […]

The liberal media appears to be all-in on Hillary Clinton winning the White House tonight: The Washington Post’s The Fix said Clinton will win with 275 electoral votes. The New York Times’ Upshot downgraded from 92% chance of a Clinton win to 84% this week. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Clinton a 71% chance of winning, […]

Nate Silver, the man who called the 2012 election for Obama and did so in face of other pollsters denying an overwhelming Obama re-election victory, said the following about the Clinton vs. Trump electoral map, per the liberal media: “Look, you have some forecasts that show Clinton with a 98 or 99 percent chance of […]

Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough called the media “disgusting” Friday morning for accusing him of supporting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on his show. Scarborough was discussing Trump’s rising poll numbers on the show when he went after the media: “Now in case you have a short attention span, right. In case you’re like that […]

NBC News’ online poll conducted with SurveyMonkey claimed to show that Hillary Clinton won the debate, but even FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver’s outfit) said to be cautious. Silver wrote that Clinton should be up, but pointed out flaws with post-debate polling, such as some polls had a small sample size of respondents post-debate compared to pre-debate.

In her latest blog post, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan lamented the departure of the paper’s star numbers man, Nate Silver, to ESPN, but also admitted that in many ways he wasn’t a great fit at the Times: I don’t think Nate Silver ever really fit into the Times culture and I think […]