Accuracy in Media

Bleacher Report, a sports website owned by the parent company of CNN, TNT and TBS, is not sticking to sports. Sportswriter Mike Tanier lamented how recent anti-Trump NFL protests during the playing of the American national anthem are detracting from Colin Kaepernick’s original protest in a recent article. Kaepernick, a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, kneeled or […]

News broke last week that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest was a primary reason behind the decline in NFL TV ratings last season. A J.D. Power poll found that 26% of viewers said that the anthem protest dissuaded them from watching NFL games. However, the media pushed back against the […]

Freedom of speech is not free speech if you’re working for a private company or corporation, in some regards. Unfortunately, some people do not understand that concept. Brandon Marshall, a defensive player, came to Colin Kaepernick’s defense and said that Kaepernick was being blackballed by the league for his national anthem protest. Marshall did protest […]

Former football executive Mike Lombardi was on The Ringer’s podcast, “GM Street,” and spoke about his take on why quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still unsigned and unemployed. It was not due to his protests of the national anthem for the sake of racial persecution, but Kaepernick’s lack of respect within a locker room among his […]

Contrary to the liberal media narrative, NFL head coach for the Baltimore Ravens John Harbaugh said that Colin Kaepernick is unemployed because of “more nuanced” reasons. John Harbaugh is the brother of former San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh (Jim coached Kaepernick in San Francisco). The current media narrative is that because Kaepernick spoke his […]

Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report gave a sob story about how former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is not getting a fair shake by NFL teams after Kaepernick’s national anthem protest rubbed teams and executives the wrong way. The piece claimed that Kaepernick spoke his mind and suffered the consequences of free speech. However, […]

Last year, when it was popular for professional athletes to kneel or sit down during the playing of the American national anthem, there was outcry on both sides of the political aisle about whether it was appropriate or not. At that time, Megan Rapinoe joined the likes of Colin Kaepernick of the NFL and a […]