Accuracy in Media

It was all in the adjectives when the Washington Post reported on President Trump’s opening foray at the NATO summit in Brussels. Below a video of Trump matter-of-factly addressing leaders without raising his voice, the Post’s Michael Birnbaum and Seung Min Kim described a seemingly different scene for their readers. “President Trump unleashed a blistering […]

The liberal media, CNN included, wondered if President Donald Trump was rude in allegedly shoving aside Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at this week’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels, Belgium. It’s another hypothetical anti-Trump news piece, where the media is trying to portray the president as rude and bellicose. Was it shove? […]

President Donald Trump, whose critical comments on U.S. involvement and participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on the campaign trail led to uncertainty in Europe, said that Germany owes NATO money by not reaching their target goal of defense spending of 2% of GDP. This led to the defense minister of Germany, Ursula Von […]

Per the American Action Forum (AAF), NATO countries increased their spending in 2016. Some factors in the spending increase are increased Russian aggression on the borders of Eastern Europe (i.e. Crimea annexation and Ukraine’s civil war) and President Trump’s campaign rhetoric about rethinking America’s spending habits as a member of NATO: …[W]hile 23 NATO member countries increased […]

The media may have blown up the story beyond what it was: political name-calling on the Senate floor between two Republican senators on foreign policy. Arizona U.S. Senator John McCain was upset at Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s remarks on admitting Montenegro as a NATO member, and said that Paul was working for Russian President […]

In an Obama legacy piece at the Los Angeles Times, the writers admitted the reality that Obama was a war-time president, despite Obama’s criticisms of his predecessor George W. Bush: But Obama leaves a very different legacy as he prepares to hand his commander-in-chief responsibilities to Donald Trump. U.S. military forces have been at war […]

Theresa May, the first female British prime minister since Margaret “The Iron Lady” Thatcher, will be visiting the U.S. as the first foreign leader to visit Trump’s White House. She will meet with President Trump on Friday and will discuss topics such as the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Syrian civil […]

Wow…that’s big news for NATO: The U.S.-led NATO alliance will detail plans for its enhanced presence in the Baltics and Poland, where a battalion of U.S. Army cavalrymen will be among the forces deploying to NATO’s eastern flank early next year. “This is credible deterrence,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday. “Concrete proof that […]

Supposedly, both sides signed a ceasefire, but the Ukrainian government claims it hasn’t been observed by pro-Russia rebels. Photo by Congress of local and regional authorities

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took the media to task for what he felt is their reluctance to tell the public anything important. Rubio made his remarks during a speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday: It’s a lot easier to say, for example, why do we give all this money to NATO […]