Accuracy in Media

LifeZette asked our chairman Don Irvine to comment on NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt’s performance last night as a debate moderator, and the grade is not flattering: “He.. gets a generous grade of C from me for his performance.  In my opinion, he also did a poor job of keeping the candidates on topic […]

Our chairman Don Irvine was asked to comment on last night’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and NBC News anchor Lester Holt by LifeZette: “I was somewhat optimistic before the debate that Lester Holt would be a fair and balanced moderator, but instead he appeared to have listened to the Clinton camp’s complaints […]

Just as I was about to publish this blogpost with a different headline, I saw this headline from MSNBC—“Disgraced Fox News exec Roger Ailes to help Trump”—and decided to parrot it. Brian Williams, the disgraced former anchor of NBC Nightly News, will be getting his own half-hour show on MSNBC from Labor Day through Election Day, according […]

Former NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will return to NBC Universal in an unspecified role, according to news reports. Williams was suspended by NBC in February for six months after making false claims in his reports about the Iraq War. He has reportedly been anxious to return to the network, tarnished reputation and all. […]

Suspended NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams won’t be appearing on the Lincoln Awards airing tonight on PBS, after all. Instead there will be a taped intro from First Lady Michelle Obama. Williams, who hosted the event back in January that honored people who help military veterans and their families, voluntarily bowed out according to […]

The turmoil surrounding NBC News and MSNBC is beginning to have a deleterious effect on both networks’ finances as revenues are declining while rivals are seeing increases, according to the 2015 Pew State of the Media report. Pew estimated that the Today show’s revenue declined 12 percent from 2013 and even though it’s still the […]

Maybe Dan Rather was wrong and Brian Williams isn’t done at NBC after all. According to the New York Daily News, NBC News chairman Andrew Lack is looking for a way to bring Williams back to the anchor chair of the Nightly News instead of firing him or pressuring him to resign. Lack, the Daily News […]

According to Paul Farhi of The Washington Post, a source who is familiar with the months-long investigation of former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams told him that the network has found 11 instances in which Williams exaggerated the facts in his reporting. The investigation was triggered after Williams apologized in February for repeatedly stating that […]

Tom Brokaw, who anchored the NBC Nightly News for more than 20 years, made his first public comments about the controversy surrounding Brian Williams’ repeated lies. He called it a “really, really serious case.” Brokaw‘s remarks came in response to a question from Vanity Fair last week on his relationship with Williams and NBC’s investigation of […]

ABC’s World News Tonight topped NBC’s Nightly News in the latest ratings, snapping the Peacock network’s 288 week win streak as the number one evening news broadcast. WNT won in both total viewers with 7.997 million to Nightly News’ 7.913 million, and in the 18-49 demo by a margin of 1.952 million to 1.791 million, […]