Accuracy in Media

During an interview with Bloomberg TV, former vice president Al Gore said that he was proud of what Current TV accomplished, and that its Countdown with Keith Olbermann program “lifted up” the Occupy movement. Well I’m really proud of what my co-founder Joel Hyatt and I were able to do with Current. We built a […]

During a discussion about his wealth, CNN’s Piers Morgan got liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to admit that he has been a part of the 1% that the Occupy movement has been protesting. Morgan: Because I’ve asked for a few tweets, and in a few of them you say last time he came on your show, […]

During a discussion of the Occupy movement with Keith Olbermann last week, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne told Olbermann that the protesters were extremely confrontational but not violent. Olbermann: Particularly, the efforts—the extraordinary efforts being made to suppress it, to discredit it, to spray it, to claim it must be unhealthy, to say probably—next thing is it […]

A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that despite all of the media attention given to the Occupy movement a majority of Americans are either ambivalent or just don’t care about it. A little more than half of those surveyed- 56% — say they are neither supporters nor opponents of the Occupy movement while even more […]

In an interview with longtime anti-war activist Tom Hayden, Keith Olbermann asked Hayden whether or not the “Occupy Michele Bachmann” episode wasn’t turning the movement into a farce and diluting its message. Olbermann: One other thing about this event on board the ship — the Occupy Michele Bachmann moment. I mean it’s a certain element […]

Van Jones, the former Obama Green Jobs Czar, told Keith Olbermann that the Occupy Movement is maturing because they are starting to look at actual issues and actual topics. Jones was responding to Olbermann’s question as to whether or not the Occupy the Highway march from New York to Washington was really worth it if […]