Accuracy in Media

Several unlikely stories have defended President Trump against their fellow journalists’ claims. Piers Morgan, not known for backing conservatives, wrote in a column for the Daily Mail that one thing even Trump’s enemies “cannot continue to deny” is that the president “delivers on his promises.” The Wall Street Journal took Adam Schiff, one of the president’s […]

Former CNN host Piers Morgan thinks that CNN President Jeff Zucker should be more like former owner Ted Turner, and focus more on the brand and not the ratings. Morgan made his comments in an exclusive interview with Politico: ‘I’ve always felt that CNN should be more resilient to media criticism about monthly or quarterly […]

Piers Morgan, who was fired from his CNN television show in February, announced on Tuesday that he and the network have officially parted company. Morgan, whose contract expired in July, had been negotiating with CNN for a role conducting periodic interviews throughout the year. But he said in a tweet that he was turning down […]

  As the Malaysian Air flight MH370 coverage fades from CNN, so do the ratings, as the network hit its second-lowest ratings last Friday in the 9 p.m. hour. The time-slot, which was most recently occupied by Piers Morgan, managed to attract a paltry 48K viewers in the 25-54 demo, and 226K viewers total, according […]

Nearly three years ago, then CNN president Jon Klein hired British television host Piers Morgan to replace the retiring Larry King. Yesterday, current CNN president Jeff Zucker announced that after a ratings free fall, Morgan’s show Piers Morgan Live would be ending its run in March. At the time Klein praised Morgan and said he […]

If CNN president Jeff Zucker needs any more evidence that he should shake things up at the network, he need look no further than the ratings for Piers Morgan Live this week. On Tuesday, Morgan averaged just 50,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demo, making it his worst-rated show since May 15, 2012, when he […]

Maybe CNN president Jeff Zucker is right when he says that more reality based programming is what the network needs to bust out of their ratings doldrums. That surely seems like the case based on last week’s ratings, when business channel CNBC ran a rerun of ABC’s reality show Shark Tank, and easily beat Piers Morgan. […]

CNN, whose ratings took a brief upturn last year after Jeff Zucker took over, regressed last week with daytime ratings that hit 20-month lows. For the week, CNN averaged 78,000 A25-54 Total Day viewers, making it the lowest-rated week since the week of May 14, 2012. The news wasn’t much better in the primetime demo, […]

Dan Rather, the disgraced former anchor of the CBS Evening News, appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN and defended 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan, who is currently on leave after the network admitted that important parts of her report on Benghazi were inaccurate. Rather compared her situation to the one he faced in 2004 after he inaccurately […]

CNN’s Piers Morgan, who has admitted that he supports Obamacare, nonetheless went on a truth seeking mission on Wednesday night when he quizzed Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) as to why President Obama lied about people being able to keep their insurance plans under Obamacare. Morgan: When the President repeatedly stood up and told the American […]