Accuracy in Media

Newsweek has accused Ivanka Trump of plagiarizing herself in a speech she gave in India this week. “While Trump did say a few lines crafted specifically for the event she was attending—”In this ‘City of Pearls,’ the greatest treasure is you!” she said, citing Hyderabad’s moniker to an applauding audience—it appeared the breadth of her talking points […]

CNN, hardly a neutral news source in the Trump presidency, did publish an article detailing the alleged plagiarism of Hillary Clinton’s pastor, Bill Shillady. Shillady allegedly did not attribute another pastor for a devotional that was published in his upcoming book, “Strong for a Moment Like This: The Daily Devotions of Hillary Rodham Clinton”. Shillady […]

Looks like the liberals lost on this one, where the Democrats forced the Republicans’ hand to invoke the “nuclear option” (i.e. dismantle the filibuster) and followed the example of former Democratic U.S. Senator Harry Reid. This allowed the GOP to confirm President Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. But, the liberals tried to derail […]

Is this a non-starter as an issue? Or does it matter that elements and lines from Michelle Obama’s speech were apparently lifted and used in Melania Trump’s RNC convention speech this week? Either way, speechwriter Meredith McIver is in the limelight for the wrong reasons.

Oh look, originality is lacking for Hillary Clinton. Who would’ve thought she was so desperate for that big book deal that she plagiarized herself in her latest book, Hard Choices.

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan encouraged student journalists to be accurate in their reporting, and to not plagiarize: And last, another certainty is the need to get it right. We need the strongest possible commitment to accuracy and its close cousin, fairness. Yes, we’re all in the biggest rush in the world to […]

Former Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock, who resigned from the paper in mid-April, announced on Twitter that she has been hired to blog for U.S. News & World Report. She will be the lead writer for the Washington Whispers blog which was previously written by Paul Bedard, who is now with The Washington Examiner. Flock […]

Washington Post blogPost writer, Elizabeth Flock, resigned from the newspaper on Friday after it was discovered that she used large portions of a story by Discovery News in a recent post. Last December Flock had erroneously reported that Mitt Romney’s campaign was using a slogan linked to the KKK, for which the Post had to issue a correction. So […]