Accuracy in Media

In the Dateline NBC interview by Lester Holt of outgoing President Barack Obama, Obama accepted some blame for the Democratic Party’s overall state. He admitted that he was not able to figure out how to spread his brand to the Democratic Party during the midterm elections and that it was “a legitimate criticism.” But, then he went and […]

Outgoing President Barack Obama claimed that he doesn’t make politics personal in the Dateline NBC special interview “Reality of Hope.” However, that statement was later debunked when NBC ran his own remarks given after the Sandy Hook shooting, where Obama said, “Are you serious?” in response to the gun rights movement’s opposition to his gun […]

If you tracked the questions that Lester Holt, Obama’s interviewer at Dateline NBC, you’d be disappointed if you were expecting hard-hitting and good questions directed to the outgoing President Barack Obama. Here are three examples of the questions Holt asked Obama in Dateline NBC’s “Reality of Hope” interview: Holt on racism in America: “But was there […]

Outgoing President Barack Obama, in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, mentioned how his ‘hope and change’ campaign may have been “naive” and put “unrealistic expectations” in the minds of Americans. Here is a transcript of the interview segment: Obama: “…That pride is something that was a positive…any talk of it being a post-racial America, […]