Accuracy in Media

Robert Mueller’s investigation has turned up no evidence Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election. As the investigation, which Trump has said he believes is politically motivated, continues, he has grown increasingly impatient. But a Mother Jones piece Tuesday by David Corn said that the investigation hasn’t […]

The New York Times has been inconsistent in its reporting around the FBI and the investigation of the Trump campaign, which led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Fox News’ Howard Kurtz reports about the paper’s changed tune: “The New York Times has run a rather stunning correction, only a year and a […]

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller closes in on President Trump, Mueller is waging “an increasingly aggressive campaign to undercut the Russia investigation by exposing the role of a top-secret FBI source,” the Washington Post reported Thursday. “The dispute pits Trump and the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee against the Justice Department and intelligence […]

MSNBC anchor Brian Williams failed to acknowledge difficult questions surrounding the Robert Mueller probe, which is now heading into its second year. In an interview with four former FBI officials, Williams failed to probe deeper into the origins of the Mueller probe, and instead, repeating the thesis from The New York Times that the FBI was […]

Just when mainstream media was beginning to lose hope anything would come of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, some of the questions Mueller reportedly would like to ask President Trump in a one-on-one interview were leaked to the press. The president was outraged. “So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russia Witch Hunt were ‘leaked’ […]

Just at the moment there began to be a sense that Robert Mueller might have gone too far with his delegated-to-the-Southern District of New York raid on the home, office and hotel room of President Trump’s attorney, the mainstream media rushed out with a slew of new polls showing Americans want the president and his […]

President Trump and his attorneys and senior staff have repeatedly said they are not considering firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller or pardoning anyone connected to the case, but the mainstream media cannot bring itself to accept that verdict. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported, based on three anonymous sources it identified as “people with […]

The first few stories that alleged President Trump was planning to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller involved a few equivocations. The New York Times’ most recent story, however, cited four anonymous sources, that, as the Mueller probe runs out of steam and accusations of misdeeds by the Department of Justice and FBI reach a crescendo, […]

In the old days, when the Associated Press was the gold standard for unbiased newspaper copy, it broke stories of corruption and covered the trials that sometimes followed. But according to a story on Thursday from investigative journalist Sara Carter, the AP actively assisted the government in its prosecution of former Trump campaign manager Paul […]

On Thursday, AIM published a piece about an article in the Washington Post that claimed President Trump and his aides were formulating a plan to attack the honesty and character of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn should Flynn make criminal accusations against the president to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.   Friday, without any further […]