Accuracy in Media

Articles about a search of the Virginia home of “gun rights activist” Adam Kokesh fail to note that he is a former program host for Russia Today (RT) television, a controversial channel funded by Moscow. Kokesh, who is sometimes even mistakenly labeled as a “conservative,” admitted he was a paid Russian agent in an interview that I […]

The NSA leaker is being protected by China and has a home waiting in Russia. Yet, conservative media personalities such as Glenn Beck are saying that he is a hero. They seem to think that the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program has been used by Obama to go after conservatives, in the same way we have […]

The major news organizations have been driven by the Drudge Report and WorldNetDaily to cover protests against a meeting of the “Bilderbergers” at a Marriott hotel outside Washington, D.C. The stories usually feature Alex Jones, a Texas-based radio host who regularly appears on Moscow-funded Russia Today (RT) television, or Daniel Estulin, a Russian-born writer whose […]

Luke Harding of the London Guardian says Julian Assange is a “useful idiot,” based on the premier episode of his Russian Today (RT) program “The World Tomorrow.” The show featured a mostly softball interview with Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, who not surprisingly adopted the Russian position of support for the Assad regime in Syria. […]

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2011 – Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid challenged Russia Today personality, Adam Kokesh, to explain his true intentions in recent protests at the Jefferson Memorial. “American media consumers need to understand that there is more to this than unorthodox PR stunts,” Director of the Center for Investigative Journalism Cliff Kincaid said. “Since […]

Accuracy in Media’s own Cliff Kincaid was featured in an April report on the English-language network, Russia Today, about the rise of foreign media outlets . An excerpt from the RT story: But while many laud the need for freedom of information abroad, others seek to have it silenced at home. A group called America’s […]