Accuracy in Media

Veteran NBC anchor Tom Brokaw chided senators Wednesday for asking a series of questions to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exposed their lack of understanding of the platform and social media as a whole. Zuckerberg’s appearance demonstrated most Senators think the digital age means you can still count with your fingers — Tom Brokaw (@tombrokaw) […]

TV Newser released its 10th annual list of commencement speakers, and conservatives are conspicuously missing. Colleges and universities preach that they are bastions of free speech and diversity of opinion, but it’s clear that when it comes to commencement speakers who are part of the media, only one viewpoint is tolerated: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour: Northeastern University […]

Episode 58.  This week Brian and I discuss the historic vote by Vice President Mike Pence to confirm Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, the latest in the battle over Trump’s immigration executive order, the politicization of Super Bowl commercials, Elizabeth Warren gets rebuked by the Senate and much more. Please SUBSCRIBE on iTunes SoundCloud audio […]

Veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw praised President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, while questioning why Democrats would want to fight this nomination, during an appearance Friday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “For example, there’s going to be a big pushback on the part of the Democrats about Judge Gorsuch. They’re going to make that one […]

Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw struggled to explain why President Obama decided to stay in Cuba after the terrorist attacks in Brussels rather than cancel the rest of his trip, as Brokaw expected he would. Brokaw made his comments on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday: So much of politics and national security is […]

Former NBC evening news anchor Tom Brokaw criticized Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Sunday for her assertion in an interview with Andrea Mitchell on Friday that she didn’t really “think” about the effect of having an unsecured email server at the State Department. Appearing on Meet the Press, Brokaw said he was “stunned” that in […]

Tom Brokaw, who anchored the NBC Nightly News for more than 20 years, made his first public comments about the controversy surrounding Brian Williams’ repeated lies. He called it a “really, really serious case.” Brokaw‘s remarks came in response to a question from Vanity Fair last week on his relationship with Williams and NBC’s investigation of […]

Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw lashed out at the rapid expansion of the blogosphere, which he said is now laced with profane, vitriolic and misogynistic language. Brokaw made his comments on Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC: …I think about my grandchildren, just from a domestic point of view. They’ll still have very […]

On NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw told host David Gregory that it was “tough to see” how Attorney General Eric Holder keeps his job in light of the Justice Department leak investigations that have enraged the press. Gregory: Does he (Holder) stay in the job? Brokaw: Boy, I think […]

Former NBC Evening news anchor Tom Brokaw is slated to moderate an Earth Day town hall on April 22 on The Weather Channel as part of NBCU’s “Green is Universal” programming during what they are calling Earth Week, according to Monsters and Critics: Entitled “Changing Planet,” this is one in a series of three events […]