Ginsburg Sexism Charge Undercut By Scientific Poll
By James D. Agresti September 28, 2017 In a recent interview on CBS This Morning, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spurred the audience to applause by saying she had…
Read more50 Examples of Fake News in 2024
…and John Dickerson of CBS News claimed that “the president of the United States has nothing to do with the price of bacon,” “or eggs,” “or gas,” “or any of…
Read moreReporters Wrong: Romney Pays a Far Higher Federal Tax Rate Than Most Americans
By James D. Agresti, Levi Morehouse, and Anna Harrington May 24, 2012 In stark contrast to a CBS News report declaring that Mitt Romney pays a “lower tax rate than…
Read moreProgressive Myths About Mass Shootings and Weapons of War
…of major media outlets: CNN, USA Today, NPR, Business Insider, CBS Chicago, and the New York Times all ran stories that described Willeford’s AR-15 simply as a “gun” or “rifle”…
Read moreFederal Report on the Death of Jeffrey Epstein is Rife With Evidence of Foul Play
…Farmer, who reported Epstein to the FBI back in 1996, told CBS News that Epstein’s mansion in New York was loaded with hidden cameras. Describing a surveillance room with a…
Read moreBlack People Do Not Suffer Disproportionately From Police Brutality
…this deception has stoked racial divides and driven people to despise and even murder police officers. In an interview with CBS News that is slated to air in full tonight,…
Read moreIs the Official Covid-19 Death Toll Accurate?
…that Covid-19 maybe had a chance to accelerate that process.” A Colorado-based CBS news station reported in April: The “Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has reclassified three deaths…
Read moreNew Data on Hunger in the United States
By James D. Agresti September 6, 2012 Did you know that “50 million people went hungry last year”? So says CBS News Philadelphia, based upon the claim of a local…
Read moreMedia Misinformation About Arming Teachers
…by a former NRA instructor to stop the carnage in the 2017 church shooting in Sutherland Hills, Texas. Yet, CNN, USA Today, NPR, Business Insider, CBS Chicago, and the New…
Read moreMedia Titans Subvert Reality About Biden/Ukraine Profiteering
…not authenticated or verified. Leslie Stahl of CBS’s 60 Minutes went as far as to say that it “can’t be verified.” Such claims are belied by the fact that key…
Read moreMaximum Facts About the Minimum Wage
…appear in articles by CBS, NPR, PBS, Reuters, the Washington Post, Vox, and ABC News, as well as commentaries published by Time, Rolling Stone, and the Los Angeles Times, and…
Read moreNY Times Publishes Slanderous Video About the Death of Trayvon Martin
…racial strife. The Times, CBS News, and the Washington Post all identify the Trayvon Martin case as the launching point of “Black Lives Matter.” This movement contends that “virulent anti-Black…
Read moreAssociated Press Twists the Facts About Democrats’ Impeachment of Trump
…forward to seeing you in Washington and maybe in Poland.” Importantly, Schiff uttered these falsehoods at the opening of a widely televised hearing. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNN en Espanol,…
Read moreSmoking Gun: Newly Discovered Emails Confirm Joe Biden Obstructed Justice For His Son’s Foreign Business Deal
…of CBS’s 60 Minutes insisted that the contents of Hunter’s laptop “can’t be verified,” even though 60 Minutes brags that it conducts “hard-hitting investigative” journalism. Demonstrating the absurdity of that…
Read moreBans on Plastic Bags Harm the Environment
…corporations like Disney, major media outlets like CBS—and because they have been misled about this subject since their youth. Such misinformation flows from educational resources like the Environmental Education Exchange’s…
Read moreSocial Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide With Leftism, Not Racism
…and instead implicate leftism. One of the mainstays of their argument is that mortgage companies discriminate against people of color by charging them higher rates, as reported by CBS, NBC,…
Read moreThe School Segregation Farce
…Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, etc., America’s schools have grown increasingly segregated since the 1990s. They all base this claim on a…
Read moreVisa Overstays Don’t Negate the Benefits of Border Barriers
…not. Some notable examples include: Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke Kate Smith of CBS News Salvador Rizzo, Glenn Kessler, and Meg Kelly, fact checkers for the Washington Post Ali Noorani,…
Read moreThe Constitution Does Not Grant Birthright Citizenship to the Children of Illegal Immigrants
…to the jurisdiction” but claiming that it includes illegal immigrants. This includes, for example, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, PolitiFact, and CBS News. The common thread…
Read moreCritics Fail to Debunk Explosive Study on Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…filings and 17 years of academic accomplishments. Among these are citations of Just Facts’ work by a wide variety of prominent and scholarly organizations, including: media outlets, such as CBS,…
Read moreVirginia Governor Issues False Statement Defending Late-Term Abortions
…contender Hillary Clinton told CBS’s Face the Nation in 2015 that “the kind of late-term abortions that take place are because of medical necessity.” Over the past several days, Governor…
Read moreAOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”
…40% of Americans Can’t Cover a Surprise $400 Expense” – CBS News “40% of Americans Can’t Cover a $400 Emergency Expense” – CNN Also, the survey includes all “noninstitutionalized, civilian”…
Read moreHunger Games: Reporters and Pundits Greatly Exaggerate Hunger in America
…Paul Kurtz of CBS News, Bob Beckel of Fox News, and Paul Krugman of the New York Times, Stoyan Zaimov of the Christian Post recently made it seem that hunger…
Read moreAs Murders Soar, FBI Buries the Data
…two years is largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A small sample includes the New York Times, Politico, Axios, CBS News, and CNN. This claim, however, is at odds with…
Read moreThe Tax Rates of Wall Streeters and Steelworkers
…of those who have done this includes the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, the New York Times, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, CBS, and Agence France-Presse. As a result…
Read moreMedia and Politicians Twist Trump’s Words About Charlottesville
…One day later, antifa attacked a local CBS reporter in Richmond, Virginia, who refused to stop filming them. The reporter was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he was…
Read moreThe Real “Big Money” in Politics
…that own media outlets like the Washington Post, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, NBC News, Time, and CNN. These corporations are sometimes controlled by the world’s wealthiest people. As…
Read morePowerful Groups Are Hiding Facts About Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…fraud among illegal immigrants, and the refusal of certain states and the Biden administration to release data on the citizenship status of voters. Conclusion In a recent interview on CBS…
Read moreSupport for “Soaking the Rich” Is Rooted in Media Misinformation
…includes the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, CBS News, and Agence France-Presse. Comprehensive, accurate tax rates must account for all…
Read moreTax Fairness Question at GOP Debate Rooted in Falsehood Spread by Media
…the New York Times, CBS News, Agence France-Presse, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org. Newspapers have also given the platform of their op-ed pages for others to spread these untruths, including Warren Buffett,…
Read moreThink Progress Exaggerates Child Hunger by 8,000%
…Kurtz of CBS News, Bob Beckel of Fox News, Paul Krugman of the New York Times, and Stoyan Zaimov of the Christian Post. Such widespread misreporting may explain why public…
Read moreWidely Touted Study on State and Local Taxes is a Sham
…income from low- and middle-income families than from wealthy families.” The findings of this study have been uncritically cited in prominent venues such as the Washington Post, CBS, the Daily…
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