By James D. Agresti June 6, 2020 Reuters/Carlos Barria Overview After falsely accusing the U.S. Park Police of tear-gassing peaceful protesters on behalf of President Trump, many media outlets and…

…of a bitch, he got fired.” Twitter’s brazen falsehood only scratches the surface of media misinformation about this matter. In addition to spreading outright fictions, media outlets are failing to…

By James D. Agresti May 7, 2019 Amidst an intense national debate over illegal immigration and crime, major media outlets are reporting on a grisly, high-profile murder while failing to…

…Trump and these media outlets excludes 24% of household income. More comprehensive data recently published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals that median household income has climbed by $5,000…

…wrong.” Left unsaid by Muir and all of the candidates is that the media has manipulated the vast majority of Americans to believe that the wealthy pay a lower tax…

By James D. Agresti August 22, 2017 In the wake of President Trump’s comments about the killing and mass violence in Charlottesville, media outlets and politicians have alleged that Trump…

…been widely spread by the media, but data from the U.S. Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Tax Policy Center prove the exact opposite is true. Politico recently published…

…their handling of the pandemic. By misusing anecdotes and stripping data of vital context, these media figures have woven a narrative that is at stark odds with reality. As documented…

…to the petty drama often reported in the news. are untrue but were widely spread by the media, politicians, or other major public figures. Facts Fact #1: About 11.5% of…

By James D. Agresti October 5, 2018 Abstract In this era of #MeToo and rampant sexual assault allegations, many media outlets, politicians, and scholars are misleading people about the prevalence…

…chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, reported on August 16: We are likely to see the 170,000 mark crossed today—confirmed deaths from Covid-19. But researchers have looked at the actual number…

By James D. Agresti June 20, 2019 Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and certain media outlets are blaming steep rises in college costs on reduced government funding for higher education. The…

…it’s not true. In response, the Associated Press published a “fact check“ claiming that illegal immigrants are more law-abiding than the general public. Various media outlets, such as the New…

…white people” are killed by police than black people. CBS News, the New York Times, and many other media outlets are criticizing Trump’s response because blacks are a much smaller…

…the burden that today’s Americans are placing on future generations. Although the report discloses information of crucial import to U.S. citizens, Google News indicates that no media outlet has informed…

By James D. Agresti December 20, 2012 In the aftermath of the Dark Knight shooting in Aurora, Colorado, media outlets were awash with misleading claims about violence and firearms. Since…

…is the media’s fixation on just a few of the 16,000 murders that occur every year in the United States. The editorial board of the New York Times recently accused…

…with a flood of global warming-related misinformation spread by the media and environmental groups. North Atlantic Storms and Hurricanes In the North Atlantic region, where hurricanes Harvey and Irma formed,…

…Cyclone and Hurricane Trends Contrary to the Post and other media outlets, cyclones and hurricanes have not become more common or intense. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

By James D. Agresti April 17, 2018 During recent teacher walkouts in Oklahoma that captured national attention, many major media outlets reported misleadingly small figures for teacher pay. By failing…

…clinics, and media outlets have used the phrase “late-term” on numerous occasions to describe abortions that are performed from as few as 14 weeks into pregnancy to as many as…

…media outlets, and activists continue to repeat it. The salient facts of this matter are documented in Just Facts’ comprehensive research on abortion and summarized below. Before partial-birth abortions were…

…generations are betraying younger ones by not doing enough to stop climate change. The media has amplified these allegations by giving her speech broad, glowing coverage, but the fears she…

…him of sexual assault, and the media began publishing many “facts” about such crimes. These supposedly showed that only a tiny portion of sexual assault allegations are false, giving the…

By James D. Agresti July 31, 2012 In the wake of the Dark Knight massacre in Aurora, Colorado, major media outlets and public figures have been making statements about guns…

…collectively show that by 20 weeks, humans have pain receptors, consciousness, and physical responses to painful events. Nevertheless, many media outlets have recently reported that humans cannot feel pain by…

By James D. Agresti February 28, 2015 Based upon two new papers in academic journals, media outlets have been reporting that the world’s oceans are overwhelmed with plastic waste. However,…

…high-efficiency incandescents cannot currently meet, thus making the mercury-filled compact florescent lights (CFLs) the presumptive standard. Media coverage has been virtually devoid of this fact. The following lays out the…

…not cause cancer, affect development or suppress the immune system in humans. Fueling the deceitful impression advanced by Obama and others, major media outlets, such as Politico, NBC News, and…

…“should work harder at assimilation” and shouldn’t isolate themselves “in their communities.” NBC condemned his comments as “inaccurate and inappropriate,” media outlets ran articles and editorials calling them racist and…

…shelter, clothing, education, and health.” Contrary to what many journalists and pundits have alleged, there is a strong association between government debt and poor economic progress. Numerous media outlets have…

…[Israeli territory] to carry out suicide bombing attacks….” The direct nature of this evidence leaves virtually no doubt that this border barrier has been effective. Flawed Analyses Several media outlets…

…of ecologists and biologists who concluded that mankind is headed towards causing “a major extinction” of marine animals. This paper was greeted with extensive media coverage warning of a looming…

…impediment to planning for that eventuality. In this regard, too, Kiribati is a microcosm of the world’s unwillingness to face the reality of the future. This episode highlights the media’s…

…Washington, DC and Brunswick, Maine. Along with FtF, a number of media outlets have promoted this story or published others in the same vein: • Huffington Post: “North Pole Melting…

By James D. Agresti January 30, 2018 Correction appended Throughout the extensive media coverage of President Trump allegedly calling Haiti, El Salvador, and nations of Africa “s—hole countries,” most journalists…

…has made the same claim, and many media outlets have published stories saying he is correct, such as the Washington Post, Salon, FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact, the last two of which…

…vitally impacts U.S. citizens, but a search of Google News shows that no media outlet has reported on it, even though it was published more than two weeks ago. “A…

…the media’s coverage of this issue. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes that “this is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation,” and as such, this article will be…

…not be as concerned with the political consequences of any actions he will take after the election. Many media outlets are reporting on this incident without offering significant context about…

By James D. Agresti November 25, 2019 Leading presidential candidates and major media outlets are claiming that school districts with high concentrations of minorities and poor children generally receive less…

…money but how it is spent. In spite of these facts, media outlets have published headlines like these: “The Shocking Number of Americans Who Can’t Cover a $400 Expense” –…

…there to film the siege. He had previously referred to antifa—a loosely affiliated group of antifascist activists that has no leader—on social media, but he has repeatedly denied being a…

…and income, unlike the incomplete and misleading tax rates often reported by media outlets and politicians. Correct answer given by 15% of all voters, 6% of Democratic voters, 23% of…

…ability to pay its obligations.” Beyond such explicit statements, numerous budget figures cited by the White House, other federal agencies, and virtually all media outlets are based on this accounting…

…media corporation that has more monetary resources than one of the two major political parties in the United States. Now, the Times is asking the U.S. government—which is now controlled…

…party lines, age, race, gender, income, and geographical areas.” However, instead of reporting the facts of this important issue, a number of influential media sources are greatly exaggerating the problem….

…population. This represents merely one of the widely different ways of measuring poverty, but it is the federal government’s official measure, and the media follows suit. As stated in a…

…the media reports as “science” is actually partisan propaganda that is refuted by science. The issue of global warming is rife with this, and Nye’s statements epitomize the junk science…

…of journalistic ethics that require reporters and media outlets to “acknowledge mistakes” and explain them “carefully and clearly.” #2 Dr. Cook’s Credentials Cox also assails the credibility of Dr. Michael…

…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…

…Congressional Budget Office projections of publicly held debt, which is which is a partial measure of the national debt that is often cited by government agencies and media outlets. In…

…the U.S. during 2019, even if only 5% of them voted, this would amount to more than a million illegal votes cast in the 2020 election. Some media outlets and…

…and relegated to an optional example. This was a general layout change that involved numerous issues, including many conservative ones. Yet instead of correcting Bridge, other media outlets like the…

By James D. Agresti February 4, 2013 In the wake of stunning news that the U.S. economy shrunk by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2012, prominent media outlets and…

…annually,” “later abortions” add up to “a substantial number of abortions.” Hence, these supposedly “very rare” late-term abortions are more numerous than incidents that the media portrays as common occurrences…

By Stuart Shepard and James D. Agresti February 12, 2018 It’s a common theme in the news media: Education needs more money. Always. In keeping with that storyline, a recent…