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Don Irvine

Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media and its sister organization Accuracy in Academia. As the son of Reed Irvine, who launched AIM in 1969, he developed an understanding of media bias at an early age, and has been actively involved with AIM for over 30 years.

Most Recent Articles by Don Irvine:


Chris Matthews Urges Democrats to Not Vote for "Mr. Nice Guy" Neil Gorsuch

MSNBC's Chris Matthews is still upset by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) decision last year to not act on President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. In fact he is imploring Democrats to vote against "Mr. Nice Guy" Neil Gorsuch, saying "it's not his turn."
- Friday, March 24, 2017


Breitbart Was Right: NY Times Admits Pigford Was Rife With Fraud

The New York Times released a major 5,000 word investigative report exposing Obama administration appointees’ abuse of a federal program to compensate farmers who had faced discrimination. Back in 2010, however, the Times had urged for faster compensation and less bureaucratic roadblocks for the “Pigford” defendants:
- Saturday, April 27, 2013

Another Nail in the Newspaper Coffin

The Financial Times announced this week it plans to eliminate 35 jobs while adding 10 digital journalists, as the paper shifts its focus to digital from print.
- Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Obama Shuns Fox News at Press Conferences

A new analysis of President Obama’s press conferences during his first term shows that he clearly favored the mainstream media over Fox News by a fairly wide margin.
- Saturday, January 19, 2013


Al Jazeera Bails Out Al Gore – Buys Current TV

Al Gore, who has spent the better part of two years attempting to build a far left cable network to compete with MSNBC, threw in the towel with the sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera yesterday.
- Thursday, January 3, 2013

R.I.P. Newsweek

After nearly eighty years Newsweek has printed its final copy featuring a picture of the old Newsweek offices in New York with a Twitter hashtag #LastPrintIssue plastered across the front.
- Thursday, December 27, 2012



NYT Reporter: White House is “So Much Cockier” Than in 2011

While being interviewed on Sunday’s Meet the Press about the fiscal cliff, New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper said that she noticed that the White House has a completely different attitude about debt negotiations with the Republicans than they did in 2011:
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Can Jeff Zucker Save CNN?

The New York Times is reporting that former NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Zucker is likely to be named the new president of CNN in the next few weeks, capping a search for a successor to Jim Walton, who announced in July that he would be retiring at the end of the year.
- Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Media Gave Romney the Shaft During Election

Conservatives have complained for years that the news media were “in the tank” for Obama, and based on the results of a new Pew study, those claims seem to have been borne out.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012

New Study Shows that MSNBC is Overwhelmingly Negative Towards Romney

As if anyone needed more proof that MSNBC has a strong Democratic and left-wing bias, along comes a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism which shows that MSNBC has been far more negative in its coverage of Mitt Romney than Fox News has of President Obama.
- Saturday, November 3, 2012

Newsweek Gives Up on Print–Going Digital in 2013

Newsweek announced today that after nearly 80 years, it will cease publishing the magazine in print and go all digital in 2013. They are basically throwing in the towel on the disastrous merger of Newsweek and The Daily Beast.
- Thursday, October 18, 2012

CNN’s Crowley Gives Obama a Boost During Debate

President Obama,who needed a knockout performance at last night’s presidential debate to revive his flagging campaign, received a big boost from moderator Candy Crowley at a critical juncture of the debate.
- Wednesday, October 17, 2012



Reed Irvine, Conservative Media Pioneer

Ninety years ago today, in Salt Lake City, Utah, a boy was born to William and Edna Irvine. That boy was my father, Reed Irvine, the founder and first chairman of Accuracy in Media. My father grew up poor, as many did at that time, but thanks to his mother he had an almost insatiable appetite for reading and a thirst for knowledge. After two years of high school, he went on to attend the University of Utah where he was not only elected to Phi Beta Kappa, but also wrestled and was given the nickname “Killer,” which would epitomize his instincts towards the liberal media later in his adult life.
- Saturday, September 29, 2012

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