Editing Accuracy in Media (section)

{{Short description|Conservative American news website}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Accuracy in Media
| logo                     = Accuracy in Media logo.png
| abbreviation             = AIM
| founder                  = Reed Irvine
| type                     = [[501(c)3 organization]]
| tax_id                   = 23-7135837
| location                 = Washington, D.C.
| leader_title             = President
| leader_name              = Adam Guillette
| website                  = {{Official URL}}
}}

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'''Accuracy in Media''' ('''AIM''') is an American non-profit [[conservative]]<ref>* "Follow-Up: Interview With Accuracy in Media Editor Cliff Kincaid", ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'', [[Fox News Channel]], February 8, 2005. (Transcript available via [http://www.lexisnexis.com LexisNexis])
* Stephen Miller, "Reed Irvine, 82, Founded Accuracy in Media", ''[[New York Sun]]'', November 18, 2004.
* Douglas Martin, "Murray Baron, 94, Labor Lawyer And Head of Accuracy in Media", ''The New York Times'', September 26, 2002.
* "Defining Bias Downward", ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'', January/February 2005.
* Steve Rendall. [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2053 The Fairness Doctrine] ''[[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting]]'' January/February 2005</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Fortunes of change : the rise of the liberal rich and the remaking of America|last1=Callahan|first1=David|date=2010|publisher=J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.|isbn=978-0470177112|location=Hoboken, N.J.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/fortunesofchange0000call}}</ref> news media [[Watchdog journalism|watchdog]] founded in 1969 by economist [[Reed Irvine]].

AIM supported the [[Vietnam War]] and blamed media bias for the U.S. loss in the war. During the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]], AIM criticized reporting about the [[El Mozote massacre]] in El Salvador. During the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]], AIM pushed [[Vince Foster]] [[Suicide of Vince Foster#Conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories]]. During the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush administration]], AIM accused the media of bias against the [[Iraq War]], defended the Bush administration's use of torture, and campaigned to stop the United States from signing the [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]] (UNCLOS). It described 2008 presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]] as "the most radical candidate ever to stand at the precipice of acquiring his party's presidential nomination. It is apparent that he is a member of an international socialist movement." It also criticized the media's response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name=":3" />

AIM, which opposes the [[scientific consensus on climate change]], has criticized media reporting on climate change. The organization gives out the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award. Past recipients include [[Marc Morano]] (who runs the [[climate change denial]] website ClimateDepot), [[Tucker Carlson]], and Jim Hoft (founder of ''[[The Gateway Pundit]]'').