Media Matters for America

What NBC News still won't tell you ...

On Thanksgiving, NBC's Nightly News aired a clip of retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey discussing "Afghan security forces." During the report, neither NBC News nor Gen. McCaffrey disclosed that McCaffrey serves on the board of directors of DynCorp International, a defense contractor that was awarded a $317.4 million contract with the State Department to provide advisers to the Afghanistan National Police, a component of the "Afghanistan National Security Forces."

In order to prevent even the appearance of impropriety on behalf of NBC News, it is imperative that they provide full disclosure of any potential conflicts of interest to their viewers in the future.

Call NBC News and demand full disclosure of military analysts' ties to defense contractors.

Military Analysts

Update: Congress Has taken a strong stand to ensure that the government is not promoting propaganda unchecked, sadly, the media remain mostly silent.

When the broadcast media ignored reports that many of the military analysts they featured on the air to talk about the war in Iraq were actually Pentagon-sponsored advocates, Media Matters was there. We provided viewers the tools they needed to contact the media and demand honesty and accountability. Make your voice heard today.

Send an email to the networks and ask them to come clean.

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Savage

On the September 16 broadcast of his syndicated radio show, discussing a caller's comment that "Muslim fundamentalists" are "walk[ing] around Northern Virginia as if they own the place," Savage asked, "Why would a nation that is as evolved as America, and as liberal as America is socially, want to bring in throwbacks who are living in the 15th century? Now you have to ask yourself, what's the benefit? What is the societal benefit of bringing in throwbacks, some of whom are no doubt terrorists, and some of whom are gonna produce children who will become terrorists?"

Find your local Savage station, log into our calling tool, and tell your local station manager what you think about his hate speech and racist comments.

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CBS

When CBS spliced an interview with Sen. John McCain, removing a false assertion by McCain and adding an answer taken from another context, Media Matters mobilized concerned citizens to demand a response from CBS and encouraged CBS News to publicize its ethical standards for editing news interviews.

Call CBS News and urge it to spell out, on the air and online, its policy on editing interviews.

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Local Media Reporting Tool

Conservative misinformation isn't confined to the national media -- it's local, too. Does your local paper quote conservative attacks without giving progressives the opportunity to respond? Does your local TV station give you two sides of every debate: the right, and the far right? Does your local talk-radio blowhard repeat false rumors and smears from right-wing blogs as if they were fact? Log in below to report conservative misinformation, and take the first step in holding the media accountable.