Bill Toohey

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A question of trust

Katie Couric interview with Jayson Blair on Dateline NBS.

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Research Group Media Matters To Scrutinize Hispanic News More Closely

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New Audio, Video Cast Doubt On Bill O'Reilly's Reporting Claims

As embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly continues to fend off allegations of embellishing his reporting experiences, two new recordings have recently emerged calling his accounts into even greater question.On Monday, Mother Jones' David Co...

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Bill O'Reilly Uses MRC Stat to Show Liberal Media 'Subverting American Democracy'

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CBS Releases Footage Of O'Reilly's Buenos Aires Coverage, Settling Nothing

CBS News has responded to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's request and released the footage of its coverage of the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War.O'Reilly has come under fire after Mother Jones called...

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2) Former New York Times correspondent cited favorably by Bill O’Reilly rips Bill O’Reilly

Charges O’Reilly with failing to properly abridge his reporting.

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Fox News host Bill O'Reilly threatened a New York Times reporter on Monday night, promising to come after the reporter "with everything I have" if he felt that any of the reporter's coverage about his Falklands war controversy was inappropriate. "Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some...

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VA Secretary Robert McDonald Falsely Claimed He Served In 'Special Forces'

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Howard Kurtz Apologizes On Air: 'I Screwed Up'

Media critic Howard Kurtz turned the spotlight on his own failings Sunday, using his CNN show to offer a lengthy apology for an error-filled column this week -- a fiasco that was followed by the announcement that he would no longer be employed by The Daily Beast. But Kurtz, who wrote and then failed to adequately correct an article about NBA player Jason Collins' coming out as gay, peppered his response with defenses of his career despite a record of mistakes in recent years. "The mistake that I made was sloppy and inexcusable," Kurtz said on CNN's "Reliable Sources." "I'm not going to offer any extenuating circumstances. I screwed up."

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3) CBS staffers refute Bill O'Reilly's 'war zone' story

Bill O’Reilly’s account of a 1982 riot in Argentina is being sharply contradicted by seven other journalists who were his colleagues and were also there at the time.

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1) Bill O'Reilly vs. Mother Jones

Fox host calls David Corn a ‘liar’

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A brief history of the Falklands War

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CBS staffers refute Bill O'Reilly's 'war zone' story

Bill O’Reilly’s account of a 1982 riot in Argentina is being sharply contradicted by seven other journalists who were his colleagues and were also there at the time.

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Brian Williams' fib

Back during the Vietnam War, CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite was judged in the polls to be "the most trusted man in America" for his straightforward nightly reports. When he went to Vietnam and returned saying the war was "mired in stalemate," it was widely reported that President Lyndon Johnson had observed, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America" — or some variation thereof.

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Was Brian Williams a victim of false memory?

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Jon Stewart Takes On The Brian Williams Scandal

'Daily Show' anchor confronts his friend's, and the media's, mistakes

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Brian Williams stepping aside for 'next several days'

Brian Williams is stepping aside from his "NBC Nightly News" amid mounting questions about the accuracy of a story he told about an Iraq War mission in 2003.