Accuracy in Media

Accuracy in Media (AIM) is a conservative "media watchdog" organization founded in 1969 by Federal Reserve economist, staunch anti-communist, and unhinged Bircher nutcase Reed Irvine ,Reed Irvine's obituary in the Washington Post currently run by his son, Don. It was one of the first watchdog groups set up to fight "liberal media bias," making it something like the older but still ragingly crazy brother of Brent Bozell's Media Research Center. While its content tends to be less fluffy than your average Bozell material, AIM is notorious for pushing quite a lot of its own insanity.
==Crankery==
*AIM was one of the biggest pushers of Vince Foster conspiracy theories.Here they are still going at it in 2004. They launched an FOIA suit against the National Park Service in 1999, in an attempt to get hold of some pictures of Foster, and lost.AIM v. National Park Serv. In a 1999 interview with Richard Mellon Scaife (who conveniently happens to be a funder of AIMConspiracy Theories in American History, ed. Peter Knight, p. 645 ), Scaife pushed the Foster conspiracy theory along with the "Clinton body count list," a staple on the chain e-mail forward circuit.Scaife interview and Snopes on the Clinton body count.
*They also push conspiracy theories revolving around a socialist world government, enacted through the United NationsThe Plan for a Socialist World Government and a North American Union.Accuracy in Media Exposes North American Union "Conspiracy" AIDS in Africa is apparently a "manufactured crisis" perpetuated by the UN.The Post and the Phony AIDS Crisis These conspiracies also often involve George Soros, somehow.
*They promote Intelligent Design, even citing that bastion of scientific integrity the Discovery Institute.Silencing Science
*Anti-environmentalist conspiracy theories and denialism are popular topics, including myths about DDT and Rachel Carson,Al Gore and Rachel Carson as well as global warming denial.Climategate, the Green Dragon, and the End of ChristianityBush Promotes Hillary's Global Policies
*Anti-gay bigotry, including homosexual recruitment conspiracies.Homosexual recruitment in schools
*Birtherism, of course, and they're still going at it.Let Them Eat Birth Certificates
*Cliff Kincaid, director of their Center for Investigative Journalism, is also the president of America's Survival, another UN-conspiracy mongering organization.Kincaid's bio at America's Survival. See also the SPLC report on Kincaid.
*Their article on CASA De MarylandCASA de Maryland: The Illegals’ ACORN is illustrated with what looks like a parody of a 1960s-1970s conspiracy theorist flow chart.CASA de Maryland: A Case Study in Subversion and Public Corruption at the Highest Levels
==Accuracy in Academia==
In 1985, Reed Irvine founded Accuracy in Academia (AIA) to counter the bias of "liberal academia" and fight oppressive political correctness. Yes, AIA is just as batshit insane as its parent organization. It exists to "inform" students about such dangers as creeping Sharia in the classroomShariah Schools and the PC War on Christmas,Politically Correct Christmases Past & Present and to hector professors they don't like.
==External links==
*Accuracy in Media
*Accuracy in Academia
*Conservative "University" – a PragerU clone
*AIM at Right Wing Watch
*AIM entry at SourceWatch
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