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Causes: Arts & Culture, Media & Communications, Printing & Publishing, Radio
Mission: Accuracy in media, inc. Was founded in 1969 to monitor the accuracy of news reporting activities by the media, promote accuracy, fairness and balance in news reporting.
Programs: The accuracy in media report has continued to publicize and expose specific examples of media misreporting, including instances where the media have completely ignored important stories or reported them in such biased terms that media consumers received a skewed impression of the issue that bears little resemblance to the facts.
speakers bureau receives a yearly grant from a single sponsor to support expenditures for sponsoring and organizing seminars in which noted speakers lecture on biases in the news media. This year was the program's last year of operation.
accuracy in media representatives have raised the organization's profile considerably by exhibiting its products, including publication of books and merchandise, at numerous conventions around the country, which also provides the opportunity to interact with members of various associations with similar interests.
other programs that provide support of organization's mission