Editing Accuracy in Media (section)

===Vince Foster conspiracy theory===
AIM received a substantial amount of funding from [[Richard Mellon Scaife]] who paid [[Christopher W. Ruddy]] to investigate allegations that President [[Bill Clinton]] was connected to the suicide of [[Vince Foster]].<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Trudy |last=Lieberman |url=http://archives.cjr.org/year/96/2/foster.asp |title=The Vincent Foster Factory|magazine=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |date=April 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040223081215/http://archives.cjr.org/year/96/2/foster.asp |archive-date=February 23, 2004}}</ref> AIM contended that "Foster was murdered",<ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A2212_0_4_0_C/ AIM Report: Evidence Proving Foster Was Murdered] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914082336/http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A2212_0_4_0_C/ |date=September 14, 2006 }} July 1, 2001</ref> which is contrary to three independent reports including one by [[Kenneth Starr]].<ref name="Starrreport">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/docs/foster.htm Full text] of the report on the 1993 death of White House counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr., compiled by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr. After an exhaustive three-year investigation, Starr reaffirmed that Foster's death was a suicide</ref> AIM faulted the media for not picking up on the conspiracy,<ref name="evidence">[http://www.realnews247.com/accuracy_in_media_vince_foster.htm Vincent Foster Murder Evidence] Accuracy in Media.</ref> and applied itself for [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) disclosure of Foster's death-scene photographs. Its suit to compel disclosure was denied by the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia|District Court of Columbia]] in a summary judgment, unanimously affirmed by the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia]].<ref name="Cann2005">{{cite book|last=Cann|first=Steven J.|title=Administrative Law|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6V_lVpZGyIIC&pg=PA246|year=2005|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-1-4129-1396-6|page=246|chapter=National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish 124 Ct. 1570 (2004)}}</ref>

AIM credited much of its reporting on the Foster case to Ruddy.<ref>See: Notes Section for "Chris Ruddy" [http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2001/6.html The Case Against James T. Riady], Accuracy in Media 2001.</ref> Yet, his work was called a "hoax" and "discredited" by conservatives such as [[Ann Coulter]],<ref>"Even if Christopher Ruddy's ''[[The Strange Death of Vincent Foster]]'' was considered a conservative hoax book, it was also conservatives who discredited it." Chapter Six Endnote 105, pp. 224–225, ''[[Slander (book)|Slander]]'', [[Ann Coulter]].</ref> it was also disputed by the ''[[American Spectator]]'', which caused Scaife to end his funding of the [[Arkansas Project]] with the publisher.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaife092998.htm Anti-Clinton Billionaire Goes Before Grand Jury]'' Washington Post'', September 29, 1998,</ref> As [[CNN]] explained on February 28, 1997, "The [Starr] report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup", but "despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and First Lady tried to cover it up."<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/02/23/starr.report/ Report: Starr Rules Out Foul Play In Foster Death] CNN February 23, 1997</ref>