Keir Simmons

July 16, 2026

Strait Up Wrong: NBC’s Keir Simmons Misses the Mark Framing the Battle for Hormuz

NBC’s veteran international correspondent Keir Simmons should, at this point in his career, possess the tact and journalistic know-how to provide contextual, responsible reporting to viewers. This is especially true when reporting on an issue driving public discourse in the United States, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran. But Simmons’ July 15 report on NBC News Now failed in this regard.
June 24, 2024

MSNBC Mislabels Northern Israeli Communities ‘Settlements’

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Keir Simmons erroneously referred to locations which Hezbollah targeted within internationally-recognized Israeli territory as "settlements." While MSNBC agreed the terminology was wrong, the network declined to broadcast a correction.
October 4, 2020

MSNBC Corrects on Settlements, Oslo Accords

CAMERA prompts corrections at MSNBC's "Morning Joe" after Keir Simmons erroneously reported "Over the past two decades over 600,000 Jewish settlers have built communities in parts of east Jerusalem and the West Bank, land promised to the Palestinians for a future state."