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Yahoo News demonstrated in March that it cannot manage to take a balanced approach to news, instead presenting a bipolar selection of top stories predominantly from the left compared to a smattering from the right. Yahoo News’s bipolar nature was on full display in March. The Media Research Center tracked the top 20 daily stories each morning during the month and found that the news aggregator overwhelmingly promoted stories from the left, while giving short shrift to stories from right-…

The elitist media are refusing to report on the heinous murders committed by illegal immigrants – probably because they don’t want to give any credence to the necessity of the Trump administration’s beefed-up enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. In just the last two weeks, we’ve seen four high-profile cases (some involving Biden and Obama-era illegals) who have committed horrific crimes. One of the cases involved a gruesome video of an illegal Haitian immigrant killing his victim…

Since Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz sounded the alarm in January about the rampant Medicare fraud inside California’s hospice system, ABC and NBC have not spent a second on their flagship morning and evening newscasts informing viewers of the billions of dollars scammed from U.S. taxpayers. CBS News, however, had a different idea and, while it took roughly two months, they arrived on March 10 with stories on CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News. All…

As ABC News’ The View headed into their Spring Break this week, they kicked off the important midterm election year (2026) with a parade of liberal guests espousing their view points. A Media Research Center study documenting which political views The View allowed to be expressed on the show discovered that 27 guests delivered liberal view points versus only one conservative. What made the breakdown particularly troublesome for The View was the recent scrutiny they found themselves under from…

Google News all but excluded right-leaning news outlets from coverage of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, with 183 left-leaning stories to just six right-leaning ones.  In March, war updates dominated Google News, with 239 stories highlighting the conflict in Iran and its proxies in neighboring countries. But the digital news gatekeeper excluded every single right-leaning news outlet, with the exception of a handful of Fox News stories. In fact, out of all the stories Google News promoted in its…

On April 2, The New York Times published a surprising exposé about ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising machine: “ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned.” But while The Times’s willingness to break this embarrassing story about the DNC raised more than a few eyebrows, the ensuing total lack of coverage on left-wing broadcast and cable TV networks has come as less of a surprise. MRC analysts examined all coverage on major liberal broadcast (ABC…

Apple News is guilty of more than just suppressing right-leaning news. It ran more headlines from left-leaning outlets in March than any of the other Big Four News Apps, solidifying its place as the most radically left of them all. MRC made this major discovery by analyzing Apple News's top 20 daily stories each morning throughout March and using the independent media firm AllSides to evaluate each outlet's bias. Apple News promoted more left-leaning stories than Google News, Microsoft’s MSN…

Google News prioritized keeping The New York Times afloat over promoting stories exposing an alleged Democrat fraudster and congresswoman who set the modern record for bilking more from taxpayers than any other member of the House of Representatives in over 100 years. Google News, Apple News and other news aggregators represent to their users that the information delivered to their phones, computers and devices reliably reflects the news. Google, however, chose to suppress news about Rep.…

PolitiFact was demoralized by the idea that Donald Trump was re-elected in 2024, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped rigging their “fact checking” apparatus against the Republicans. What’s truly amazing about the first quarter of 2026 is that the number of occasions they have rated Democrats as “Mostly False” or worse is at zero. A NewsBusters analysis of all the “Truth-O-Meter” ratings of elected or appointed officials from January 1 through March 31, 2025 found the Democrats drew 11 “…

While ABC, CBS, and NBC have shown scant interest — just three minutes and 43 seconds — on their lead morning and evening shows in covering University of Loyola Chicago student Sheridan Gorman’s brutal March 19 murder, CNN and MS NOW have been even less interested in reporting on the murder allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien from Venezuela as neither has dedicated a single on-air story to this crime. While there hasn’t been a single news report or dedicated segment to Gorman and the…

President Donald Trump’s voter ID proposal, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act proposal, is popular by a wide margin.  But despite the President’s persistence (on social media and at public events) to get it passed in the Senate, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks haven’t given the SAVE Act any oxygen, as they’ve mostly ignored it on their evening and morning news programs. NewsBusters has been tracking coverage of the SAVE Act since its passage in the House on…

Looking to add additional content to the predownloaded news app on the iPhone? The Apple News+ subscription serviceprovides plenty of bias and leaves much to be desired. Potential subscribers to Apple News+ might wonder whether shelling out $12.99 per month to get what Apple itself describes as “Access [to] top stories from over 500 leading publications” is worth it. Media Research Center researchers looked at the publications that Apple says are included in the monthly fee to determine if…

In the first week of the Iran war, 94 percent of the jokes from the late night comedians about the war targeted the American side. By the third week, that percentage jumped to 97 percent, according to a new Media Research Center study. NewsBusters analysts examined 19 episodes from Monday, March 16, through Thursday, March 19, including three from CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and four each from ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and NBC’s Late Night with…

UPDATE, March 24, 11:00 a.m. Eastern: On Tuesday, CBS Mornings was the only flagship network morning news show to cover the arrest of a suspect in Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman’s murder and that he’s an illegal immigrant battling tuberculosis from Venezuela. With the 89-second piece, that puts CBS’s overall at two minutes and one second. ABC remained at 79 seconds courtesy of the single story on Monday’s World News Tonight and NBC stood pat at a scant 23 seconds from…

Yahoo News is the most fanatical of the Big Four News Apps, more extreme than its counterparts Apple News, Google News and Microsoft’s MSN.  Not only did Yahoo News more heavily favor left-leaning outlets than the others, it also more aggressively promoted articles from some of the most radical media outlets in America. As the fourth most-widely viewed news site in America, its bias and reach have an enormous impact on American politics and culture.  The Media Research Center tracked Yahoo…