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On May 26, Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration’s anti-fraud task force had recovered $160 billion in COVID-19 relief funds, student aid, and small-business loans. This is taxpayer money that was supposed to go to deserving recipients but instead went to scammers and con artists. Sadly but not unpredictably, this major announcement was not covered by any of the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) on their evening or morning news programs. Several high-profile…

The journalists appear to have lost their enthusiasm for exposing police brutality, if their attitude toward Henry Nowak is any indication. As of June 1, left-wing cable (CNN, MSNBC) and broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS) networks have completely ignored the gruesome murder and alleged police abuse of White British teenager Henry Nowak. MRC analysts looked through Nexis and SnapStream transcripts going back to December 4, 2025 for any mention of Nowak on any of the left-leaning cable or broadcast…

Three major outlets experienced sudden swings in their audiences this year—changes that align almost perfectly with how often they were promoted on some of the biggest news aggregators. Newsweek’s traffic plunged in April after steady promotion the month prior. Qatari-backed Al Jazeera saw its readership explode in March. And leftist outlet The Minnesota Star Tribune rode a steep wave upward in January before bottoming out again the next month. The timing was too consistent to ignore. Al…

Stephen Colbert was well into his farewell media tour when he told GQ, “I think I'm more conservative than people think.” However, according to an aggregation of previous NewsBusters studies and quote packages, that is far from true. Since NewsBusters began counting jokes in January 2023, 87 percent of Colbert's political jokes have targeted conservatives. Likewise, since September 2022, more than 99 percent of his political guests have been liberals. MRC President David Bozell said in a…

Season 51 of NBC’s Saturday Night Live recently came to an end, and it was considerably more liberal than Season 50. A new NewsBusters study has found that 91 percent of the season’s Weekend Update jokes were directed at conservatives, while 83 percent of its cold open political characters were conservatives or Republicans. For this study, NewsBusters analysts examined all 20 shows of the season from October 4, 2025, through May 16, 2026.   Weekend Update MRC analysts found that Weekend…

On Thursday, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement will hold a hearing into the “dangerous consequences” of sanctuary city policies that will primarily focus on the actions of George Soros-backed Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano.  Back on May 7, the Justice Department announced it is investigating Descano’s preferential treatment of “illegal alien” criminal defendants.  The head of the DOJ’s civil rights division, Assistant…

Apple News in April avoided its self-proclaimed role as a news aggregator and instead took on the role of an anti-Trump administration propaganda outlet, heavily promoting articles from leftist media over right-leaning media on the two most prominent issues of the month by a margin of 99 to 3. In April, much of Apple News’s coverage revolved around the two major issues of the month, the Iran conflict and the Trump administration’s immigration efforts, both of which the digital news gatekeeper…

Whenever there’s a threat to George Soros’s regime, you can bet that a number of his grantees will swarm like bees to protect the hive. Enter the disgraced, extremist Southern Poverty Law Center. A number of lefty organizations and activists penned an open letter to leadership at Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable and Charles Schwab Affiliate DAFgiving360 lambasting them for halting donations to the SPLC following a massive fraud scandal. The Department of Justice announced April 21…

On April 28, federal authorities swept through over 20 locations in Minneapolis as part of a fraud investigation into charities – including the infamous Quality Learing [sic] Center – that were largely owned by Somalis who stand accused of ripping off the state of Minnesota.  So, how much time did the broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening news shows devote to this big win for the citizens of Minnesota?  Just 125 seconds.  MRC analysts looked at the week (April 28 - May 5) of coverage since the…

Thursday saw an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with the House passing a bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), capping 76 days of tumult for government employees in agencies such as the Coast Guard, TSA, and Secret Service. But on the lead network evening newscasts, a Media Research Center analysis found only five percent of their shutdown coverage blamed Democrats for opposing any further funding of deportations. MRC analysts scanned every mention…

Sorry Rachel Maddow, but radical lefties thumping their chests about protests advocating “workers over billionaires” while getting funding from America’s most notorious billionaire is the most contradictory antithesis of “grassroots.” As leftist groups across the country (including Hawaii) prepare for a wave of 750+ communist-style protests against President Donald Trump and the bourgeoisies dubbed “May Day Strong,” MRC Business investigated the nearly 500 groups that currently make up the…

An 11-count grand jury indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center exposed serious allegations against one of the country’s most radical left-wing organizations. However, its visibility across the Big Four News Apps, which collectively reach well over 100 million Americans every week, told a different story. On Apr. 21, 2026, a grand jury in Alabama indicted the SPLC for “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money…

On February 28, the United States and Israel unleashed Operation Epic Fury, a coordinated combat operation against a radical Iranian regime which has threatened America for decades, terrorizing its neighbors and even massacring its own people. President Donald Trump explained his war reasoning in a Truth Social post, citing the historical context of the dangerous regime and insisting “this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon.” As the war progressed, the three major broadcast…

The April 21 indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) doesn’t just threaten a major organ of the left’s lawfare machine; it also puts in jeopardy one of the corporate news media’s favorite sources of activist data. For decades, but particularly since the first Trump administration, the SPLC has enjoyed a perverse symbiotic relationship with the left-wing press. Their absurd “hate group” designations provided the media with ammunition against their right-wing targets, and the…

On April 14, Resistance activist/grifter Olivia Troye — who has spent years cashing in on her role as a former aide to then-Vice President Mike Pence in the first Trump administration — revealed she would run for Congress in one of Virginia’s now-gerrymandered districts and has a chance of winning, thanks to at least 340 appearances on far-left, elite media cable channels CNN and MS NOW between 2020 and her campaign announcement. Media Research Center analysts searched Nexis transcripts and…