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If you were paying attention, you would notice a glaring case of two logically incoherent media narratives at play. Specifically, skyrocketing inflation under Biden during a midterm election year was considered a “transitory” blip, but a more tempered inflation rate under Trump during another midterm election year, despite a major war, was cast as setting the economy on the precipice of a complete disaster.  MRC Graphic According to…

Google News highlighted opinion pieces that overwhelmingly pushed a leftist narrative and are negative toward right-leaning policies, politicians and people. MRC Graphic The best description for the majority of the opinion pieces Google News chose to feature since November of 2025 is anti-Trump. Selected headlines tell the tale better than any deeper analysis could. For example, from The New York Times and featured by Google News on…

Image Media Research Center With far-left DSA-backed candidates like Abdul El-Sayed eking out Democratic primary victories in crucial swing states, broadcast journalists have taken on the arduous task of sanitizing the radicals’ reputations ahead of the November midterm elections. The first order of business: striking politically radioactive terms like “socialist” and “far-left” from the broadcast media lexicon, in favor…

MRC original graphic UPDATE, 8:02 p.m. Eastern: Late Tuesday, the CBS Evening News finally broke the blackout on the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC, with not one, but two segments for a hefty two minutes and 52 seconds.Anchor Tony Dokoupil said the texts from Fauci’s government-issued cell phone “offer[ed] a rare window into the private conversations of our public health leaders at the height of the crisis and on an issue…

MRC Original Graphic On August 5, Vice President J.D. Vance announced - at a roundtable meeting - that the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force had uncovered and halted billions of taxpayer dollars being wasted on fraudulent spending. The amount of money saved was jaw-dropping. The Vice President broke down the numbers in an op-ed for the August 5 Washington Post: “Since Inauguration Day, our administration has taken a sledgehammer to…

The new Yahoo 100 “trending” list is generated from a host of biased sources: Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s Bing, Yahoo’s own data and Yahoo editors. It is no surprise, then, that the content leading its list each morning contained only 3% right-leaning stories over the last three months.  MRC Image Early in 2026, Yahoo launched a new artificial intelligence (AI), Yahoo Scout, to help power its Yahoo 100 list. The Yahoo 100 trending…

MRC original graphic This week, the “Big Three” Networks and News Apps shielded fellow elitist liberal, Dr. Tony Fauci, largely ignoring bombshell revelations from his pandemic-era diaries released Saturday by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) before Wednesday’s Senate hearing and, following the proceedings, promulgating Fauci’s preferred framing of a “deep, partisan,” and “fiery” affair foisted upon him by Republicans.A Media Research Center…

Season 29 of ABC’s The View came ended last week amid an ongoing battle with the Federal Communications Commission over their purported status as a “bona fide news program,” which called into question their bias, their content, and their adherence to the so-called equal time rule for political candidates. Compared to a previous long-term study of The View’s guests, a new NewsBusters study discovered the number of guests to express a conservative political opinion more than doubled… to five,…

Media Research Center (Original) MRC Original: If there’s one thing that stands out whenever Abdul El-Sayed is pressed about his radical positions, it’s his smile. His nearly perfect teeth, neatly trimmed beard and laid-back black hair rarely seem out of place, no matter how hard-hitting the question. As it turns out, El-Sayed has plenty to smile about: he is leading in the polls for the Democratic Party primary for a Senate seat in…

Before the originally scheduled 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner was postponed after a failed assassination attempt against President Trump, there was opposition from liberal circles that the usual tradition of having a comedian perform was being replaced by mentalist Oz Pearlman. With the dinner being rescheduled for Friday, NewsBusters decided to investigate why these liberal critics were upset and found a noteworthy discrepancy in the WHCD’s comedy routines when a Republican is…

Image 2026-07-21-MRCGraphic-TruckDrivers3 In just the last three weeks there have been three heinous truck driving crashes that have gone unreported by ABC, CBS, NBC. Why? Probably because they all involved illegals (or in one case a diversity lottery winner) who entered the U.S. during the Biden years. The elitist media types at the broadcast networks don’t want to give the Trump administration any credit for their…

Google News propped up stories from Qatari-tied media outlet Al Jazeera in what has become a bit of a trend for the news aggregator. MRC Graphic The Media Research Center collected data that shows Google News promoted Al Jazeera stories 125% more from May to June. The increase in promotion on the tech giant’s pages correlated with Al Jazeera’s noticeable 6% jump in traffic from May to June when many of the most visited U.S. media…

The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary last year (and the show’s first year deprived of taxpayer funding) with a clip package of its coverage of various historical events, while declaring the program had traditionally strove to be “even-handed to a fault.” If that were ever true, the current version of the show, co-anchored by Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, certainly can’t make that claim.A new Media Research Center study tracked and labeled every…

Remarkably, it’s been a year since the infamous FBI letter about Jeffrey Epstein that triggered a torrent of TV news coverage ghoulishly seeking to tie President Trump to the billionaire sex criminal’s life of ruin. In that time, a Media Research Center analysis has found ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted a gargantuan 1,627 minutes across their flagship morning, evening, and Sunday morning political shows. Put another way, the “Big Three” have devoted an…

For the late night comedy shows, the first half of 2026 was defined by the final airing in May of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But the political agenda of Colbert and his late night colleagues remained unchanged in January through June this year: No one expressing conservative views was ever granted a guest slot on a late night comedy show while 112 liberals were awarded guest appearances. This study looked at the five daily late night…