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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…

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…

Since February 14, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been largely shut down after funding lapsed because Democrats demanded changes to President Trump’s deportation policies, leaving government workers such as TSA agents to work without pay and turn to food banks. A Media Research Center study found that, since the start of the DHS shutdown, only eight percent – or 125 seconds – of the 26 minutes and 22 seconds on the shutdown across the flagship evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and…

Last December, after revelations of massive fraud in Somali community in Minneapolis, President Trump sent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers into Minneapolis for “Operation Metro Surge,” arresting illegal immigrants with criminal records, displeasing the pro-amnesty press and far-left activist mobs. Media ire flamed up January 7, 2026 after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good in her car as she interfered in an immigration enforcement operation. After giving her an…

On Monday, President Donald Trump made it very clear that passing his very popular voter ID bill – the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act – is his “number one priority.” This comes on the heels of his Truth Social statement on Sunday that he will “not sign other Bills until this is passed.” NewsBusters previously reported on Friday that the broadcast networks have completely ignored the SAVE America Act legislation since it passed the House on February 11. There has also been a…

EXCLUSIVE: As Apple News faces relentless criticism for systematically erasing right-leaning sources from its app, Microsoft’s MSN has quietly pulled a similar stunt. But unlike Apple’s brazen elimination of right-leaning outlets, MSN camouflages its censorship behind a thin veil of human interest stories from Fox News. When accounting for MSN’s shell game, the results are similar to prior studies by the Media Research Center: MSN only promoted 20 genuine political stories from right-leaning…

The late night comedians reacted to the start of the Iran War with not only a week of disapproval, but also a lopsided joke count. According to a new Media Research Center study, the hosts told 94 percent of their war-related jokes about the United States and our allies. Analysts examined 20 episodes of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from Monday…

What do you do if you are the networks and President Donald Trump has pushed a proposal (like the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on voter ID) that enjoys over 70 percent support?  If you are fair, you’d cover it.  If you are opposed to all things Trump, you could savage it, to try to bring its popularity down.  Or you could pretend it doesn’t even exist.  So, how much time have the networks devoted to this very popular Trump administration proposal?  Zero seconds. MRC…

Apple News blinked after an MRC Free Speech America report that called out the app for running 620 top stories from left-leaning and other outlets while running exactly zero top stories from right-leaning outlets in the month of January went viral.  Since the story went viral Feb. 11, 2026 following FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson’s letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook about the digital news gatekeeper’s leftist bias, the news app has run eight articles from right-leaning outlets (2%) in its daily…

On early Sunday morning in Austin, Texas, a gunman fired into crowds of pedestrians from his moving vehicle, wounding 14 people and ultimately killing three. The shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, a Muslim immigrant from Senegal, was wearing a hoodie that read, “Property of Allah.” Left-wing cable networks CNN and MS NOW have reported all of the above details at least once — all except the fact that Diagne was a Muslim.  MRC analysts looked at all coverage on CNN and MS NOW of the March 1, 2026…

On Wednesday, bombshell news broke that former President Joe Biden’s FBI had obtained phone records on current FBI Director Kash Patel and former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023 when they were private citizens.  That led to the FBI firing 10 employees.   So how much time did ABC, CBS, NBC devote to these developments in the lawfare case waged against President Donald Trump and his administration?  Zero seconds.  MRC analysts looked at the morning and evening shows…

Google made sure its viewers knew its stance on President Donald Trump’s record-breaking State of the Union address with a flurry of elitist media hits against his speech on Wednesday morning.  In its coverage of Trump’s comments, Google News promoted eight leftist media outlets, while denying reporting from any right-leaning media outlets. Google painted a subtle but clear picture of its rejection of the president and his policies as it pushed reporting from outlets like The New York Times,…

As eyes worldwide were turning to Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics, Apple News editors pushed stories on immigration — including ICE and the Department of Homeland Security — relying on leftist and center outlets while excluding right-leaning media altogether.  Over the first two weeks of February 2026, Apple News ran 57 headlines, all from leftist or center news outlets, about immigration, ICE and the threat to DHS funding. Apple News’s ICE, DHS and immigration coverage accounted for 20…