Today's Highlights: What MRC's Media Watchdogs are Saying

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media. 

 

Catherine Mortensen
January 15th, 2026 12:01 AM

Nets Mildly Protesting FBI Raid of WashPost Reporter’s Home, For Now

Earlier today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson pursuant to a warrant related to a classified documents case. Coverage on the broadcast network evening news was muted, at best. 

Jorge Bonilla
January 14th, 2026 11:42 PM
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CNN Democrat: Civil Disobedience Is Legal!

On CNN This Morning, Democrat Joel Rubin, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, claims that "civil disobedience is legal." By definition, civil "disobedience" is the breaking of law, and the willingness to accept the consequences thereof, ostensibly for a higher moral purpose.

Mark Finkelstein
January 14th, 2026 10:52 PM

Morning Nets Again Hurl Anti-ICE Slop, Take Protesters at Their Word

Wednesday marked another day of tiresome narratives across the broadcast networks and their flagship morning newscasts that smeared Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents, fixating on the “clashes intensifying” and “escalating” without explaining why federal law enforcement had deployed tear gas and other deterrents. Fireworks? Nevermind! Hitting vehicles? Not a concern!

Curtis Houck
January 14th, 2026 7:05 PM

Renee Good Endangered Her Life — and Yours

Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting — then years of elevated criminal violence — should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George Floyd, Good’s tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose, with the radical activists who then called for…

Daniel McCarthy
January 14th, 2026 4:33 PM

‘Obnoxious! Horrible!’ The View Melts Down Over Trump Finger Flip

Wednesday’s edition of The View featured an exercise in being unable to temper expectations to confirm with the reality and over reacting for political points. America was almost a full year into President Trump’s second term in office and the ABC co-hosts were still stuck in 2016 in terms of gripes about Trump - the man who’s crassness helped get him elected - being ‘unpresidential…

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 14th, 2026 4:26 PM

Gutfeld & Watters RIP Tarlov's Narrative On ICE Protests On 'The Five'

It's been almost a full week since the shooting involving an ICE agent in Minneapolis, and the story shows no signs of going away. Also here to stay for the foreseeable future is the left wing media narrative that ICE is breaking the law, and the protesters that confront ICE agents with automobiles, bottles, rocks and more, are just innocent, average law abiding, concerned citizens looking to…

Steve Malzberg
January 14th, 2026 4:14 PM

PolitiFact: Renee Good's No 'Domestic Terrorist,' Just Jan. 6 Rioters

The left-wingers at PolitiFact used the breaking news of Renee Good's death for several "fact checkers" defending her activism and attacking Trump. When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Good as a "domestic terrorist," many liberal-media operatives objected, including those "independent fact-checkers."

Tim Graham
January 14th, 2026 3:26 PM

Scarborough Compares ICE To The Soviet Union And Putin

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough continued his network’s inglorious habit of portraying ICE as some sort of cartoon villain. In this case, Scarborough compared ICE to both the Soviet Union and today’s Russia under Vladimir Putin while talking beside footage of an operation at a gas station that he ignored the context of.

Alex Christy
January 14th, 2026 2:20 PM

Elite, Liberal Journos GO BALLISTIC Over Dokoupil’s Trump Interview

It was all-but a foregone conclusion that elite, liberal journalists on the “media” beat would be throwing a collective tizzy Tuesday over CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil scoring an interview with President Trump. Over nearly 13 minutes, the two discussed the death of Renee Good, grocery prices immigration operations, Iran, and even the role of automation in working-class jobs…

Curtis Houck
January 14th, 2026 2:12 PM

NBC’s Laura Jarrett Lectures SCOTUS Conservatives on Trans Sports Bans

NBC was the lone network evening newscast to report on the hearing on transgender bans in school sports before the United States Supreme Court. The brief report, however, quickly devolved into a lecture from legal correspondent Laura Jarrett lamenting conservatives’ position on continued attempts to erase women in sports.

Jorge Bonilla
January 14th, 2026 11:33 AM

MS NOW's Katy Tur Frets ICE Recruiting People Who 'Like Guns'

While discussing the shooting of left-wing activist Renee Good as she almost ran over an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, MS NOW host Katy Tur worried on her Friday show that DHS recruiting Americans who "like guns" and prof wrestling contributes to violent actions by ICE.

Brad Wilmouth
January 14th, 2026 11:30 AM

Only 4 of 840 Stories: Google News’s Six-Week Blockade of Minn. Fraud

EXCLUSIVE: For six weeks, Google News quietly worked to throttle coverage of widespread fraud allegations in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota, an exclusive Media Research Center analysis found.

Luis Cornelio
January 14th, 2026 10:33 AM

CNN's Spin on Inflation: 'Falling' for Biden, 'Persistent' for Trump

The internet is forever! At least that’s a concept most people on the internet besides CNN seem to grasp. On Tuesday, CNN made its double standard on inflation so nakedly apparent it needs an NC-17 rating. Inflation under Biden was "falling," but under Trump it's "persistent....as high prices continue to weigh on many Americans."

Joseph Vazquez
January 14th, 2026 9:40 AM