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
December 22nd, 2025 12:01 AM

RUN IT BACK: Univision Gives Kamala Harris Another Softball Interview

Univision gave then-Vice President Kamala Harris a very soft spot to land on over the course of the 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns. With speculation about 2028 already underway, the former VP goes back to a familiar haunt for familial treatment.

Jorge Bonilla
December 21st, 2025 9:11 PM

ABC News Breathlessly Joins Fake ‘Cognitive Decline’ Drumbeat

A pattern emerges: after years of ignoring Joe Biden’s glaring mental decline, the elitist media want to manufacture an early cognitive decline narrative with regard to President Donald Trump. We earlier spotlighted CNN’s attempt: here’s ABC’s.

Jorge Bonilla
December 21st, 2025 7:24 PM

Scott Jennings Dunks on CNN Libs’ Sudden Interest in POTUS Decline

After four years of pretending President Joe Biden didn’t suffer severe cognitive decline, there appears to be a sudden desire to scrutinize every utterance made by President Donald Trump, in the hopes of finding a kernel of dementia upon which to seize. CNN’s Scott Jennings rightly called that out on today’s State of the Union panel.

Jorge Bonilla
December 21st, 2025 6:14 PM

NY Times, WashPost Set Hair on Fire Over Ban on Trans 'Care' for Youth

Both The New York Times and The Washington Post uncorked their alarm on the front page on Friday when the Trump administration declared it would ban federal funding from any hospital that provides gender-denying care to minors.

Tim Graham
December 21st, 2025 4:04 PM

Laura Ingraham Calls For Firing Of Providence And Brown Officials

Following the deadly mass shooting at Brown University on December 13th, it took five full days before police in Salem, New Hampshire found the body of Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a Portuguese national, and former student at Brown, who had also shot and killed MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro last Monday in his home in Brookline Massachusetts, in a storage unit in Salem. Disturbing press…

Steve Malzberg
December 21st, 2025 12:11 PM

PBS Show: Only 'Tinpot Dictators' Would Add Name to the Kennedy Center

PBS used to call its Friday night journalists roundtable Washington Week In Review. It's now Washington Week with The Atlantic, but it could be called Trashing Trump's Week In Review. Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center caused an all-night freakout. On the PBS News Hour, David Brooks compared Trump to Stalin and Mao. On this show, it was just "tinpot…

Tim Graham
December 21st, 2025 6:51 AM

When NPR Hates: 'Vehemently Anti-Trans, Anti-LGBTQI+, Anti-Abortion'

In the Biden years, National "Public" Radio acted as a supine publicist for leftists with strong opinions on gender -- starting with HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel [Richard] Levine. On Friday, NPR global health correspondent Jonathan Lambert was putting out the warning siren with this headline: "America's new top health diplomat has strong opinions on abortion and gender."

Tim Graham
December 20th, 2025 8:20 PM

Magazines Dare to Blame Israel, USA, Jews for Bondi Beach Massacre

The Bondi Beach massacre of Jews celebrating Hannukah resulted in two nasty blame-the-victim pieces, one in the far-left The Nation (no surprise, considering the author) and one in Time magazine, desperately blaming everyone else but the actual Islamic perpetrators of the murders. The Nation’s Dave Zirin, supposed “sports editor” of the far-left rag, spends much of…

Clay Waters
December 20th, 2025 4:42 PM

PBS Accuses Trump of 'Vilifying' Transgender People

On PBS’s Friday edition of Amanpour and Company, guest host Bianna Golodryga didn’t bother to even pretend to care about journalistic standards as she interviewed the ACLU’s Chase Strangio about President Trump and red states allegedly “vilifying” transgender people.

Alex Christy
December 20th, 2025 2:19 PM

Newsmax Has a Happy Christmas

Well. There’s no Scrooge-like “Bah! Humbug!” for Newsmax this Christmas. 

Jeffrey Lord
December 20th, 2025 1:30 PM

Colbert's Christmas Cartoon Has Trump, ICE Arrest Santa

Every year, CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s final The Late Show episode before Christmas features a politically-inspired cartoon meant to make his liberal audience feel all warm and fuzzy inside. With liberals feeling extra sad this year, Thursday’s cartoon featured President Trump and various administration officials arresting Santa Claus and his elves only for them to turn the tables at the…

Alex Christy
December 20th, 2025 12:06 PM

Brooks Claims 'Gigantic Portraits' Of Trump Remind Him Of Stalin, Mao

New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour talking head David Brooks loves himself some Stalin and Mao analogies. Back in May, he compared Elon Musk and DOGE to the murderous dictators. This Friday, he compared President Trump, the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, and “gigantic portraits” of Trump to the communist tyrants and claimed it reminded him…

Alex Christy
December 20th, 2025 9:40 AM

Poll: PolitiFact Readers 'Lie of the Year' Is 'No Starvation' In Gaza

In a ranked-choice poll of more than 1,000 PolitiFact readers, the highest-ranking claim chosen as the year’s most serious falsehood went to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July assertion of "no starvation" in Gaza. In other words, the "Gaza Health…

Tim Graham
December 20th, 2025 6:37 AM