Bias by the Minute

MRC analysts looked at ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS evening, morning and Sunday roundtable news shows from June 18 to the morning of September 10 and found a grand total of 4 minutes, 2 seconds spent on the Biden mental decline hearings. 

From Friday (August 22) evening through Monday (August 26) morning ABC, CBS, NBC spent 17 minutes and 21 seconds on Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, 0 seconds on the Florida truck crash. 

ABC, CBS, NBC censor deadly crash in Florida allegedly caused by illegal immigrant trucker.

The broadcast networks have buried former President Joe Biden’s autopen scandal. 

Despite the growing trend of left-wing extremist violence during the first six months of the Trump administration (including the DC Jewish Museum shooting, the firebombing of a GOP building in Albuquerque, and the anti-deportation riots Los Angeles), talking heads on TV news remained reluctant to acknowledge the existence of the American far left. However, those same journalists had no qualms…

MRC analysts looked at ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening, morning and magazine news programs, from June 18 (the day of the hearing) through the morning of June 23, and found there was NO coverage of the “autopen” hearings.  

MRC analysts looked at ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening and morning news programs, as well as PBS’s News Hour from May 13 through the morning of May 19 and found they spent a grand total of 7 minutes and 16 seconds on the reporting from Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson. 

From April 1 through the morning of April 22 ABC, CBS, NBC jammed their evening and morning shows with a total of 143 minutes, 24 seconds of coverage to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 

This past week, the Trump administration revealed more incriminating evidence about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien recently deported to El Salvador despite a withholding of removal to that country. Yet liberal cable networks CNN and MSNBC have mostly ignored the latest developments, and instead have continued to obfuscate the truth about this so-called “Maryland man.”

Broadcast networks (ABC,CBS,NBC) didn’t care about the trial of Rachel Morin’s killer. 

Over the past two weeks, broadcast networks were utterly consumed by news of the Trump administration’s tariffs, to the degree that the topic took up more than a third of their flagship morning and evening newscasts’ total run time. Yet during that same time period, these networks spared barely any time at all to cover some of the positive economic news, such as the declining Consumer Price…

Last week, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent nearly 100 minutes covering leaked messages from a private Signal chat for Trump administration officials, in just the first 96 hours after the messages were published. But those same networks spent only 13 minutes covering the actual military operation that was discussed in those leaked messages.

From March 26 through March 27 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC devoted a total of 119 minutes, 18 seconds to the arrest of Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk, but just 11 minutes, 42 seconds to the capture of a top MS-13 leader. 

In 32 days of coverage (February 8 - March 12) ABC, CBS, NBC (on their evening and morning news shows) spent a total of (4 minutes, 43 seconds) citing specific dollar amounts that DOGE or President Donald Trump claimed to have saved the American taxpayer.