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BLACKOUT: As Cuomo’s Many Scandals Live On, TV News Goes Silent

June 28th, 2021 7:55 AM

Between January 28 and March 29, Media Research Center analysts tallied just over 100 minutes of Cuomo scandal coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening newscasts, yet not a single second in the 12 weeks that have followed.

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TOP 12: Pumped Up By ‘Professor’ Biden’s ‘Dazzling’ EuroTrip

June 18th, 2021 8:45 AM

The following is top 12 countdown of the most overblown celebrations of Biden’s EuroTrip in the last week.

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STUDY: Nets Blast State Election Laws, Ignore Dem Election Takeover

June 15th, 2021 7:50 AM

An analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage found 52 minutes of airtime on a variety of Republican-sponsored state election laws, vs. a meager 2 minutes, 40 seconds for Democrats’ so-called “For the People” Act. Coverage of the GOP-sponsored laws was a stupendous 96% negative coverage; there was zero criticism of the Democrats’ bill, which would destroy a host of state election rules…

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STUDY: Facebook Lets Genocidal China Influence 751 Million Followers

June 2nd, 2021 10:22 AM

Facebook has had no reservations about censoring conservative accounts. Yet, it allows accounts of state-controlled propaganda outlets from the genocidal regime of China to flourish. Forty accounts on Facebook, amassing over 751 million followers, are managed by Chinese state-controlled media outlets. For comparison, 751 million is over six times (6.39x) more followers than…

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Drive Out ‘Demons’ From GOP’s ‘Hate Machine’ Before It Ends Democracy

May 31st, 2021 9:00 AM

Wonder why so many lefty journalists have an outsized hero-complex? It’s because they believe they are all that stands in the way of the GOP’s “big, ugly hate machine” full of “demons” that are a worse “threat to democracy” than Osama bin Laden ever was. All those insane assertions and more were made by crazed cable hosts and pundits in the last month. The following are the most insane…

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Liberal TV Touts GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Biden’s Policy Debacles

May 19th, 2021 8:00 AM

As President Biden and his profligate administration leave their fingerprints on more and more policy failures affecting millions of Americans, the liberal media’s tactic seems to be to barely cover or outright ignore these Democratic debacles. Instead, a new MRC study shows the broadcast evening newscasts are giving far more coverage to political dramas such as the recent ouster of…

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FLASHBACK: When the Media Used a Gas Crisis to Bash a President

May 13th, 2021 3:24 PM

To remind NewsBusters readers just how tough the current media climate COULD BE on Biden we offer the following look at the most absurd outbursts of gas price hype from 2005-2006.

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CNN Spends Nearly 3x More in 12 Hrs on Cheney Than Economic Crises

May 13th, 2021 1:10 AM

On Wednesday, CNN showed a further commitment to unseriousness and a refusal to engage in basic journalism by spending nearly three times (2.72) times more time over a 12-hour period on Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) losing a role in House GOP leadership than the multiple economic crises facing the country, ranging from the Colonial pipeline hack to gasoline shortages to inflation to stagnant…

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TV Buries Biden’s Worse-than-Ever Border Crisis

May 12th, 2021 9:50 AM

New numbers show the crisis at the U.S. southern border actually worsened in April, but the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts have drastically cut back on their coverage of the Biden administration’s ongoing debacle. And our analysis shows the minuscule news coverage isn’t the only favor the liberal networks are doing for the White House.

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Damning DeSantis and Polishing Up Biden

May 6th, 2021 9:00 AM

After President Joe Biden delivered his first address to Congress, liberal journalists polished-up his performance, praising him as a “non-threatening” “progressive.” They also pitied him as they whined COVID had robbed him of the usual “majesty and pomp” granted to past presidential addresses. The opposition to Biden was reviled. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was called a “modern-day George…

STUDY: PolitiFact's 8 Times as Likely to Defend Biden Than Check Him

May 4th, 2021 8:10 AM

Our new study finds that four years ago, PolitiFact offered 52 fact checks with a “Truth-O-Meter” ruling of Donald Trump in his first 100 days, while in the same period this year, PolitiFact offered just 13 fact checks of President Biden. On its website, PolitiFact splits its Biden verdicts into “Facts Checks Of Biden” and “Fact Checks About Biden.” Our review of the first 100 days shows 13…

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FLASHBACK: How the Media Hated Trump’s Addresses to Congress

April 28th, 2021 8:50 AM

The following is a look back (via the MRC’s archives) at how the media trashed Trump’s State of the Union speeches as “psychotically incoherent” tirades “full of lies” and even “dog poop.”

New MRC Poll: 3X More Voters See News Media As Easier on Joe Biden

April 26th, 2021 8:55 AM

As Joe Biden nears his 100th day in office, a new poll conducted for the Media Research Center by McLaughlin & Associates finds a plurality of voters say the news media have given the President an easier ride than his predecessors. The public’s perception of a pro-Biden bias is confirmed by a recent MRC study which found broadcast evening news coverage of the new President has been more…

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Condemning ‘Racist’ GOP for Bringing Back ‘Jim Crow’

April 20th, 2021 8:50 AM

For well over a month the media joined their allies in the Democratic Party in browbeating corporate America and the public into believing that an “immoral” and “racist” Republican Party has been waging a “holy war” to bring back “Jim Crow” laws to “torture” black Americans. The following is a compilation of the ugliest depictions of the Georgia law since its passage from lefty hosts,…