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Trump White House Repeatedly Cite MRC Coverage Studies
BOZELL: Washington Examiner Op-Ed: Rig the Headlines, Shift the Polls
Special Report: Apple News Was Most Radical of Big Four News Apps in March
NPR 'Public Editor' Admits They Ignored Voices from Attacked Synagogue in Michigan
Trump White House Repeatedly Cite MRC Coverage Studies
President Trump is directly citing MRC-style media bias numbers at major public events. In multiple speeches in recent weeks, President Trump highlighted that he received 95% negative press coverage during the election — a statistic long documented by the Media Research Center. He used it to explain his landslide victory despite overwhelming media hostility, declaring “there’s something wrong with the news” and that “the fake news really has to change.”
The White House is using specific MRC-documented examples of media neglect and bias. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, during a White House briefing carried live on Fox News, cited an MRC-style survey on the Sheridan Gorman case, revealing the shocking disparity in coverage: ABC spent just 1 minute 19 seconds, CBS 2 minutes 1 second, and NBC only 23 seconds on the murder of a young American woman by an illegal immigrant.
MRC research has moved from the margins into the center of the national conversation, influencing the President and the White House. By repeatedly referencing extreme negative coverage percentages and specific under-covered tragedies like the Sheridan Gorman murder, both President Trump and Press Secretary Leavitt are elevating the Media Research Center’s findings to the highest levels of government and primetime audiences. This shows MRC’s rigorous documentation of media bias is no longer just conservative critique, it is shaping the official narrative and forcing the media accountability debate into the mainstream.
BOZELL: Washington Examiner Op-Ed: Rig the Headlines, Shift the Polls
Media is rigging the narrative with overwhelmingly negative, context-free coverage. Broadcast networks delivered 93% negative coverage of ICE operations, PBS hit 85% negative, and anti-ICE voices outnumbered supportive ones by more than 9-to-1. Digital aggregators (Apple News, Google News, MSN, Yahoo) were just as bad at 86% negative or stripped of context. They routinely omit the crimes that triggered deportations and bury the facts Americans voted for.
Fear-driven headlines and language are designed to manufacture opposition. Headlines scream “invasion,” “chaos,” “war zone,” and “fear” while calling riots “protests” and downplaying violence. Outlets like Yahoo ran Salon’s “How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys,” and Google promoted stories claiming ICE agents are “terrified.” One activist’s death generated 44 headlines — none mentioned she struck an ICE agent with her vehicle first. This isn’t reporting; it’s propaganda.
The biased information environment is shifting the polls and it may violate federal law. Americans aren’t suddenly rejecting Trump’s immigration mandate; they’re being fed a steady diet of one-sided framing with conservative outlets systematically excluded. These platforms pose as neutral while curating a false consensus. The FTC must hold Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo to the same standard it’s already applying to Apple.
Special Report: Apple News Was Most Radical of Big Four News Apps in March
Apple News is the most radically biased aggregator among the Big Four. In March, Apple News promoted 434 left-leaning stories out of 592 rated articles — a staggering 73.3% from left-leaning outlets. That far outpaced its competitors: Yahoo (400), Google (382), and MSN (226). Meanwhile, Apple News featured just 5 right-leaning stories — less than 1% — the lowest of all four platforms and down from February.
Apple News systematically suppresses conservative voices while pushing fear-driven, left-wing framing on key issues. The app heavily favored outlets like The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vox, and NPR, especially on immigration, ICE operations, and Trump administration policies. Examples include headlines such as “Teenager becomes youngest person to die in ICE detention in Trump’s second term,” “‘America Doesn’t Want My Children or Grandchildren,’” and framing Trump’s SAVE Act as causing “Chaos.” Right-leaning perspectives were almost entirely shut out, despite Apple’s claims of neutrality.
Apple News is doubling down on bias even after FTC scrutiny — and it’s misleading millions of Americans. Pre-installed on iPhones and reaching tens of millions daily, Apple News has become more extreme, not less, following MRC’s prior exposés and the FTC’s official warning to Tim Cook. As MRC’s Free Speech America leaders noted, this isn’t balance — it’s deliberate propaganda that distorts the national conversation. Americans deserve transparency and fairness from platforms that pose as neutral news sources.
NPR 'Public Editor' Admits They Ignored Voices from Attacked Synagogue in Michigan
NPR’s own public editor admits they completely ignored victims of the Michigan synagogue attack. NPR ran multiple stories on the terror attempt to blow up Temple Israel, where 140 Jewish American children had to flee, but featured zero voices from rabbis, congregation members, or affected families.
Instead of amplifying synagogue victims, NPR humanized the attacker’s Hezbollah-linked family in Lebanon. NPR devoted sympathetic coverage to the attacker Ayman Ghazali’s hometown, focusing on “grief and fear” for his family while concealing that his brothers were Hezbollah terrorists.
NPR’s bias distorts reality, even their public editor says missing key voices warps the whole story. By pulling away too soon from the synagogue victims and omitting their perspectives, NPR failed its audience and proved once again it does not live up to “All Things Considered.”
