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

June 5th, 2026 5:30 AM

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. 

Top Stories:

 

MRC Research Exposes How Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News Artificially Inflate Leftist Media Traffic

MRC Exposes National Public Radio for Shutting Down Its Politically Charged Climate Desk

MRC Research Reveals Major Networks Offered Scant Seven Minutes of Coverage to Massive Anti-Fraud Victories

MRC Exposes Yahoo News for Promoting Fired CBS Anchor Scott Pelley With a Biased Anti-Trump Slant

 

 

MRC Research Exposes How Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News Artificially Inflate Leftist Media Traffic

Analysis by the MRC reveals that the Big Four news apps overwhelmingly promoted left-leaning media sources over right-leaning ones in April. 

Of the twenty-five left-leaning outlets on the Press Gazette top fifty list, the tech platforms promoted twenty-three of them among their top sources. 

Right-leaning outlets were shut out from promotion despite ranking among the nation's most-visited news websites and attracting over four hundred fourteen million combined visits. 

The study highlights how major digital aggregators act as partisan gatekeepers to actively shape public perception and manipulate traffic.

 

MRC Exposes National Public Radio for Shutting Down Its Politically Charged Climate Desk

An MRC report highlights the quiet disbanding of the National Public Radio separate climate desk following a series of layoffs. 

The chief climate editor confirmed that the ten-person department was folded directly into the national desk. 

Under past leadership, this specific desk routinely faced criticism for pushing far-left environmental propaganda and defending radical eco-sabotage. 

The collapse of the department demonstrates that the liberal media cannot sustain expensive climate scare tactics without continuous reliance on taxpayer funding.

 

MRC Research Reveals Major Networks Offered Scant Seven Minutes of Coverage to Massive Anti-Fraud Victories

An MRC study found that ABC, CBS and NBC evening and morning news programs devoted just over seven minutes of combined coverage to President Trump’s government anti-fraud wins over a full month. 

None of the Big Three networks broadcasted the official announcement that an administration task force successfully recovered one hundred sixty billion dollars in stolen taxpayer funds. 

ABC offered the least coverage with a single twenty-eight-second brief regarding a massive two hundred fifty million dollar pandemic relief fraud sentencing. 

The deliberate lack of airtime reveals a concerted effort by broadcast networks to downplay significant policy victories achieved by the current administration.

 

MRC Exposes Yahoo News for Promoting Fired CBS Anchor Scott Pelley With a Biased Anti-Trump Slant

The MRC exposed Yahoo News for utilizing its top placement spot to frame the firing of veteran correspondent Scott Pelley through a highly partisan lens. 

Instead of running a neutral report on Pelley being terminated after an aggressive outburst at network leadership, Yahoo elevated a left-leaning Deadline piece that attacked the network. 

Yahoo deliberately bypassed straight-news headlines from multiple center and right-leaning outlets that accurately detailed Pelley's insubordination during a staff meeting. 

This promotion strategy underscores how Yahoo News uses its massive digital footprint of over two hundred million monthly visits to protect establishment media figures and advance a leftist narrative.