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

July 15th, 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 Exposes Pitiful CNN Attempt to Pre-Spin Dismal Inflation Report

MRC Highlights Gallup Poll Showing Public Confidence in TV News and Newspapers at Record Lows

MRC Exposes Pitiful CNN Attempt to Pre-Spin Dismal Inflation Report

VIDEO 1.8M views MRC Calls Out Media Controversial Casting in Odyssey and Moana Remakes

 

 

MRC Catches The View Co-Host Sunny Hostin Doubling Down on Bashing the American Flag

CNN Senior Writer Alicia Wallace and Senior Reporter David Goldman published an analysis declaring that inflation problems were not going away anytime soon. 

The biased pre-spin piece was released on July 13, just one day before the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its official monthly report. 

The official government data showed that consumer prices actually declined by 0.4 percent on the month, completely crushing the narrative pushed by CNN. 

This monthly decline was the sharpest drop in six years, leaving CNN’s premature predictions of a lingering inflation resurgence looking completely foolish.

 

MRC Highlights Gallup Poll Showing Public Confidence in TV News and Newspapers at Record Lows

A new Gallup poll reveals that Americans' trust in television news and newspapers has plummeted to historic lows. 

Only 14 percent of surveyed adults express a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in television news, placing it just above Congress. 

Confidence in newspapers fared only slightly better at 17 percent, which is just one point above its lowest ever recorded mark from 2022. 

The survey found a stark partisan divide, showing that Democrats place significantly more trust in these media institutions than Republicans or Independents.

 

MRC Catches The View Co-Host Sunny Hostin Doubling Down on Bashing the American Flag

During a podcast appearance, Sunny Hostin stood by her previous controversial comments that seeing American flags makes her feel unsafe. 

Hostin claimed that the flag has been co-opted and weaponized by the far-right and white supremacists in non-military communities. 

Rather than providing a real example of being threatened by an American flag, Hostin defended her anxiety by recalling an encounter with a Confederate flag. 

Hostin insisted that her negative views of the flag are part of an ongoing, common conversation within the black community.

 

VIDEO 1.8M views MRC Calls Out Media Controversial Casting in Odyssey and Moana Remakes

Corporate media outlets are actively defending radical casting changes in a new adaptation of the three-thousand-year-old Greek epic, the Odyssey. 

While the media shields progressive casting, they simultaneously praise Disney's strict adherence to honoring Polynesian culture in the live-action Moana. 

This is a blatant double standard where white history and ancestry are altered while non-white cultures are treated with absolute historical protection. 

This revisionist approach in entertainment is designed to promote a weaponized victimhood narrative that pressures white audiences to feel ashamed of their heritage.