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

September 25th, 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:

CNN Treats WH Return Like It’s Gettysburg, Normandy

Trump Bans Media From White House — Why He's Angry

NY Times Finally Frets Over Squashing of Dissent, Only by Trump

Omission Roundup: Peltola, Wild Democrat Poll, Illegal Alien Massacre

Special Report: Google News Implements Months-Long Blackout

 

 

CNN Treats WH Return Like It’s Gettysburg, Normandy

CNN covered its court-ordered return to the White House like it was D-Day or Gettysburg—complete with live play-by-play of a reporter walking up to the security guard shack—proving they care far more about their own status than informing the American public.

Brian Stelter declared "Press freedom is your freedom," despite previously pushing to deplatform conservative networks (like Fox News and Newsmax) from cable providers when Democrats were in power.

 

Trump Bans Media From White House — Why He's Angry

The Media Research Center found 92 percent of the evaluative coverage of Trump 2.0 during his first 100 days by ABC’s “World News Tonight,” the “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” was negative. 

And much of this was after Trump closed the southern border, when for years the Biden administration claimed it was closed.

Legacy outlets ignore staggering positive data—like an estimated 5.1% Q3 GDP growth, historic lows in poverty, and CEO confidence hitting multi-year highs.

MS NOW hosts routinely claim on air that the administration wants to "round up and shoot Americans in the streets" while completely skipping major foreign policy developments like the containment of Iran's nuclear capabilities.

 

NY Times Finally Frets Over Squashing of Dissent, Only by Trump

The New York Times ran a 2,400-word front-page story panicking about political dissent being stifled—yet they stayed silent while the Biden administration pushed 57 separate censorship initiatives targeting COVID dissent, vaccine skepticism, and conservatives.

The Times framed federal crackdowns on left-wing violence as an attack on "dissent," blithely glossing over political violence and online celebrations following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

When conservatives lost jobs or were deplatformed over Black Lives Matter or COVID policies in 2020, the Times called it accountability; when leftists face consequences for violent rhetoric, the Times calls it a constitutional crisis.

 

Omission Roundup: Peltola, Wild Democrat Poll, Illegal Alien Massacre

A shocking poll from the Center for Strategic Politics showed 59% of Democrats would feel positive if the military removed Trump, and 32% would feel positive if he were assassinated—a story met with a 100% network news blackout.

The network evening news buried a NY Times exposé detailing former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) verbally abusing staff with slurs and physically shoving an aide—coverage that would have been top-of-the-fold for weeks had it been a Republican.

The networks completely ignored a horrific Texas massacre of four family members by an illegal alien from Honduras, choosing instead to air puff pieces on beer-chugging fines and fat bears in Alaska.

 

Special Report: Google News Implements Months-Long Blackout

Between February and August 2026, major outlets published 257 stories detailing the White House’s historic crackdowns on fraud—yet Google News featured ZERO of them in its morning top 20 feed.

Google users were completely blocked from seeing the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history, including $230 billion in uncovered fraud, $6.5 billion in false claims prosecuted across 455 defendants, and $22 billion in delinquent pandemic loans referred for collection.

Even when Google’s favorite mainstream sources (like CNN, NYT, and AP) reported on these massive federal busts, Google's algorithm systematically suppressed those stories from reaching morning readers.