Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Scott Jennings Show today to reveal new findings from MRC Free Speech America’s Digital News Tracker, showing Apple News’ continued tilt toward left-leaning outlets and complete exclusion of right-leaning sources.
Bozell explained that Apple News, along with Google News, Yahoo News, and MSN News — the “Big Four” news aggregation platforms — plays an outsized role in shaping how Americans consume headlines.
"It has become a way for these failing legacy news media outlets to hide in plain sight and still have influence over the narrative." @DavidBozell exposes Apple News with @ScottJenningsKY pic.twitter.com/NLuKuDJlNx
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“These apps have been relative blind spots for the conservative movement, and we figured out a way through our new Digital News Tracker to quantify just how left-leaning all these news apps have really been,” Bozell said.
Using daily screenshots of Apple News’ Top Stories, MRC analyzed 620 headlines in January. Of those, 440 came from outlets rated left-leaning, while the remainder were classified as centrist. Not a single headline came from a right-leaning source.
The imbalance, Bozell warned, affects millions of Americans who rely on push notifications and quick headline scans rather than in-depth reporting.
“If you're the nurse in the hospital who just doesn't have time to go in depth with Scott Jennings or Steve Deace or any of the influencers in the conservative ecosystem, or if you're a housing contractor going from job to job, you're scanning headlines,” Bozell said. “You're just looking at your push notifications and they're routinely and regularly to the left wing.”
"More than half a billion people are headline scrolling on these four apps." @DavidBozell encourages conservative news sources to be aggressive about getting on these news apps. @ScottJenningsKY pic.twitter.com/0O6eeDjLFF
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The sourcing patterns were especially striking. In January alone, Apple News’ Top Stories featured the Washington Post 72 times, the Associated Press 54 times, NBC News 50 times, The Guardian 34 times, and the New York Times 30 times.
Meanwhile, Bozell pointed out, outlets like Fox News and the New York Post were entirely absent.
Bozell also challenged Apple’s claim that users can fully customize their news experience, citing an MRC test showing Apple editors can override blocked sources.
“It’s much more editorially driven than they want to admit,” Bozell concluded.
