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OMISSION: ABC News Fails to Mention Arrests of MN Church Invaders

January 23rd, 2026 1:28 AM

The broadcast network newscasts, having devoted the bare minimum amount of time to the Minneapolis church incursion that resulted in massive civil rights violations, now devoted the bare minimum to the arrests of three of the protesters. And in the case of ABC World News Tonight, the story was completely neglected.

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ABC Crashes Out Over Trump’s Greenland Play

January 21st, 2026 1:08 AM

With the World Economic Forum underway and President Trump about to join his economic team there, ABC made sure to slather on the partisan rhetoric and do everything possible to shape perceptions on the administration’s economic success. This includes a particularly nasty item from Mary Bruce on World News Tonight.

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STUDY: TV News Hammers ICE Border Control With 93% Negative Coverage

January 20th, 2026 12:20 PM

Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.

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Network Newscasts Downplay Minneapolis Church Incursion

January 20th, 2026 12:47 AM

On Sunday, former CNN anchor Don Lemon joined an anti-ICE protest group that stormed a Minneapolis church, disrupting the service and in the process violating worshippers’ right to freely exercise their religion as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. You would think that the Elitist Media, self-styled custodians and keepers of the First Amendment flame,…

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ABC, CBS Omit Shovel-Wielding Assailant In ICE Traffic Stop Shooting

January 17th, 2026 11:38 AM

Both Friday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News highlighted a Minnesota family that got caught in the chaos that ensued on Wednesday after an ICE officer shot a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in the leg after he fled a traffic stop. However, both shows omitted the detail that the man fled only to eventually join in with two other men—one of whom had a snow…

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ABC’s Mary Bruce Delivers Democrat Rebuttal to Trump Healthcare Plan

January 15th, 2026 10:22 PM

Today The White House announced its healthcare plan. ABC’s World News Tonight was the sole broadcast network nightly newscast to cover the announcement. However, ABC’s coverage consisted of a litany of talking points seemingly aimed at rebutting the announcement, more in line with a Democrat press release.

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Nets Mildly Protesting FBI Raid of WashPost Reporter’s Home, For Now

January 14th, 2026 11:42 PM

Earlier today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson pursuant to a warrant related to a classified documents case. Coverage on the broadcast network evening news was muted, at best. 

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NBC’s Laura Jarrett Lectures SCOTUS Conservatives on Trans Sports Bans

January 14th, 2026 11:33 AM

NBC was the lone network evening newscast to report on the hearing on transgender bans in school sports before the United States Supreme Court. The brief report, however, quickly devolved into a lecture from legal correspondent Laura Jarrett lamenting conservatives’ position on continued attempts to erase women in sports.

NewsBusters Podcast: It's Not 'Minnesota Nice' If You Run Over ICE

January 9th, 2026 9:40 AM

The network news can hardly notice the massive welfare fraud perpetrated by Somalis in Minnesota, and the media find nothing offensive about local Democrats telling ICE to 'get the f--k out of Minneapolis' and threatening to deploy the National Guard against ICE.

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NBC Is The Only Network Newscast to Cover Venezuela Prisoner Release

January 9th, 2026 1:14 AM

The aftermath of the ICE shooting of an anti-ICE activist in Minnesota has quickly exploded into a national story that sucks the oxygen out of anything else trying to elbow its way into the news cycle . This includes Venezuela, where the NBC Nightly News was the sole evening network newscast to chronicle a major development: the Chavista regime’s release of an indeterminate number of…

OMISSION: Nets Suppress Reports of Renee Good’s Anti-ICE Activism

January 9th, 2026 12:03 AM

In the case of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, there is a congealing media narrative of a wife, mother, and good neighbor being gunned down in cold blood by the evil fed. There were other, less convenient details to this story that became public today. However, the legacy media evening newscasts have not yet reported them.

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UPDATED: ABC Continues To Hide MN Fraud, NBC Plays Defense for Somalis

January 8th, 2026 11:15 AM

Last week NewsBusters published a study which found ABC's World News Tonight had spent just 25 seconds covering the widespread Minnesota fraud scandal involving allegedly sham businesses set up by Somalians. As of this morning, Wednesday, January 7, that number has climbed to a still-pitiful 35 seconds

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ABC OMITS Hegseth Censure of Sen. Mark Kelly Over ‘Seditious Six’ Vid

January 6th, 2026 1:13 AM

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a letter of censure to Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) that initiates a review process of his retirement rank and pay, as a result of his role in the shameful “Seditious Six” video that sought to undermine troop morale and good order by instigating them to disobey unspecified “illegal orders” such as the ongoing boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Of…

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ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods

December 30th, 2025 1:49 PM

While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing…