[UPDATE] The Media Have Wasted Almost 10 HOURS on the Reflecting Pool
The news media’s obsession with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool has continued apace. Earlier this week, we found that TV news had spent almost seven hours on the story in just the past nine days. As of Friday morning June 25, that total has reached almost ten hours across left-wing cable (CNN and MSNBC) and broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC).
STUDY: Nearly 7 Hours Wasted on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Thanks to the 24-hour news cycle, a nonsensical or unimportant story need only capture the attention of a few journalists in order for it to receive an absurdly disproportionate amount of coverage. Such is the case with the algae-riddled Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on TV news, which over the past week, has gobbled up nearly seven hours of airtime on liberal cable (CNN and MS NOW) and…
Networks Skip Foiled UFC Drone Terrorist Being an Illegal Immigrant
On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement that claimed the alleged ringleader of the foiled terrorist attack on the UFC fight at the White House the previous Sunday is an illegal immigrant. Since then, ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight, NBC’s Nightly News and Today, and CBS’s Evening News and CBS…
The Media Are Covering Up the Mass Rape of Thousands of British Girls
On Tuesday, an independent initiative in the UK, chaired by Reform MP Rupert Lowe, released a 219-page report documenting decades of rampant sexual abuse, torture, and trafficking perpetrated against as many as 250,000 underage British girls, primarily by Pakistani Muslims. The report details numerous cases of horrific gang rape and sexual torture — some of it too graphic to describe here —…
Apple News Dishes on Trump, Primaries: Coverage Favors Left 63% to 13%
A May analysis found Apple News heavily favored left-leaning sources when covering GOP primaries, promoting five times more leftist articles than right-leaning ones. Most headlines negatively framed Trump-endorsed candidates, while coverage from right-leaning outlets was minimal, highlighting ongoing bias concerns despite previous warnings from the FTC.
WEAK! Networks Reluctant to Give Trump Credit for Jailing Scammers
MRC analysts examined ABC, CBS, and NBC evening and morning news programs from May 1 through June 1 and found that the Big Three networks devoted a scant 7 minutes and 12 seconds of coverage to stories involving arrests and/or sentencing of fraud suspects.
STUDY: American News Media Don’t Care About Murdered Teen Henry Nowak
The journalists appear to have lost their enthusiasm for exposing police brutality, if their attitude toward Henry Nowak is any indication. As of June 1, left-wing cable (CNN, MSNBC) and broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS) networks have completely ignored the gruesome murder and alleged police abuse of White British teenager Henry Nowak.
Coincidence? Elitist Media Traffic Spikes as Tech Giants Prop Them Up
Website traffic for Newsweek, Al Jazeera, and The Minnesota Star Tribune closely mirrored how often their stories were promoted on top news aggregators—Apple News, Google News, and MSN. When promotion increased, so did traffic; when it dropped, audience numbers also fell, showing the outsized influence these digital gatekeepers have on major media outlets’ visibility.
STUDY: Stephen Colbert Turned 'The Late Show' Into 'The DNC Show'
Stephen Colbert was well into his farewell media tour when he told GQ, “I think I'm more conservative than people think.” However, according to an aggregation of previous NewsBusters studies and quote packages, that is not true. Since NewsBusters began counting jokes in January 2023, Colbert has told 87 percent of his political jokes about conservatives. Likewise, since September 2022…
STUDY: SNL Jokes About Conservatives Jump To 91 Percent In Season 51
Season 51 of NBC’s Saturday Night Live recently came to an end, and it was considerably more liberal than Season 50. A new NewsBusters study has found that 91 percent of the season’s Weekend Update jokes were directed at conservatives, while 83 percent of its cold open political characters were conservatives or Republicans.
ABC/CBS/NBC Spend Zero Seconds on DOJ Probe Into Soros-Backed DA
The broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening and morning news programs have ignored the DOJ investigation into George Soros-backed DA in Virginia.
99-3: Apple News Pushes Elitist Media on Iran, Immigration in April
In April, Apple News overwhelmingly promoted left-leaning outlets (70%) and suppressed right-leaning perspectives (2%), especially on the Iran conflict and Trump administration immigration issues, according to an MRC study. The platform highlighted stories with anti-Trump framing, sidelining conservative coverage and favoring elite, leftist media.
STUDY: Soros Pumped $204M into Groups Pressuring Charities on SPLC
Whenever there’s a threat to George Soros’s regime, you can bet that a number of his grantees will swarm like bees to protect the hive. Enter the disgraced, extremist Southern Poverty Law Center.
ABC/CBS Skip Trump Win in Minn, NBC Airs 2 Minutes on Anti-Fraud Raids
MRC analysts looked at the week (April 28 - May 5) of coverage since the April 28 raid and found just 2 minutes, 5 seconds (all of it in one segment on the April 28 edition of NBC’s Nightly News) was devoted to the effort to shut down the Somali scams.
