MRC Studies

A Media Research Center study finds Apple News and Google News heavily favor left-leaning and high "reliability"-rated outlets, based on Ad Fontes, NewsGuard, and AllSides data. Right-leaning and centrist sites appear far less often in news app top stories than expected, raising concerns about lack of balanced coverage on major news aggregators.

Atlantic writer David Brooks, the “conservative” half of the PBS News Hour’s traditional Friday evening political discussion, offered rare criticism of his media colleagues on the September 25 edition: “We have got to reestablish some distance from the Democratic Party….They're not people we root for. They're not people we're spin doctors for.” But with just a month to go before the 2026…

The Elitist Media are refusing to tell their audiences the truth about illegal immigrants voting in elections. Just in the last month, there have been multiple arrests and indictments of non-citizens trying to vote. From Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Minnesota, illegal immigrants have been swept up for trying to cast a ballot. So in the last month, how much time did the Big Three (ABC, NBC,…

As Americans gear up for another tumultuous midterm election year, voters should be aware that the most notorious billionaire in politics is still actively trying to bend society into his own personal plaything from an entire menu of political and sociocultural angles.

MRC analysts looked at the broadcast network (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening and morning shows and found they jammed their programs with 28 minutes, 53 seconds of ICE confrontation stories within just three days (September 20-September 23) of coverage, 0 on crimes by illegals. 

Is billions of dollars of fraud against America’s taxpayers NOT newsworthy? That's what you would find when looking on Google News or the elitist broadcast networks.

One of President Donald Trump’s major focuses has been rooting out fraud across taxpayer-funded public services. Through their White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, Co-chairs Vice President JD Vance and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson have touted unprecedented efforts to expose and crack down on massive instances of fraud since February 2026.

Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC haven’t breathed a word about the highly incriminating foreign money scandal involving Democratic mega-PAC ActBlue.

The following is a look at new crimes committed by illegal immigrants and how the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) have refused to cover them on their evening and morning news programs.

MRC researchers found ChatGPT initially refused to provide or acknowledge a Fox News article reporting its comparison of Trump to Hitler, raising concerns of AI bias and censorship. Despite repeated prompts, ChatGPT only later provided a link, fueling claims that OpenAI suppresses conservative viewpoints ahead of the 2026 elections.

Since Lindsay Clancy’s case ended in a mistrial, all of the big three broadcast networks have treated Clancy to predominantly positive coverage on their flagship morning and evening newscasts. At the same time, these networks have aired unprecedentedly hostile coverage of the single juror who refused to find Clancy not guilty.

Following months of tumult over CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s hiring of executive producer Nick Bilton and firing of top on-air talent Sharyn Alfonsi, Scott Pelley, and Cecilia Vega (and behind the camera), CBS’s 60 Minutes premieres a new season Sunday on the heels of a NewsBusters analysis that found, over the past six seasons, their political stories have skewed heavily to the left…

A Media Research Center analysis found that major news apps—Apple News, Google News, MSN, and Yahoo News—promoted left-leaning outlets 68% of the time in morning coverage from late 2025 to mid-2026, while right-leaning sources made up just 5%, highlighting significant bias as voters rely on these digital aggregators for news heading into the midterm elections.

Apple News has ignored recent WNBA “transgender” controversies, including Enes Kanter Freedom declaring for the WNBA draft, while heavily promoting left-leaning sports coverage. Despite widespread debate and eligible news stories, Apple News excluded these headlines, revealing bias through omission and lack of coverage on this cultural issue.