MRC Studies

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.

Since November 2025, Apple News has shown a strong left-leaning bias, promoting 72% of top stories from left-leaning outlets but only 1% from right-leaning sources. Stories highlighting conservative wins were rare, as most right-leaning headlines promoted focused on GOP controversies, underscoring Apple's ongoing liberal tilt.

As the left and right try to define their opposition ahead of November’s midterm elections, the media are clearly taking sides. According to a new NewsBusters analysis, the media has condemned conservatives and Republicans 86 percent of the time when they compare Democrats to communists or jihadists. However, when liberals compare Republicans to Nazis and fascists, only five percent of such…

A new analysis by the Media Research Center found that the top five newspapers and magazines most promoted by Apple News and Google News have exclusively endorsed Democratic presidential candidates in every election since 1988, marking the latest evidence of the rampant bias plaguing these influential digital news gatekeepers. Microsoft’s MSN, another powerful news aggregator, has followed…

If you were paying attention, you would notice a glaring case of two logically incoherent media narratives at play. Specifically, skyrocketing inflation under Biden during a midterm election year was considered a “transitory” blip, but a more tempered inflation rate under Trump during another midterm election year, despite a major war, was cast as setting the economy on the precipice of a…

A Media Research Center study of Google News from Nov. 2025 to July 2026 found a strong bias toward left-leaning opinion pieces, especially those critical of Trump, with 48 out of 60 featured articles from leftist outlets and only five from right-leaning sources. Positive Trump coverage was rare in the highlighted opinions.

With far-left DSA-backed candidates like Abdul El-Sayed eking out Democratic primary victories in crucial swing states, broadcast journalists have taken on the arduous task of sanitizing the radicals’ reputations ahead of the November midterm elections. The first order of business: striking politically radioactive terms like “socialist” and “far-left” from the broadcast media lexicon, in favor…

On Monday, Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) delivered an initial batch of texts after last week’s announcement the subcommittee had obtained a copy of Dr. Tony Fauci’s government-issued iPhone from the COVID-19 pandemic. Senators had hoped they would bring more bombshell revelations on top of the July 25 release of his pandemic-era…

On August 5, Vice President J.D. Vance announced - at a roundtable meeting - that the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force had uncovered and halted billions of taxpayer dollars being wasted on fraudulent spending. So how much time did ABC, CBS, NBC devote to this big win for the Trump administration and the American taxpayer? Zero seconds. 

Yahoo’s AI-powered Yahoo 100 “trending” list heavily favors left-leaning sources, with only 3% of stories from right-leaning outlets over three months, per MRC analysis. The list’s bias stems from its use of Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo’s data, and editorial input—all of which have documented left-wing leanings.

This week, the “Big Three” Networks and News Apps shielded fellow elitist liberal, Dr. Tony Fauci, largely ignoring bombshell revelations from his pandemic-era diaries released Saturday by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) before Wednesday’s Senate hearing and, following the proceedings, promulgating Fauci’s preferred framing of a “deep, partisan,” and “fiery” affair foisted upon him by Republicans.

Season 29 of ABC’s The View came ended last week amid an ongoing battle with the Federal Communications Commission over their purported status as a “bona fide news program,” which called into question their bias, their content, and their adherence to the so-called equal time rule for political candidates. Compared to a previous long-term study of The View’s guests, a new NewsBusters study…