STUDY: Be My (Lefty) Guest: PBS's Liberal-Conservative Disparity 5-1
The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary last year (and the show’s first year deprived of taxpayer funding) with a clip package of its coverage of various historical events, while declaring the program had traditionally strove to be “even-handed to a fault.” If that was ever true, the current version of the show, co-anchored by Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, certainly…
Colossal Obsession: Networks Spend 27 Hours in One Year Hyping Epstein
Remarkably, it’s been a year since the infamous FBI letter about Jeffrey Epstein that triggered a torrent of TV news coverage ghoulishly seeking to tie President Trump to the billionaire sex criminal’s life of ruin. In that time, a Media Research Center analysis has found ABC, CBS, and NBC have devoted a gargantuan 1,627 minutes across their flagship morning, evening, and Sunday morning…
STUDY: Comedy Shows Begin 2026 With 100 Percent Liberal Guests
For the late night comedy shows, the first half of 2026 was defined by the final airing in May of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But the political agenda of Colbert and his late night colleagues remained unchanged in January through June this year: No one expressing conservative views was ever granted a guest slot on a late night comedy show while 112 liberals were awarded…
[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.
