MRC Studies

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 JD 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…

MRC Original: If there’s one thing that stands out whenever Abdul El-Sayed is pressed about his radical positions, it’s his smile. His nearly perfect teeth, neatly trimmed beard and laid-back black hair rarely seem out of place, no matter how hard-hitting the question.

Before the originally scheduled 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner was postponed after a failed assassination attempt against President Trump, there was opposition from liberal circles that the usual tradition of having a comedian perform was being replaced by mentalist Oz Pearlman. With the dinner being rescheduled for Friday, a NewsBusters study decided to investigate why these liberal…

The following are just three cases of immigrant truck drivers bringing harm to American citizens that ABC, CBS, NBC aren’t telling their audiences about.

From May to June, Google News increased promotion of Al Jazeera stories by 125%, mainly on U.S. topics, boosting Al Jazeera’s U.S. website traffic by 6%. Critics say Google News favors the Qatar-linked, left-leaning outlet while overlooking major right-leaning U.S. news sources for coverage on key issues.

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 can’t make that claim…

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…