MRC Studies

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.  

Thursday saw an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with the House passing a bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), capping 76 days of tumult for government employees in agencies such as the Coast Guard, TSA, and Secret Service. But on the lead network evening newscasts, a Media Research Center analysis found only five percent of their shutdown coverage…

Sorry Rachel Maddow, but radical lefties thumping their chests about protests advocating “workers over billionaires” while getting funding from America’s most notorious billionaire is the most contradictory antithesis of “grassroots.”

After the SPLC was indicted for wire fraud and money laundering, major news apps Google News, MSN, and Yahoo News ignored the scandal in their top stories, while Apple News only featured two left-leaning articles. Right-leaning coverage was available but omitted, highlighting media bias in the Big Four News Apps’ reporting.

On February 28, the United States and Israel unleashed Operation Epic Fury, a coordinated combat operation against a radical Iranian regime which has threatened America for decades, terrorizing its neighbors and even massacring its own people. President Donald Trump explained his war reasoning in a Truth Social post, citing the historical context of the dangerous regime and insisting “this…

For decades, but particularly since the first Trump administration, the SPLC has enjoyed a perverse symbiotic relationship with the left-wing press. Their absurd “hate group” designations provided the media with ammunition against their right-wing targets, and the media in turn held up the SPLC as the gold standard of analysis and objectivity.

On April 14, Resistance activist/grifter Olivia Troye — who has spent years cashing in on her role as a former aide to then-Vice President Mike Pence in the first Trump administration — revealed she would run for Congress in one of Virginia’s now-gerrymandered districts and has a chance of winning, thanks to at least 340 appearances on far-left, elite media cable channels CNN and MS NOW…

A Media Research Center analysis found Yahoo News heavily favored left-leaning stories in March, with 400 of its top stories from the left and just 70 from the right, almost entirely Fox News. Yahoo virtually ignored center-rated outlets and was the most partisan of the Big Four news apps, highlighting a lack of balanced coverage for its large U.S. audience.

The following is a look at four new horrific crimes committed by illegal immigrants that the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) have buried, three of which have yet to earn one second of network attention:

Since Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz sounded the alarm in January about the rampant Medicare fraud inside California’s hospice system, a Media Research Center analysis found ABC and NBC have not spent a second on their flagship morning and evening newscasts informing viewers of the billions of dollars scammed from U.S. taxpayers. In contrast, CBS…

As ABC News’ The View headed into their Spring Break this week, they kicked off the important midterm election year (2026) with a parade of liberal guests espousing their view points. A Media Research Center study documenting which political views The View allowed to be expressed on the show discovered that 27 guests delivered liberal view points versus only 1 conservative.

Google News all but excluded right-leaning news outlets from coverage of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, with 183 left-leaning stories to just six right-leaning ones. 

On April 2, the New York Times published a surprising exposé about ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising machine: “ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned.” But while the Times’s willingness to break this embarrassing story about the DNC raised more than a few eyebrows, the ensuing total lack of coverage on left-wing broadcast and cable TV…

A recent analysis found Apple News promoted significantly more left-leaning stories in March than its Big Four competitors, featuring 434 such articles out of 592. Right-leaning stories were nearly absent, despite FTC scrutiny. Critics argue Apple News’s bias limits balanced news for its wide user base.