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STUDY: TV News Hammers ICE Border Control With 93% Negative Coverage

January 20th, 2026 12:20 PM

Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.

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SNL Smears ICE As Bad Fathers With Anger Issues

January 20th, 2026 9:31 AM

NBC’s Saturday Night Live returned from its lengthy Christmas break this past weekend and quickly joined the rest of the nightly comedy shows in seeking to smear ICE. According to SNL, ICE agents are bad fathers who have anger issues and just like being violent for its own sake.

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ABC, CBS IGNORE Anti-ICE Mob Harassing Christians at MN Church

January 19th, 2026 1:15 PM

On Sunday, a violent anti-Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) mob stormed City Church — a church affiliate with the Southern Baptist Church (SBC) denomination — and disrupted Lord’s Day services out of a false assumption that the pastor there was an ICE agent and demand accountability for Renee Good’s January 7 death. Thus far, ABC and CBS have yet to say a word about this ugly scene on…

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Sunday Shows Mostly Enable Jacob Frey’s ‘Love’ and ‘Resistance’ Shtick

January 18th, 2026 8:26 PM

The Elitist Media’s Sunday shows, in furtherance of preserving MInnesota’s civil unrest over interior immigration enforcement, booked Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for another round of softballs and patty-cake. With perhaps one exception, they all enabled his inflammatory rhetoric.

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CBS Reporter: Still ‘Not Clear’ If Good Hit ICE Officer WIth Her Car

January 15th, 2026 6:31 PM

Thursday’s CBS Mornings included a remarkable assertion from correspondent Lana Zak, which was that, despite “the video” of the January 7 incident between an ICE officer and Renee Good (when there are actually multiple vides), “it is not clear whether or not the car made contact with him and — and how forceful it may have been” and it’s debatable whether the officer actually suffered…

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Morning Nets Again Hurl Anti-ICE Slop, Take Protesters at Their Word

January 14th, 2026 7:05 PM

Wednesday marked another day of tiresome narratives across the broadcast networks and their flagship morning newscasts that smeared Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents, fixating on the “clashes intensifying” and “escalating” without explaining why federal law enforcement had deployed tear gas and other deterrents. Fireworks? Nevermind! Hitting vehicles? Not a concern!

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Liberal TV Rushes to Dismiss, Downplay ICE Cell Video in First Looks

January 9th, 2026 9:59 PM

On Friday afternoon, the Minnesota-based conservative media outlet Alpha News scooped the national press with the first publication of the cellphone video of Minneapolis-based Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officer Brian Ross’s deadly confrontation Wednesday with Renee Good. As such it took a few hours for the liberal cable networks to share it and, when they did, the early…

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NBC’s Vespa: Vance Claimed ‘Without Evidence’ Renee Good Was a Radical

January 9th, 2026 2:53 PM

Friday morning on NBC’s Today, correspondent Maggie Vespa misled viewers by telling them from the scene of anti-Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota that, a day earlier at the White House, Vice President JD Vance stated “without evidence” that the woman who died when she hit an ICE officer with her (which was confirmed Friday afternoon in a…

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Comedy Shows Accuse Administration Of Lying About Minneapolis

January 9th, 2026 10:20 AM

Four of the five liberal late night comedy shows focused a lot of energy on their Thursday episodes on the situation in Minneapolis. According to them, the administration is lying about the female driver being a threat to the ICE agent who shot her, people who agree with the administration are fascists, and Trump plans to use the situation to further his goal of governing without elections.…

NewsBusters Podcast: It's Not 'Minnesota Nice' If You Run Over ICE

January 9th, 2026 9:40 AM

The network news can hardly notice the massive welfare fraud perpetrated by Somalis in Minnesota, and the media find nothing offensive about local Democrats telling ICE to 'get the f--k out of Minneapolis' and threatening to deploy the National Guard against ICE.

Column: Minnesota Democrats Are Testing How Woke Is Too Woke

January 9th, 2026 6:45 AM

What is going on in The People’s Republic of Minnesota? Minnesota Democrats aligned themselves with radical leftists violently assaulting ICE and with Somali-Americans who defrauded the federal government of billions of dollars.

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Vance Blasts Media as ‘Agents of Propaganda’ For Minneapolis Coverage

January 8th, 2026 5:40 PM

Vice President JD Vance took to the White House Briefing Room podium Thursday afternoon to answer questions about Wednesday’s deadly ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis, but not before launching into one of multiple take downs for the “irresponsible” liberal media outlets acting as “agents of propaganda” and “lying about” both the ICE officer and the facts borne out in multiple videos.

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UPDATED: ABC Continues To Hide MN Fraud, NBC Plays Defense for Somalis

January 8th, 2026 11:15 AM

Last week NewsBusters published a study which found ABC's World News Tonight had spent just 25 seconds covering the widespread Minnesota fraud scandal involving allegedly sham businesses set up by Somalians. As of this morning, Wednesday, January 7, that number has climbed to a still-pitiful 35 seconds

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ABC Analyst Smears ICE Agent in MN, Suggests He Did Not Have Training

January 7th, 2026 6:50 PM

Late Wednesday morning, the  U.S. military’s actions in Venezuela became old news and no longer the top national news story following a deadly, Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis. The broadcast networks largely went wall-to-wall on their free, 24-hour streaming channels and, in some cases, the scorching hot takes were almost immediate. ABC News…