MRC Studies

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…

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.

The broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening and morning news programs have ignored the DOJ investigation into George Soros-backed DA in Virginia. 

In April, Apple News overwhelmingly promoted left-leaning outlets (70%) and suppressed right-leaning perspectives (2%), especially on the Iran conflict and Trump administration immigration issues, according to an MRC study. The platform highlighted stories with anti-Trump framing, sidelining conservative coverage and favoring elite, leftist media.

Whenever there’s a threat to George Soros’s regime, you can bet that a number of his grantees will swarm like bees to protect the hive. Enter the disgraced, extremist Southern Poverty Law Center.

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: