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Not even Sunday’s close call with a would-be assassin could interrupt the liberal TV networks’ barrage of bad press against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. A look at the first 72 hours of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts — Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights — finds that while the attempted assassination dominated campaign coverage, these networks’ anti-Trump spin was nearly as bad as it could be: 95% negative, vs. just five percent positive. MRC analysts…

Vice President Kamala Harris will meet former President Donald Trump tomorrow night for a debate hosted by ABC News, and she could not have chosen a friendlier forum for their first encounter. A new study by the Media Research Center finds that, of the Big Three evening newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight — run by debate moderator David Muir — has been the most positive towards Harris and the most hostile to Trump. MRC analysts reviewed all 100 campaign stories that aired on ABC’s World News…

David Muir and Linsey Davis are set to moderate Tuesday night’s presidential debate but don’t expect a fair and balanced effort from the ABC anchors.  If their past reporting is any indication of how Muir and Davis will perform, debate viewers should expect their questions to frame Trump as a “racist” “white supremacist” who will restrict abortion “rights.” They will also set up Kamala Harris to position herself as a “glass-ceiling” breaker as well as a protector of “reproductive freedom.” …

The essential idea of an objective news media is that journalists (aside from clearly-identified opinion commentators) present a factual rundown of the news, and it’s up to the public to sort through that information and forms their own judgements. An objective news media is vital if citizens are to make the decisions for society based on their own values, rather than being steered by powerful news organizations with their own agendas. Eight years ago, however, many in the media admitted they…

The leftist press has been laying it on thick in hyping the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket. It wasn’t just at the DNC (see here). It’s been going on for well over a month.  Network and cable anchors, reporters and hosts celebrated the “joyful” “jubilation” surrounding the Harris nomination, and whipped-up excitement for the selection of “folksy” “football coach” Walz. Some even dared to sell Harris as a Democratic version of Ronald Reagan. Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews crawled out of…

There was as an overload of absurd, obnoxious and over-top outbursts from leftist journalists during their coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The NewsBusters team worked literally day and night to track them down.  On the first night of the DNC, ABC weekend anchor Linsey Davis disgustingly linked the KKK to Donald Trump. MSNBC host Alex Wagner, on the second night, proclaimed Trump and his supporters were fearful of a President Kamala Harris ending their “white patriarchy.” On…

It’s a challenging task but we here at NewsBusters are going to try to sift through all the crazy, angry and ridiculous observations made by leftist journalists every night of the Democratic National Convention coverage and pick one for Worst of the Night. So without further ado, the Worst Media Outburst for Thursday night goes to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for her incredibly gushy review of Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech: “You will remember where you were,” “an inflection point in history…

Since Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race four weeks ago, the liberal networks have delivered an unprecedented boost of positive publicity to his successor in the race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative). As always, our calculation of spin…

"It's 2020 all over again. As it stands now, another leftist media coverup will decide the election." -- L. Brent Bozell III, Media Research Center founder and president   A significant new Media Research Center poll finds that large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — exactly those who would be expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s contest — are mostly in the dark about many of the controversial and radical…

[LANGUAGE WARNING] It’s not even over yet but the month of July has been one chaotic event after another that have exposed not only leftist journalists’ lack of credibility but also decency.  In the past few weeks we’ve seen network and cable anchors, reporters and pundits attack RNC speakers (see here) while proclaiming President Joe Biden a modern day George Washington for stepping aside to let Kamala “heartbeat of hope” Harris save democracy from Donald Trump. Never mind the fact that…

Conservative sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at the Paris Olympics might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from the reporters covering them. Over the years, the MRC has documented lefty reporters and writers using the games to celebrate socialist policies of the host countries, bash expressions of patriotism and even work in jabs against Republicans, like when Bryant Gumbel, in 2006, complained that the “paucity” of black athletes “makes the…

It’s a challenging task but we here at NewsBusters are going to try to sift through all the crazy, angry and ridiculous observations made by leftist journalists every night of the Republican National Convention coverage and pick one for Worst of the Night. So without further ado, the Worst Media Outburst for Wednesday night goes to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace for whining that the because of conservative talk radio the GOP is “totally codependent on disinformation.” This was especially grievous…

This Thursday, despite the liberal media’s tremendous effort over the past 18 months to destroy his campaign, you’ll hear Donald Trump again accept the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. The media’s effort has been intense: a new Media Research Center study found ABC, CBS and NBC devoted massive quantities of airtime (a whopping 1,608 minutes on just the three evening newscasts) to promoting the legal efforts against Trump, nearly all of it (95%) fiercely negative. Yet the liberal…

For years leftist journalists have been scaring their audience into believing that a Donald Trump victory in 2024 will bring about the “end of democracy.” So it shouldn’t surprise anybody that a crazed shooter might have acted on that premise.  These anchors, reporters and pundits should be the last ones to criticize any conservative for their “tone” in the coming days.  The following are just some of the most obnoxious cases of journalists (via MRC’s archives) declaring democracy dead, if…

There’s a reason even MSNBC executives decided to keep Morning Joe off the air — in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt of President Donald Trump. They were terrified that Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski or any other of their regular guests would call Trump a “threat” to democracy, label him “fascist” or even compare him to “Hitler.”  On Monday, CNN reported: “A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s…