Research

Which way is it? On the one hand leftist journalists complain that Donald Trump is violating the Constitution with his attacks on the media, judges, universities and his deportation of illegal immigrants.   On the other hand, why should they care? Since some of them think the Constitution is worthless anyway?  This past month The Nation justice correspondent and frequent MSNBC contributor Elie Mystal called our founding document a “piece of crap.”  Yet the likes of New York Times columnist…

On Tuesday night, ABC News will air a prime time special featuring correspondent Terry Moran’s interview with President Donald Trump to talk about the first 100 days of the administration. Expect a hostile interview.  In his coverage of Trump, Moran has called Trump a “Fuhrer,” and accused him of “stirring racist fears,” with his “Neo-Nazi ways.” In sharp contrast, Moran has been soft-hearted in his coverage of Democrats and progressives. In 2009, Moran gushed: “Barack Obama is the first…

Just 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, the broadcast evening news landscape is even more lopsided than it was eight years ago, when Trump was besieged with relentlessly hostile coverage. So far this year, the new Trump administration has faced a withering 92% negative coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, whose flagship news programs averaged more than 19.3 million viewers during the first quarter of 2025, making them the most widely-watched news programs in the country. For this…

For weeks, liberal TV news have showered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s legal team with friendly press. So far this month, the attorneys defending Garcia, the deported illegal alien from El Salvador, have sat for 28 friendly interviews on corporate media airwaves, or more than one per day. MRC analysts combed through SnapStream recordings and Nexis transcripts from April 1 through April 23 for every interview of Garcia’s attorneys on liberal broadcast (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and cable (CNN and MSNBC)…

This past week, the Trump administration revealed more incriminating evidence about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien recently deported to El Salvador despite a withholding of removal to that country. Yet liberal cable networks CNN and MSNBC have mostly ignored the latest developments, and instead have continued to obfuscate the truth about this so-called “Maryland man.” Summary of Findings: CNN and MSNBC referred to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a “Maryland man” or similar terminology a…

It’s a tale of two different illegal immigrant cases.  On April 14, a Maryland jury found Salvadoran illegal immigrant Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez guilty of the horrific rape and murder of Rachel Morin. The Maryland mother of five’s 2023 murder was just one of many high profile cases of illegal immigrant crimes that resulted from former President Joe Biden’s border crisis.  In fact, the attorney for the Morin family has squarely blamed Biden’s immigration policies for her death,…

Over the past two weeks, broadcast networks were utterly consumed by news of the Trump administration’s tariffs, to the degree that the topic took up more than a third of their flagship morning and evening newscasts’ total run time. Yet during that same time period, these networks spared barely any time at all to cover some of the positive economic news, such as the declining Consumer Price Index and a stronger-than-expected jobs report. MRC analysts looked at all coverage of tariffs on ABC,…

If you got all of your news from CNN and MSNBC, you’d have a higher than 50/50 chance of believing the Trump administration had accidentally arrested and deported a naturalized American citizen living in Maryland, and for no particular reason. Cable networks CNN and MSNBC have hopelessly twisted the story of an El Salvadoran illegal alien who recently was deported by the Trump administration. Over the past week, these two networks have referred to Kilmar Abrego-Garcia as a “Maryland man” or “…

Leftist news outlets have been inundated with journalists making crazy, apocalyptic pronouncements of  “dangerous times” being ushered in by President Donald Trump and his supporters.  In the past month, viewers have been subjected to ultra-leftist Elie Mystal’s book tour where he’s crusaded for elimination of “all voter registration laws,” so that it’s “easier” to vote against Donald Trump’s “fascism.”  Washington Post editor Bob Woodward warned that it’s “one of the most dangerous times…

Last week, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent nearly 100 minutes covering leaked messages from a private Signal chat for Trump administration officials, in just the first 96 hours after the messages were published. But those same networks spent only 13 minutes covering the actual military operation that was discussed in those leaked messages. In mid-March, the United States launched a still-ongoing series of airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, in retaliation for more than 100 reported attacks on…

On March 27 the Trump administration scored a big win with the Virginia arrest of a top MS-13 leader. The day before (March 26) alleged Hamas-supporter and Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was picked up by ICE agents.  So which arrest did the leftist news outlets care more about? The arrest of the Turkish student Ozturk. From March 26 (when the cables first started reporting on Ozturk’s arrest) through March 27 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC devoted a total of 119 minutes, 18 seconds to…

Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) keeps doing newsworthy things, despite receiving basically no attention from the corporate TV news media. Despite Crockett’s busy week of calling for violence against Republican Senator Ted Cruz (TX), referring to wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) as “Governor Hot Wheels,” and allegedly assaulting a reporter, the Congresswoman has not been the subject of even a single report on any of the broadcast networks’ (ABC, CBS and NBC)…

Once a hero of the enviro-left for his electric Tesla cars, the broadcast networks have turned Elon Musk into a boogeyman who is heartlessly firing federal employees and endangering the public with cuts to food and airline safety programs.  Musk has been so villainized by the media that his once-beloved Teslas are being vandalized by the left.  There is another narrative that the lefties at ABC, CBS, NBC refuse to tell: How Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have already…

The most reliable indicator of the positive impact of President Donald Trump’s 2025 address before a Joint Session of Congress is the paucity of subsequent coverage it drew- 5 minutes and 7 seconds across all three network newscasts, versus a staggering 11 minutes and 26 seconds for then-President Joe Biden’s final State of the Union address. Stated plainly, Joe Biden’s final State of the Union drew a little over twice as much more airtime than did President Trump’s return address. The time…

On her way out the door, fired MSNBC host Joy Reid trashed Donald Trump for delivering “fascism” to America. She also attacked Elon Musk for bringing “apartheid” politics to the United States.  Over on CBS, 60 Minutes correspondent and ex-Evening News anchor Scott Pelley declared Trump was “in defiance of the Constitution.”   This past month also saw MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough scare his audience by declaring DOGE cuts were going to cause more plane crashes and not just kill “your family” but “…