Research

MRC analysts reviewed ABC, CBS, NBC morning, evening and Sunday roundtable shows from December 2 (when the Twitter files story broke) through the morning of January 18 and found only CBS (barely) covered the Twitter files story on Hunter. 

The rapidly unfolding nightmare of President Biden’s document scandal prompted desperate talking points from Democrat-friendly cable networks last week, the most prominent of which was the claim that Biden’s classified document issues bore “night and day” differences to those of former President Trump.

A new poll from the Media Research Center, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, finds a majority (54%) of CNN viewers say they are now watching the network less than they used to, and most of those people (61%) agree that “one of the reasons I find myself watching CNN less often is because of its liberal/left-wing bias.”

For the last six years, Donald Trump’s tax returns were a blank canvas onto which Democrats and their corporate media enablers painted every imaginable conspiracy theory: foreign influence-buying, money laundering, insurance fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, and then some.

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: Celebrity Freak-Out Award.

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Craziest Analysis Award. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: Cursing the Conservative Court Award. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Media Heroes Award. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Damn Those Conservatives Award. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The GOP Will End Democracy Award.

CNN and MSNBC are pouncing on Twitter’s suspension of several liberal journalists, but those same cable news giants had about 15 times less interest in evidence of the same platform’s suspensions, blacklists and shadow banning aimed at conservatives when the so-called Twitter Files were released two weeks ago.

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and declared a winner.