Video

Even the Liberal Media Blasted Biden During His 1987 Scandals

Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock
September 17th, 2019 9:10 AM
So far, Biden’s 1987 scandals have been a non-factor in media coverage of his current race for the White House. But our review shows that when the multiple plagiarism accusations first appeared 32 years ago, liberal journalists treated them as Joe Biden’s first big test of character on the national stage — and, in their eyes, he flunked.
 
Study

CNN, MSNBC Spend 233 Minutes Shoveling Flimsy Kavanaugh Attack

Bill D'Agostino and Curtis Houck
September 16th, 2019 5:35 PM
Since 9:00 am ET Sunday morning, CNN and MSNBC have spent nearly four hours of airtime peddling dubious new charges of misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that allegedly took place when he was in college. The claims were first published by The New York Times late Saturday night.
 
Video

Excusing Biden’s Gaffes, Throttling Trump and Rooting for a Recession

Geoffrey Dickens
September 16th, 2019 10:05 AM

Liberal reporters and hosts have been paving the way for Joe Biden, as they have excused his non-stop gaffes as “endearing” and even “Reagan-esque.” At the same time, they were shocked by the “horror show coming out of Trump’s mouth” as MSNBCers like Chris Matthews and Donny Deutsch compared the President to tyrants like Idi Amin and blamed him for the El Paso shooting. The following is a…

 
Study

Debate Host ABC Has Ignored Most 2020 Dems This Year

Rich Noyes
September 12th, 2019 8:55 AM
The MRC found ABC’s World News Tonight awarded a majority of its news coverage to just one candidate: former Vice President Joe Biden. The ten candidates who will be appearing on tonight’s debate stage — Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Julian Castro and Andrew Yang — collectively received 96 percent of the…
 
Video

Meet ABC’s Debate Moderators: A Clinton Spin Doctor and Trump Resistor

Geoffrey Dickens
September 11th, 2019 8:00 AM
The moderators for ABC’s Thursday night Democratic debate include a former Bill Clinton campaign staffer and an anchor who was actually kicked out of a Donald Trump campaign event. So it’s safe to say ABC’s Democratic debate hosts won’t be asking any tough questions of the candidates –  at least none from the right. The following are just a few examples of Thursday night’s debate moderators’…
 
Study

CNN Spends 181 Minutes Hyping Jim Sciutto’s Dubious CIA Stories

Curtis Houck
September 10th, 2019 8:03 PM
On Monday, CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto aired a questionable story blaming President Trump for the extraction of a longtime CIA asset in Moscow. A Monday night New York Times story cast serious doubts on the reasons Sciutto cited for the 2017 extraction, but CNN has stood by Sciutto. All told, a NewsBusters tally of CNN’s live, on-air coverage found a staggering 181…
 
Study

Campaign 2020: TV’s War Against Trump Leaves Little Time for Dems

Rich Noyes
September 9th, 2019 9:50 AM
From June 1 through August 31, the networks devoted 838 minutes of airtime — nearly 14 hours — to coverage of President Trump personally, and the spin of his coverage during these three months was 90% negative. Meanwhile, the 21 Democratic candidates shared 187 minutes of evening news airtime this summer, less than one-fourth of that of Trump alone, with spin that was friendlier than their…
 
Study

CNN, MSNBC Inundate Viewers with 145 Minutes of ‘Sharpiegate’

Bill D'Agostino and Curtis Houck
September 5th, 2019 6:11 PM
As Hurricane Dorian continues to wreak havoc across the eastern seaboard, liberal cable anchors are fixated on perhaps the most frivolous piece of the news cycle: President Trump’s poorly-doctored hurricane map. Between 5:00 am and 5:00 pm Eastern time on Wednesday, CNN and MSNBC gave this non-news item a whopping 145 minutes (just under two and a half hours).
 
Study

STUDY: Cable News Is a Playground for Congressional Democrats

Bill D'Agostino and Rich Noyes
August 19th, 2019 6:50 AM

Congress may be almost evenly divided these days, but not on the liberal cable news networks. A new study by the Media Research Center finds that CNN and MSNBC host Democratic Representatives and Senators seven times more frequently than their Republican counterparts, and most often use Democratic talking points to question members of both parties.

 
Study

MISSING! TV News Hides the (D) in Epstein-Linked Democrats

Rich Noyes
August 13th, 2019 1:32 PM

On Friday, unsealed court documents named former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and former Clinton cabinet official and ex-New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as among those who allegedly had sex with an underage victim of Jeffrey Epstein. But while all three evening news broadcasts covered the case, one thing was missing: any hint that those two men are Democrats.

 
Video

They Can't Stop: Unhinged MSNBCers Keep Comparing Trump to Hitler

Geoffrey Dickens
August 12th, 2019 9:30 AM
MSNBC’s anchors from Joe Scarborough to Donny Deutsch are constantly comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
 
Video

IT GOT UGLY: Blaming ‘Racist’ Trump and Gun Owners for Mass Shootings

Geoffrey Dickens
August 9th, 2019 1:07 PM
It got really ugly this past week as anchors, reporters, hosts and celebrities blamed Donald Trump’s “racist” rhetoric for the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. The following are just a few of the ugliest attacks on President Trump, Republicans, conservatives and gun owners from journalists and celebrities in the wake of the mass shootings.
 
Video

STUDY: Nets Promote Liberal Gun Regulation Over Gun Rights 17 to 1

Geoffrey Dickens
August 8th, 2019 1:06 PM
In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have exploited those tragedies to advance their anti-gun rights agenda. In just five days (August 4 through August 8) of coverage, the networks filled their morning show programs with statements favoring gun control over gun rights by a ratio of roughly 17 to 1.
 
Study

Liberal Spin Trumps Balance on Spanish-Language TV News

Latino
Rich Noyes and Alexander Reyes
August 7th, 2019 8:55 AM
Compared to MRC Latino’s original study five years ago, the two main Spanish-language evening news broadcasts in the U.S. have become even more heavily skewed to the left. Out of 812 stories on U.S. politics and policy, more than 70 percent were slanted in a liberal direction, compared with 240 stories (29.6%) that were balanced or neutral and only two (0.2%) which were favorable to conservatives…