Bias by Omission

Our friend and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner Andrew Kerr put a spotlight Tuesday on the revelation that a previously censored 2022 Biden administration report on the coronavirus pandemic that he said showed “[s]even Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic.”

NBC’s report on the Pennsylvania limestone mine currently occupied by the Office of Personnel Management’s retirement division is insightful, clarifying, fun, and…should’ve aired a month and a half ago. Consider that reporting on things that would’ve been insightful a long time ago is its own form of omission.

On Friday and Tuesday, CBS Mornings Plus covered a newly revealed policy change during the Biden administration and kept in place under Team Trump that federal government workers stationed in China are barred from engaging in romantic relationships with Chinese citizens out of fear of spies engaging in honeypotting, or seducing Americans to elicit information pertinent to our national…

Tonight, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the Trump administration’s venue-based challenge of a U.S. District Court ruling barring deportations of illegal aliens suspected to be Tren de Aragua, pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Except for Univision, the story received a total blackout among “legacy media” evening newscasts.

Olivers abound on Sunday when former CNN media beat writer Oliver Darcy took to his media-industry newsletter to puff up late night comedian John Oliver. Darcy praised the effort and research Oliver and his team of producers at Last Week Tonight put into each episode. But one massive recent development for Oliver was the unaddressed gorilla in the room: the defamation suit against him…

Amid the latest blow in Signalgate and the torrent of negative stories about President Trump’s tariffs, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC used the opportunity to completely ignore word Wednesday the suspect who allegedly wanted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 has decided to plead guilty, possibly sending him to a sentence of life in prison.

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, the host of Washington Week with The Atlantic, tax-funded PBS’s weekly political roundtable show, recently made news himself when he revealed he had been privy to a national security text thread from the Trump White House discussing war plans. Goldberg took full advantage of the Trump team’s misstep, wielding the March 28 episode as…

2023 MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism winner Andrew Kerr penned a blockbuster piece Monday morning in the Washington Free Beacon that revealed far-left Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) lives in $1 million home DeKalb County, Georgia without having every owed a penny thanks “to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he still serves as part-time senior pastor when he's not…

Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) keeps doing newsworthy things — but, curiously, receiving basically no headlines. Despite Crockett’s busy week of calling for violence against Republican Senator Ted Cruz (TX), referring to wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) s “Governor Hot Wheels,” and allegedly assaulting a reporter, the Congresswoman has not been the subject of…

Before journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s revelation that he’d been privy to a national security text thread discussing war plans by the Trump White House, the Atlantic’s editor in chief hosted another busy episode of public television’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, where Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and Atlantic writer Michael Scherer helped…

If any more proof was needed of how un-self-aware MSNBC really was, Charles Coleman Jr. rose to the occasion while filling in for Monday night’s The 11th Hour. To discuss a reported national security breach of the Trump administration, Coleman ostensibly interviewed Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA.), but in fact just let Swalwell mouth off at will, while completely ignoring the fact…

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Dallas-Fort Worth-area affiliate KXAS and went viral on X Monday, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) talked repeatedly about wanting to beat up and repeatedly “punch” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Leaving aside her sudden code switching in the last year, the incendiary rhetoric is the sort of thing ABC, CBS, and NBC would look to call out if…

You can tell which news stories best advance the left’s narrative, by the similarities in how they are covered among the networks. There is a sameness and fluidity to the stories, which often touch the same points. On inconvenient, counternarrative stories you often get disjointed coverage- mixed at best and often reluctant. Case in point, coverage of the rash of violent attacks against Tesla…

The networks spent the better part of last week advocating on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student agitator being processed for denaturalization and deportation due to his activities in material support of Hamas. However, when it came to a Rhode Island doctor who left the country to attend a Hezbollah funeral, ABC and CBS decided to bite their tongues, completely omitting the story…