Bias by Omission
IT’S (D)IFFERENT: Legacy News Barely Covers Positive Inflation Report
An inflation report coming in lower than expected with a core inflation number under 3 for the first time since the pandemic would have drawn elated A-block coverage across the “legacy” evening news. But a similar report at the outset of Trump II? Not so much.
NPR Hosts Biden Book Author: 'Biden Was Capable.' Was NPR Culpable?
National Public Radio’s Fresh Air interview program, hosted by Terry Gross, brought on journalist Chris Whipple Tuesday to talk about his new book on former President Biden and how Biden’s handlers concealed his mental decline from the public -- and themselves? And what role if any did taxpayer-funded NPR play? Over the course of Biden’s single term, NPR treated the matter of Biden’s…
Networks Ignore Bombshell Report Team Biden Hid on Covid Cases in 2019
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.”
OH, NOW YOU WANT TO COVER THIS: NBC Goes Inside DOGE Project OPM Mine
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.
CBS Covers Threat of Chinese Spy Seduction, Omits Fang Fang & Swalwell
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…
Univision The Only Network to Report SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act Ruling
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.
Oliver Darcy Praises John Oliver’s Research, Ignores Defamation Suit
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…
Networks Skip Suspect in SCOTUS Assassination Plot Seeking Guilty Plea
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.
Look Who’s (Not) Talking on PBS's 'Washington Week' -- Conservatives
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…
Editor’s Pick: Free Beacon on Warnock’s Lavish House Church Bought Him
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…
Broadcast Networks IGNORE Rep. Crockett Allegedly Assaulting Reporter
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…
PBS Fears ‘Constitutional Crisis,’ Casts Trump as Chair-Hurling Knight
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…
MSNBC Lets Swalwell Rant on Security Breach, Ignores His Own Scandal
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…
ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Crockett Calling for Violence Against Ted Cruz
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…
