CBS Claims Canceling Stephen Colbert Has Made It $55 Million

CBS’s stated reason for canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was that the show was losing them $40 million a year. Critics predisposed to think the world revolves around Donald Trump were hostile and outright dismissive of that, but on Thursday CBS came out with more specifics that argued that their new arrangement with Bryon Allen has netted them $55 million.

Alex Christy
May 29th, 2026 3:10 PM

Pope Leo Needs Trump to Tame AI

Pope Leo is right about the need to make artificial intelligence answer to the human good. AI has to be subject to human moral responsibility. But whose? The pope warns against power accumulating in private hands: A few companies, led by a handful of executives and board members, control AI development. The hard question Leo’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” tries to answer is how to…

Daniel McCarthy
May 29th, 2026 2:21 PM

NPR Extremism Reporter Finds New Way to Blame Right, Omit Left Threat

After the deadly shooting at a San Diego mosque, National Public Radio’s “extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef was back on her beat with a new angle against the sole class that she actually considers extremists: The “far right.” She examined the teenager killers’ “manifesto” and found a new victim class: “For far-right extremists, the rise of a new enemy: Women.”

Clay Waters
May 29th, 2026 1:36 PM

CBS Guest: ‘Cut Jill Biden Some Slack,’ Infamous Debate a ‘Mystery’

While the so-called media reporting class insist CBS News is MAGA TV, reality continues to prove otherwise with Friday’s CBS Mornings delivering another example as they brought on liberal author and historian Chris Whipple to assert “we should cut Jill Biden some slack” and “take her at her word” that, as she told CBS Sunday Morning, she has never seen Joe Biden in cognitive…

Curtis Houck
May 29th, 2026 1:30 PM

OOF! NY Times Dances Around UN Scientists Ditching Climate Armageddon

Watching an arrogant lefty newspaper scatter around like a bug trying to salvage its climate doom mongering after scientists pull the proverbial rug out from underneath it is one of the most satisfying things to see.

Joseph Vazquez
May 29th, 2026 12:02 PM

PBS Wonders Why 'We' Aren't Excited For America 250

The “And Company” part of Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS presumed to speak on behalf of the whole country when offering up some gloomy predictions about the upcoming America 250 celebrations. Walter Isaacson claimed that “we” are not looking forward to the celebrations, while author and The New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore claimed the “epic moment will elude us”…

Alex Christy
May 29th, 2026 11:44 AM

MSN Has RARE Neutral Streak—Proceeds to Favor Left’s Political Content

Microsoft’s MSN briefly achieved near-perfect news balance over Memorial Day weekend 2026, posting its first neutral Digital News Tracker rating since MRC began monitoring. However, most right-leaning features were non-political, while left-leaning sources dominated political coverage—suggesting apparent neutrality, but ongoing underlying bias.

Katharine Reyes
May 29th, 2026 11:15 AM

NJ Protester Threatens to Kill ICE Agent, AG Blanche Promises Arrest

The protester who yelled death threats at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer – and his family – will be identified, found and arrested, Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche promised Wednesday, responding to viral video of the protester’s threats.

Craig Bannister
May 29th, 2026 10:42 AM

OMISSION: CBS, NBC Silent on the Swatting of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

During the last administration, there was a surge in threats of violence against members of the Supreme Court who found the left’s pet policy items to be unconstitutional. That surge went substantially underreported in the Elitist Media. Sadly, this trend persists today.

Jorge Bonilla
May 29th, 2026 10:14 AM

Kimmel Omits Key Details To Suggest Trump Will Go To War With Oman

In his effort to portray President Trump as a reckless foreign policy adventurer, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took him out of context and omitted key information on Thursday to suggest that Trump was winding down the Iran War just so he could start another one with Oman.

Alex Christy
May 29th, 2026 9:56 AM

Al Sharpton Likens White House UFC to ‘Fights for the Slave Masters’

On Thursday’s Morning Joe, amid a discussion of MS NOW analyst Eddie Glaude’s new book on “how race shadows the nation’s anniversaries,” Rev. and PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton picked up on a Glaude point on the UFC Fight Night at the White House as part of a “hyper masculine” story of the anniversary and bizarrely equated the bouts to “fights for the slave masters.”

Nicholas Spinnato
May 29th, 2026 9:45 AM

Column: The Overweening Pomposity of the Old Guard at CBS News

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with “resistance” lingo when her contract was not renewed. “CBS management is...choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it."

Tim Graham
May 29th, 2026 6:15 AM

Today's Highlights: What MRC's Media Watchdogs are Saying

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media. 

 

Catherine Mortensen
May 29th, 2026 5:30 AM

REVOLT: CBS, NBC Absolutely COOK Jill Biden Over Latest Revelations

The Elitist Media once helped cover up Joe Biden’s obvious physical and mental decline, until they could no longer do so after the disastrous 2024 presidential debate. And they’re not too pleased about having former First Lady Jill Biden twist that knife in service of promoting a new book.

Jorge Bonilla
May 28th, 2026 11:55 PM