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
January 16th, 2026 12:01 AM

ABC’s Mary Bruce Delivers Democrat Rebuttal to Trump Healthcare Plan

Today The White House announced its healthcare plan. ABC’s World News Tonight was the sole broadcast network nightly newscast to cover the announcement. However, ABC’s coverage consisted of a litany of talking points seemingly aimed at rebutting the announcement, more in line with a Democrat press release.

Jorge Bonilla
January 15th, 2026 10:22 PM

Larry O'Donnell Whips Trump, Praises Heckler Who ‘Seized History!’

A week ago, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell happily replayed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) telling ICE to "get the f--k out of Minneapolis." He wasn't criticized as a "vulgarian." But that's exactly how O'Donnell began his show on Wednesday night, with eight minutes trashing the "Vulgarian In Chief."

Tim Graham
January 15th, 2026 7:07 PM

CBS Reporter: Still ‘Not Clear’ If Good Hit ICE Officer WIth Her Car

Thursday’s CBS Mornings included a remarkable assertion from correspondent Lana Zak, which was that, despite “the video” of the January 7 incident between an ICE officer and Renee Good (when there are actually multiple vides), “it is not clear whether or not the car made contact with him and — and how forceful it may have been” and it’s debatable whether the officer actually suffered…

Curtis Houck
January 15th, 2026 6:31 PM

BOOM: Karoline Leavitt Destroys Far-Left Hack Over His Disdain for ICE

Towards the end of Thursday’s fairly tepid White House press briefing, things took a dramatic turn when The Hill’s Niall Stanage told Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officer “acted recklessly and killed” Minnesota resident Renee Good “unjustifiably” and thus there was no way ICE does “everything correctly.”

Curtis Houck
January 15th, 2026 4:07 PM

The View’s Token Republican Cheers Walz Deploying Guard Against ICE

While ignoring how an ICE agent was attacked and beaten by three men (including an illegal) the previous night and the local police were given stand-down orders to live ICE lives forfeit, the cast of ABC’s The View praised far-left Governor Tim Walz for prepping his state’s National Guard to be deployed against ICE. Among these were faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin, who refused…

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 15th, 2026 3:33 PM

DHS: NYT’s ‘Despicably Misleading Headline’ Why Media Aren’t Trusted

“This despicably misleading headline is exactly why the American people have completely lost faith in the mainstream media,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explained Wednesday, calling out The New York Times for the way it framed an incident in which a violent illegal immigrant was shot by an ICE agent.

Craig Bannister
January 15th, 2026 3:02 PM

CNN Tries Casting Doubt On Story Of ICE Agent Attacked With a Shovel

CNN’s Inside Politics host Dana Bash had no evidence on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security was being untruthful when it said that an ICE agent shot a man in the leg in self-defense during an arrest operation after he joined in with other two other would-be assailants, one of whom was wielding a snow shovel. Nevertheless, Bash tried to cast doubt on the situation,…

Alex Christy
January 15th, 2026 2:35 PM

Seven Shows Into 2026, Kimmel Finally Tells a Joke About Liberals

In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 liberal jokes over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two liberal jokes and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump has defunded PBS.

Alex Christy
January 15th, 2026 12:02 PM

NY Times Hosts Soros-Tied Expert to Slam Trump's Post-Maduro Plans

It seems like the upper echelon of New York Times leadership understands that disclosing the explicit leftist biases of its sources has the potential to undermine the entire credibility of the newspaper’s anti-Trump mudslinging.

Joseph Vazquez
January 15th, 2026 11:59 AM

Frey: We Don’t Have Enough Police ‘to Fight ICE Agents on the Street’

Residents in his city are asking local police to fight federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “on the street,” but he simply doesn’t have enough police officers to do so, Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Wednesday night.

Craig Bannister
January 15th, 2026 11:05 AM

Klepper Thinks It's Hypocritical To Support Iranian Protestors And ICE

A bitterly sarcastic Jordan Klepper tried to keep alive the idea that supporting the Iranian protestors is incompatible with seeing nothing wrong in how ICE is operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show on Comedy Central.

Alex Christy
January 15th, 2026 9:40 AM

NPR Relies on LGBTQ+ Activist to 'Report' on Trans Arguments at SCOTUS

Two highly anticipated cases involving transgender athletes -- i.e. biological men suing for the right to compete in women’s sports came -- before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with opinions on the cases expected by the end of June. National Public Radio’s All Things Considered covered the opening arguments on Sunday. NPR’s idea of an objective reporter? Transgender (biological female…

Clay Waters
January 15th, 2026 6:47 AM

Nets Mildly Protesting FBI Raid of WashPost Reporter’s Home, For Now

Earlier today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson pursuant to a warrant related to a classified documents case. Coverage on the broadcast network evening news was muted, at best. 

Jorge Bonilla
January 14th, 2026 11:42 PM