MRC Studies

As ABC News’ The View headed into their Spring Break this week, they kicked off the important midterm election year (2026) with a parade of liberal guests espousing their view points. A Media Research Center study documenting which political views The View allowed to be expressed on the show discovered that 27 guests delivered liberal view points versus only 1 conservative.…

Google News all but excluded right-leaning news outlets from coverage of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, with 183 left-leaning stories to just six right-leaning ones. 

On April 2, the New York Times published a surprising exposé about ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising machine: “ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned.” But while the Times’s willingness to break this embarrassing story about the DNC raised more than a few eyebrows, the ensuing total lack of coverage on left-wing…

A recent analysis found Apple News promoted significantly more left-leaning stories in March than its Big Four competitors, featuring 434 such articles out of 592. Right-leaning stories were nearly absent, despite FTC scrutiny. Critics argue Apple News’s bias limits balanced news for its wide user base.

Google News sidelined coverage of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s major fraud scandal, instead promoting The New York Times and its games to boost their traffic and ad revenue. Critics claim this reflects Google’s bias, as even rivals reported on the issue while Google left it out of its top headlines for days.

PolitiFact was demoralized by the idea that Donald Trump was re-elected in 2024, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped rigging their “fact checking” apparatus against the Republicans. What’s truly amazing about the first quarter of 2026 is that the number of occasions they have rated Democrats as “Mostly False” or worse is at zero.

While ABC, CBS, and NBC have shown scant interest — just three minutes and 43 seconds — on their lead morning and evening shows in covering University of Loyola Chicago student Sheridan Gorman’s brutal March 19 murder, CNN and MS NOW have been even less interested in reporting on the murder allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien from Venezuela as neither has dedicated a single on-air story…

MRC analysts reviewed the ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning news shows from February 11 (when the SAVE America Act passed the House) to the morning of March 26 and found the broadcast networks have mostly hidden any discussion of the bill, spending a tiny 247 seconds (or 4 minutes, 7 seconds) on it.

A Media Research Center review found Apple News+ overwhelmingly favors left-leaning outlets—51 vs. only 3 right-leaning—calling its claim of "over 500" sources into question and noting some paid articles are free elsewhere. Critics say the service lacks balance and true value for its $12.99 monthly fee.

In the first week of the Iran war, the late night comedians told 94 percent of their jokes about the American side. By the third week, that percentage jumped to 97 percent, according to a new Media Research Center study.

Early Thursday, 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was murdered by a gunman on a Lake Michigan pier while walking with friends. More disturbing details arose Saturday night when Fox’s Matt Finn revealed the suspect was 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela who…