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It’s Official: 2024 Campaign News Coverage Was the Worst Ever!

November 5th, 2024 8:55 AM

It’s finally over, and the 2024 presidential campaign made history in at least one ignominious respect: Broadcast evening news coverage of the candidates was the most wildly imbalanced in history, favoring Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris over former Republican President Donald Trump by the greatest margin ever recorded.

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No Laughing Matter: 98% of ‘Comedy’ Show Campaign Jokes Target Trump

October 30th, 2024 9:20 AM

During the fall presidential campaign, a Media Research Center study found that hosts of the late-night "comedy" shows told a total of 1,463 jokes about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris -- but 1,428 of them were about Trump, and only 35 were about Harris. That's a whopping 40:1 ratio or almost 98 percent to 2 percent.

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TV Hits Trump With 85% Negative News vs. 78% Positive Press for Harris

October 28th, 2024 8:45 AM

One week before Election Day, a new analysis from the Media Research Center finds that broadcast evening news coverage of the 2024 presidential race has been the most lopsided in history.

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Guess How Deep in Search Google Buried ‘Lean Right’ News on Election

October 1st, 2024 2:17 PM

Google is at it again, forcing users to dig through 13 pages of search results before finally finding a story by Fox News in one search, and 14 pages before finding a story by the New York Post in another. These two results were the first U.S.-based right-of-center publications in two separate searches using the leftist search platform. Is Google living up to former President Donald…

STUDY: VP Debate Host CBS Is Wildly Slanted In Favor of Harris-Walz

September 30th, 2024 9:20 AM

Our analysis of CBS’s evening news campaign coverage suggests tomorrow’s vice presidential debate will likely be a friendly venue for the Democrat Tim Walz, and far more hostile to Republican JD Vance.

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STUDY: ABC, CNN Keep Reminding Viewers About ‘Bounty’ on Trump’s Head

September 25th, 2024 2:01 PM

Over the last 48 hours, ABC and CNN have repeatedly hyped a supposed six-figure bounty on former President Trump’s head. While even the vehemently anti-Trump MSNBC avoided sharing specifics about the bounty so as not “to encourage any sort of potential violence,” ABC and CNN apparently held no such reservations, eagerly mentioning it a combined 21 times in just two days.

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The View Piles on With 100% Negative on Trump Post-2nd Attempt on Life

September 24th, 2024 8:30 AM

Often forgotten as a program under the ABC News umbrella, The View is the highest-rated daytime talk show in America and known for making headlines for the ridiculous things their co-hosts espouse, particularly their strong hatred of former President Trump. But even the second assassination attempt against the former President wasn’t enough to loosen their deep-seated animus, as a new…

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Despite Shooting, ABC, CBS and NBC Blast Trump with 95% Bad Press

September 18th, 2024 9:15 AM

Not even Sunday’s close call with a would-be assassin could interrupt the liberal TV networks’ barrage of bad press against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

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100%! ABC Anchor David Muir Hosts Most Pro-Harris, Left-Wing Newscast

September 9th, 2024 9:05 AM

A new study by the Media Research Center finds that, of the Big Three evening newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight has been the most positive towards Vice President Kamala Harris and the most hostile to former President Donald Trump.

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Hating GOP, Hailing Democrats: PBS’s Very Biased Convention Coverage

September 4th, 2024 10:00 AM

The Republican and Democratic conventions are over, and it’s clear which party was the favorite of taxpayer-supported PBS. Not even the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump quelled the overwhelming negativity with which the PBS panel greeted the Republican Party Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee in July. Yet a month later, Vice-President Kamala Harris and a familiar crew of…

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Hyping Harris: Late Night Comedy's DNC Coverage Goes Soft

August 23rd, 2024 12:08 PM

For the late night comedy shows, the week of the Democratic National Convention provides the hosts with an opportunity to prove that they can make fun of Democrats in the same way they attack Republicans. However, a new MRC study shows they failed to do so this past week. In terms of quantity, the comedians hold 113 fewer jokes than they did during the RNC and 60 fewer jokes about Kamala…

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EXCLUSIVE POLL: Most Dem Voters Don’t Know About Harris’s Radicalism

August 14th, 2024 8:50 AM

A new MRC poll finds that large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — exactly those who would be expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s contest — are mostly in the dark about many of the controversial and radical positions Harris has taken.

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SPECIAL REPORT: How Soros Directs & Controls Prosecutors Across US

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August 12th, 2024 7:43 AM

Controversial leftist billionaire George Soros and his son Alex have worked tirelessly to undermine law and order in America. The Media Research Center has obtained thousands of never-before-seen internal communications from dozens of Soros prosecutors in response to public records requests. These documents reveal how the Soros machine effectively employs an army of radicalized government…

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Comedy Shows Smear Republicans As Racist Cultists During RNC

July 19th, 2024 12:15 PM

It was a week of ridiculing Republicans for the men of late night comedy. From Monday to Thursday, the comedians attacked Republicans as racist, cult-like drones and told more jokes about VP-nominee JD Vance in one week than they have about current VP Kamala Harris all year.