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While polling demonstrates a majority of Americans approve of President-elect Trump’s handling of the transition process, the coverage by broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC has been almost uniformly negative. In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to cabinet nominees who appeared to have the highest chances of sinking. MRC analysts examined all coverage of Trump’s cabinet…

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, which included NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoffrey Dickens and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Joe Scarborough!  The MSNBC host won for his…

For the last month leftist journalists and celebrities have been in mourning after Donald Trump’s re-election as they cried that he won because of America’s “racism and sexism” and feared a re-invigorated Trump would be more “dangerous” than ever.  The gnashing of teeth began right before (see here) the election and continued immediately afterwards (see here.) Washington Post Editor, PBS contributor and MSNBCer Jonathan Capehart condemned the country for re-electing Trump: “The role of…

Longtime MSNBC host and race huckster Al Sharpton has seen his guest appearances on MSNBC cut nearly in half, following a scandal involving undisclosed payments from the Kamala Harris campaign. According to The Washington Free Beacon, the Harris campaign shelled out $500,000 to Sharpton’s non-profit, just weeks before his October 20 softball sit-down with the Vice President. The Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross wrote that “Sharpton did not disclose payments from the Harris campaign during either…

It was twenty years ago this week (November 23, 2004) that CBS News announced Dan Rather would be leaving as anchor of the CBS Evening News after 23 years at the helm of a once top-rated newscast that had tumbled to third place during his tenure. CBS’s announcement came amid an investigation into his pre-election 60 Minutes attack piece about Republican President George W. Bush’s National Guard service. The story relied on modern-looking documents presented by Rather as 1970s memos created on…

If you relied on CNN or MSNBC evening shows for your news, you likely would have no idea that the illegal alien who murdered Laken Riley was just tried and convicted. CNN’s prime time programming (between 8:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. ET) featured just a single, two-minute segment on the trial, while MSNBC’s evening shows skipped the story entirely. Between the morning of Friday, November 15, when the trial started, and Wednesday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m. ET, when Jose Ibarra was ultimately…

Preliminary numbers show a record 5.29 million Georgia voters cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, an increase of at least 290,000 from the 4.99 million who voted four years ago. Just three years ago, the liberal media trumpeted how a new Georgia law was an effort to “make it harder to vote,” to “restrict voting rights” or amounted to “voter suppression.” There’s no way to reconcile a significant increase in voter turnout with media claims that Georgia Republicans…

It’s been a rough few days for the leftist media elites, they have been in anguish ever since Election Day.  The mix of anger and sadness poured out as they called the massive win for Donald Trump and the GOP a “nightmare” and questioned if America had “given up on democracy.” Journalists like Stephanie Ruhle warned that the voters had just “f’d around” and were about to “find out.”  MSNBC’s Joy Reid lectured Latino men: “Y’all voted with….David Duke and against your own sisters.” MSNBC’s…

In the final month before the election the leftist media settled on their closing argument: A vote for Vice President Kamala Harris is the only way to save America from the “evil” “maniac” Donald Trump.  MSNBCer Jonathan Alter sneered that the “evil” Trump had the “worst character” of any President who held office. His MSNBC colleague Nicolle Wallace sounded the alarm: “Voting for Kamala Harris feels like an emergency.” Many of them couldn’t believe the race was close as they blamed Trump’s…

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. Since July, ABC, CBS and NBC have treated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to 78 percent positive coverage, while these same networks have pummeled former Republican President Donald Trump with 85 percent negative coverage. (See Methodology explanation at the end of this post.) The difference in…

UPDATED: CBS News has a serious addiction problem. They can’t stop using dishonest techniques to help out their liberal friends while harming conservatives.  Most recently, CBS got in trouble for their deceptive edits of their interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. The so-called “Tiffany network” aired two different answers to the same question on Israel in its 60 Minutes, First they aired a word-salad answer on the October 6 Face the Nation. But when the interview aired on October 7,…

On October 20 CBS News issued a defensive statement on their sleazy edit of their 60 Minutes interview with the Vice President, insisting they did nothing wrong. But their deceptive cutting up of video — to make Kamala Harris look better — isn’t the only way they’ve been aiding the Harris-Walz campaign.  Five brand new Harris controversies have unfolded in October which CBS News has completely ignored.   From Harris dodging questions about her craziest policies, to being accused of…

As we head into the final month of the 2024 campaign it’s time to take a look at how leftist journalists and celebrities ended their summer of hate for the Trump-Vance ticket. In September some in the media disgustingly blamed the second attempt on Trump’s life on his own rhetoric. (See here).  Then instead of “lowering the temperature,” the press turned up the heat with the likes of MSNBC’s Joy Reid and The View’s Sunny Hostin comparing Trump to Hitler.  As for the Harris-Walz ticket?…

[UPDATED THROUGH OCTOBER 4 MORNING SHOWS] On September 27, ICE revealed that it estimates there are roughly 13,000 non-citizen murderers running loose in the country, but of the three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks only NBC found time to mention it on the September 27 Nightly News and on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press. It should be noted the mention on Meet the Press (made by Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute) was immediately “fact-checked” by moderator Kristen…

Tonight’s VP debate, between GOP nominee J.D. Vance and Democratic nominee Tim Walz comes on the heels of a months-long media assault on Vance contrasted with a friendly sales-pitch of Walz.  The contrast couldn’t be more stark in how the two were greeted into the 2024 race. Walz has been sold to the American public as a “moderate” “folksy” “football coach” with “rural roots.”  On the other hand, Vance has been depicted as a “weird” and “dangerous” anti-women candidate who “believes in the…