Media & Communication: Research Guide

Eight – that’s the total number of stories Apple News has shared from right-leaning outlets whose headlines touted wins for President Donald Trump, Republicans and conservatives in the last nine and a half months. MRC Marketing Graphic Rather than provide balance, Apple News has consistently promoted stories from left-leaning outlets. Since the Media Research Center began tracking Apple News data in early November 2025, it has…

As the left and right try to define their opposition ahead of November’s midterm elections, the media are clearly taking sides. According to a new NewsBusters analysis, the media has condemned conservatives and Republicans 86 percent of the time when they compare Democrats to communists or jihadists. However, when liberals compare Republicans to Nazis and fascists, only five percent of such analogies were rebuked.For this study, NewsBusters analyzed all news programming from PBS, MS NOW, and…

MRC Original A new analysis by the Media Research Center found that the top five newspapers and magazines most promoted by Apple News and Google News have exclusively endorsed Democratic presidential candidates in every election since 1988, marking the latest evidence of the rampant bias plaguing these influential digital news gatekeepers. Microsoft’s MSN, another powerful news aggregator, has followed suit by promoting news outlets…

If you were paying attention, you would notice a glaring case of two logically incoherent media narratives at play. Specifically, skyrocketing inflation under Biden during a midterm election year was considered a “transitory” blip, but a more tempered inflation rate under Trump during another midterm election year, despite a major war, was cast as setting the economy on the precipice of a complete disaster. MRC Graphic According to…

Google News highlighted opinion pieces that overwhelmingly pushed a leftist narrative and are negative toward right-leaning policies, politicians and people. MRC Graphic The best description for the majority of the opinion pieces Google News chose to feature since November of 2025 is anti-Trump. Selected headlines tell the tale better than any deeper analysis could. For example, from The New York Times and featured by Google News on…

Image Media Research Center With far-left DSA-backed candidates like Abdul El-Sayed eking out Democratic primary victories in crucial swing states, broadcast journalists have taken on the arduous task of sanitizing the radicals’ reputations ahead of the November midterm elections. The first order of business: striking politically radioactive terms like “socialist” and “far-left” from the broadcast media lexicon, in favor…

MRC original graphic UPDATE, 8:02 p.m. Eastern: Late Tuesday, the CBS Evening News finally broke the blackout on the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC, with not one, but two segments for a hefty two minutes and 52 seconds.Anchor Tony Dokoupil said the texts from Fauci’s government-issued cell phone “offer[ed] a rare window into the private conversations of our public health leaders at the height of the crisis and on an issue…

MRC Original Graphic On August 5, Vice President J.D. Vance announced - at a roundtable meeting - that the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force had uncovered and halted billions of taxpayer dollars being wasted on fraudulent spending.The amount of money saved was jaw-dropping.The Vice President broke down the numbers in an op-ed for the August 5 Washington Post:“Since Inauguration Day, our administration has taken a sledgehammer to…

The new Yahoo 100 “trending” list is generated from a host of biased sources: Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s Bing, Yahoo’s own data and Yahoo editors. It is no surprise, then, that the content leading its list each morning contained only 3% right-leaning stories over the last three months. MRC Image Early in 2026, Yahoo launched a new artificial intelligence (AI), Yahoo Scout, to help power its Yahoo 100 list. The Yahoo 100 trending…

MRC original graphic This week, the “Big Three” Networks and News Appsshielded fellow elitist liberal, Dr. Tony Fauci, largely ignoring bombshell revelations from his pandemic-era diariesreleased Saturday by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) before Wednesday’s Senate hearing and,following the proceedings, promulgating Fauci’s preferred framing of a “deep, partisan,” and “fiery” affair foisted upon him by Republicans.A Media Research Center…

Season 29 of ABC’s The View came ended last week amid an ongoing battle with the Federal Communications Commission over their purported status as a “bona fide news program,” which called into question their bias, their content, and their adherence to the so-called equal time rule for political candidates. Compared to a previous long-term study of The View’s guests, a new NewsBusters study discovered the number of guests to express a conservative political opinion more than doubled… to five,…

Media Research Center (Original) MRC Original: If there’s one thing that stands out whenever Abdul El-Sayed is pressed about his radical positions, it’s his smile. His nearly perfect teeth, neatly trimmed beard and laid-back black hair rarely seem out of place, no matter how hard-hitting the question.As it turns out, El-Sayed has plenty to smile about: he is leading in the polls for the Democratic Party primary for a Senate seat in…