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Thursday marked the end of an era, albeit a brief one. CBS’s After Midnight hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, and executive produced by fellow CBS comedian Stephen Colbert, aired its last episode early Friday morning.  After Midnight was originally advertised as a different kind of late night show. There would be no monologues, just a game show where a trio of comedians would improv answers to the host’s questions, usually based off of some viral social media post. However, starting on May 20, 2024…

Left-wing cable networks CNN and MSNBC have spent the past week serving as public relations officials for the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, California. Both networks have almost exclusively described the turmoil as “peaceful,” while taking great pains to downplay or outright dismiss the chaos and violence. MRC analysts looked at all coverage on CNN and MSNBC from June 7 through June 11 that aired between 5:00 am and 11:59 pm ET, finding 211 instances in which anchors, guests, or reporters…

UPDATE: Terry Moran was fired from ABC News on June 10. ABC News’ suspension of Terry Moran comes too late. Moran has been a powder-keg of bias that was due to blow up at any moment. On Sunday, his hatred exploded with this attack on Donald Trump’s domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller:  “The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’…

Leftist journalists remain in a constant state of absolute hysteria over President Donald Trump. They’re scaring their audiences into believing that the “country is in peril” because Trump is taking America down an “authoritarian path” that will keep him in “power for life.” This past month saw CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley scare students during a commencement address as he told them the “country was in peril,” as the “rule of law,” and “freedom of speech” were “under attack” from…

Back in January, when Elon Musk made an strange hand gesture which resembled a Nazi or Roman salute while celebrating President Trump’s inauguration, the corporate media were eager to conclude that Musk’s on-stage awkwardness must categorically make him a Nazi. Yet last week, when Democratic Senator Cory Booker made an identical motion at the end of a speech in California, none of those same journalists even noticed. MRC analysts looked at all left-wing cable (CNN and MSNBC) and broadcast (…

The questionable sincerity of CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s devout Catholicism was on display for the second straight night as The Late Show host welcomed actress Cynthia Erivo to hype her upcoming role as Jesus, telling her that her casting as the “first woman to play Jesus in a major production, long overdue.” Colbert began, “One of my favorite musicals of all time is Jesus Christ Superstar. I love that—and I'm so excited that in August you're going to be playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar.…

Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS still have yet to utter a single word about the radical left-wing politics of the man who allegedly gunned down two Israeli embassy employees on Wednesday evening in Washington D.C. In the first 24 hours after the attack, across their live-streaming and flagship morning and evening news programs, all of these networks, as well as MSNBC, stubbornly concealed both the shooter’s political leanings — including his membership with the radical left-wing…

On Tuesday, CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, is officially out. Prior to its release, bombshells were dropped about how Biden didn’t recognize longtime associates, even actor George Clooney.  So how much time did the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS) devote to the recitation of Biden’s shortcomings long known by conservatives but suppressed by Tapper and his press colleagues?  MRC analysts…

Which way is it? On the one hand leftist journalists complain that Donald Trump is violating the Constitution with his attacks on the media, judges, universities and his deportation of illegal immigrants.   On the other hand, why should they care? Since some of them think the Constitution is worthless anyway?  This past month The Nation justice correspondent and frequent MSNBC contributor Elie Mystal called our founding document a “piece of crap.”  Yet the likes of New York Times columnist…

On Tuesday night, ABC News will air a prime time special featuring correspondent Terry Moran’s interview with President Donald Trump to talk about the first 100 days of the administration. Expect a hostile interview.  In his coverage of Trump, Moran has called Trump a “Fuhrer,” and accused him of “stirring racist fears,” with his “Neo-Nazi ways.” In sharp contrast, Moran has been soft-hearted in his coverage of Democrats and progressives. In 2009, Moran gushed: “Barack Obama is the first…

Just 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, the broadcast evening news landscape is even more lopsided than it was eight years ago, when Trump was besieged with relentlessly hostile coverage. So far this year, the new Trump administration has faced a withering 92% negative coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, whose flagship news programs averaged more than 19.3 million viewers during the first quarter of 2025, making them the most widely-watched news programs in the country. For this…

For weeks, liberal TV news have showered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s legal team with friendly press. So far this month, the attorneys defending Garcia, the deported illegal alien from El Salvador, have sat for 28 friendly interviews on corporate media airwaves, or more than one per day. MRC analysts combed through SnapStream recordings and Nexis transcripts from April 1 through April 23 for every interview of Garcia’s attorneys on liberal broadcast (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and cable (CNN and MSNBC)…

This past week, the Trump administration revealed more incriminating evidence about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien recently deported to El Salvador despite a withholding of removal to that country. Yet liberal cable networks CNN and MSNBC have mostly ignored the latest developments, and instead have continued to obfuscate the truth about this so-called “Maryland man.” Summary of Findings: CNN and MSNBC referred to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a “Maryland man” or similar terminology a…

It’s a tale of two different illegal immigrant cases.  On April 14, a Maryland jury found Salvadoran illegal immigrant Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez guilty of the horrific rape and murder of Rachel Morin. The Maryland mother of five’s 2023 murder was just one of many high profile cases of illegal immigrant crimes that resulted from former President Joe Biden’s border crisis.  In fact, the attorney for the Morin family has squarely blamed Biden’s immigration policies for her death,…

Over the past two weeks, broadcast networks were utterly consumed by news of the Trump administration’s tariffs, to the degree that the topic took up more than a third of their flagship morning and evening newscasts’ total run time. Yet during that same time period, these networks spared barely any time at all to cover some of the positive economic news, such as the declining Consumer Price Index and a stronger-than-expected jobs report. MRC analysts looked at all coverage of tariffs on ABC,…