MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: 1)Trade Deficit Lowest in 5 Years, Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs - Media and Analysts Shocked 2) MRC Has Receipts: Wikipedia Cites Leftist Outlets Nearly 20x More Often than Right 3) Labeling Imbalance Persists at PBS After Trump Rescinded Federal Funding 4) Apple News Shows ONLY 1 Right-Leaning Outlet Out of 560 Articles Throughout November 5) Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too   1) Trade Deficit Lowest in 5 Years, Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs - Media and Analysts Shocked Lowest Trade Deficit in Five Years: The Commerce Department reported that the U.S. goods and services trade deficit in September fell to $52.8 billion, the lowest monthly level since June 2020. This significant reduction shows that the trade strategy was effective in meeting the stated goal of narrowing the deficit. Surge in Exports: The decrease in the deficit was driven primarily by a 3.0% increase in exports, which "dwarfed" the 0.6% rise in imports. Furthermore, the $289.3 billion value of exports was the second-highest monthly total on record, demonstrating a robust positive impact on U.S. sales abroad. Media and Analyst Surprise (The "Unexpected" Outcome): The fact that analysts predicted the deficit would grow (to $62.5-$63.5 billion) and the media consistently used the word "unexpectedly" highlights that the positive result defied conventional economic wisdom and media pessimism regarding the tariff policy. Even typically critical outlets like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal "begrudgingly" gave the administration credit for achieving its goal of balancing the deficit. 2) MRC Has Receipts: Wikipedia Cites Leftist Outlets Nearly 20x More Often than Right Extreme Citation Imbalance: Wikipedia overwhelmingly favors left-leaning sources, citing them nearly 20 times more often than right-leaning outlets (5,320,017 citations vs. 292,250 citations). This data, compiled by MRC Free Speech America researchers across all languages, demonstrates a massive, systemic bias in the online encyclopedia's references. Official Blacklist Mechanism: This citation disparity is not accidental, but a direct result of how Wikipedia operates. Its editors rely on a list of designated "reliable sources" that overwhelmingly approves left-wing media (like CNN and Mother Jones) while effectively restricting or banning right-of-center media, proving that the bias is built into the site's editorial policy. Promotion of Specific Allegations: The biased citations result in Wikipedia pages actively promoting a leftist agenda and including specific, politically charged content. Examples provided in the article include claims of "white supremacist" views against Vice President JD Vance, blood libel accusations against Israel, and a "misinformation" jab placed on Charlie Kirk's page immediately after his assassination. The figures remained uneven after President Trump signed the bill rescinding federal funding from PBS and NPR on July 24, with 11 variations of “far-right” labels and 2 of “far-left” ones. Overall, the post-July 24 labeling disparity was 17-9. (Note: Coverage of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk began September 10, 2025, which may have skewed the post-July 24 raw figures somewhat toward balance.) 3) Labeling Imbalance Persists at PBS After Trump Rescinded Federal Funding MRC analysts counted up the “left-wing” and “right-wing” style ideological labels used by anchors, reporters, and contributors on the PBS News Hour regarding American politics from December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2025. PBS News Weekend programs were not included. PBS staff used 44 variations of "far-right" labels and only 4 of "far-left" labels, a ratio of 11:1. PBS staff also used mere "right-wing" and "left-wing" labels at a disparity of 17-12. So overall, the labeling disparity was 61-16. The figures remained uneven after President Trump signed the bill rescinding federal funding from PBS and NPR on July 24, with 11 variations of “far-right” labels and 2 of “far-left” ones. Overall, the post-July 24 labeling disparity was 17-9. (Note: Coverage of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk began September 10, 2025, which may have skewed the post-July 24 raw figures somewhat toward balance.) 4) Apple News Shows ONLY 1 Right-Leaning Outlet Out of 560 Articles Throughout November Apple News Delivers Stark Ideological Imbalance: Throughout November 2025, Apple News showcased only one right-leaning outlet (The Telegraph, a British source) in its top 20 daily stories—out of 560 articles reviewed—exposing a near-total blackout on conservative perspectives in a platform reaching millions of users. Major U.S. Conservative Voices Silenced Despite Popularity: No prominent American right-leaning outlets like Fox News, Daily Mail, or New York Post cracked the top 20, even though they rank among the highest-traffic U.S. news sites—proving Apple News prioritizes curation over consumer demand. Left-Leaning Dominance Floods the Feed: Radical leftist sources like Vox, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Vice overwhelmed the top slots, alongside staples like The Washington Post, NBC News, and Al Jazeera—turning Apple News into an echo chamber for progressive narratives. Even Token Conservatism Is Locked Away: The solitary right-leaning article was buried behind an Apple News+ paywall, denying free users access and underscoring Big Tech's agenda to marginalize dissenting views—time to demand transparency and fairness for all. 5) Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too Biden's Ideological Folly Ignored Warnings, Unleashing Chaos: Despite pre-election memos from top aides in August 2020 warning of a massive border surge from lax enforcement and pent-up demand, the administration's partisan push flooded the U.S. with millions of illegal immigrants—proving ideology and incompetence trumped common sense, as admitted by former ICE official Deborah Fleischaker: "I don’t think we ever recovered." Mainstream Media's Delayed "Postgame" Coverage Betrayed the Public: Outlets like The New York Times buried the immigration crisis for years—treating it as yesterday's news only in late 2025—mirroring their silence on Biden's senility, leaving voters in the dark while conservative alarms rang unanswered and enabling Democratic denial until electoral disaster struck. Abbott's Busing Genius Exposed Blue-State Hypocrisy: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's strategic transport of tens of thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities like New York and Denver shattered Democrats' plan to dump the crisis on red states, forcing elite voters to face the consequences and marking the turning point where Biden's team lost the immigration debate for good.  

PBS’s Amanpour & Co., which is simulcast on CNN International, hosted guest Demetre Daskalakis on Monday’s edition and repped his appearance in an email with the subject line: “‘People Will Die:’ Fmr. CDC Official Warns Against HIV/AIDS Cuts.” Daskalakis resigned as director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases in August.   A deeper dive into the history of Daskaslakis’s politically correct hypocrisy during his Biden-era term at the Centers for Disease Control would have been instructive. But all we got from guest host Bianna Golodryga was commiseration against the ignorant rule of Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Golodryga explained that “In August, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigned from the CDC, accusing the agency under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of ignoring science." The first item in his talk with reporter Hari Sreenivasan: The Trump Administration's awful failure to promote the purely symbolic World Aids Day. Daskalakis was asked about the discontinuation of the USAID program PEPFAR, which fights AIDS via antiretroviral therapy in the Third World. DASKALAKIS: PEPFAR's future is tenuous at best....if PEPFAR goes away, that means stopping the entire story. And, you know, that's going to not mean just some strange policy issue, it's going to mean that people will die. Sreenivasan mildly challenged his guest with what he termed “the State Department's rationale, we're thinking is, look, we have to stop being the people that are the only ones that are writing the check. We have to transition this to the host countries." Daskalakis conveniently donned a patriotic hat and warned that to cut off U.S. taxpayer funding would be immoral, given America's “moral responsibility.” DASKALAKIS: ….I think the other part that is important is, you know, the U.S. is the global leader in public health. It is our moral responsibility to support these countries. And if we decide to change our funding strategy, we need to do it in a way that, in fact, does not let people die…. Asked why HIV was still a large “public health problem in the United States,” Daskalakis blamed….not celebrating World AIDS Day. Yes, really. DASKALAKIS: Your answer is what happens when the country decides not to celebrate or commemorate World AIDS Day. This is a stigma and access game in the United States. People do not access care. They don't access testing because it's scary. It -- people are made invisible because of the stigma that is getting even worse in the United States with some of the activity against LGBT people are made invisible because of the stigma that is getting even worse in the United States with some of the activity against LGBTQ health…. Daskalakis’s hysterical anti-Trump rants went unmentioned, like when he appeared on MSNBC (MSNOW) to screech “This is where fascism lives” after resigning in a huff in a letter that referred to “pregnant people” – a detail that alone should disqualify him from any position of medical expertise (men can’t get pregnant, as most of us know). He has also posed for public photos wearing a leather pentagram harness and downplayed the sexually transmitted disease Monkeypox for libertine reasons. Schools were shuttered at the small risk of COVID spread, but promiscuous nightlife was protected. As Daskalakis himself said, “You know, one person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night.”

The left-wing media have shown no signs of ending their obsession with the U.S. military conducting a "second hit", ordered on a boat that was allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean back in September. That obsession, along with a new one focused on President Trump's remarks on Somalia, continued on Wednesday afternoon's CNN News Central, with co-host Boris Sanchez doing battle against Florida Republican Congressman Randy Fine, who was not having any of the usual lefirst talking points.  Fine politely tore apart so much of Sanchez's leftist propaganda, which started with the infamous video of that second strike: SANCHEZ: Shouldn't the American people be able to see this footage in order to draw their own conclusions about what happened? FINE: Well, I trust the President's judgment. If he doesn't think we need to see it, if he thinks it can be classified and should just be limited to intel briefings, then I support that. That's why they send us up here to look out for the interests of the American people. That's why we classify some information, and I support whatever decision gets made there. When Sanchez asked in a follow-up "why not just show it to the American people the way they have so many of these other strikes," Fine responded in part by stating the obvious that the incident has been "politicized," adding: "Democrats have chosen to stand with drug dealers. Make no mistake, they're not blowing up pleasure cruises or fishing boats. They're blowing up people whose goal is to addict and kill Americans by running drugs into this country. That's something that we used to all support, which is fighting the importation of fentanyl and cocaine into this country." But, wait, there was more! Sanchez took offense to this characterization: "There is a legal process for adjudicating drug traffickers, Congressman...One person was apparently left to die in the ocean. Two were actually picked up and sent back to their home countries. What do you think the protocol should be for handling the survivors of these strikes?" Sanchez probably wasn't expecting this forceful of an answer: "I've got to be honest with you. I don't really care what happens to drug dealers and drug runners. I'm worried about the American people whose families are being savaged by these drugs. Whatever happens to them happens to them. I don't care. They know what they're getting into, and I support the President in doing everything possible to stop it." Sanchez responded as you might expect: "But do they pose an imminent threat to the United States if their ship has been blown up? They're floating out in the ocean...How are they a threat to American people in that regard if they're just floating out there?" Still not willing to give an inch, Fine doubled down: "The fact of the matter is these are ships that are full of drugs who have one purpose, which is to addict and kill Americans. The President is doing the right thing. He's taking action that should have been taken long ago. And it's shocking to me that every member of Congress doesn't support it." The CNN co-host more or less conceded as he switched topics: SANCHEZ: On a separate issue, Congressman, last night, President Trump again described Somalia as filthy, also lamenting that the U.S. lets in migrants from shithole countries -- his words -- like Somalia, Afghanistan and Haiti, while not having people come from Norway, Sweden or Denmark...I wonder if you're comfortable with a hierarchy of which nationalities and races belong or do not belong in this country. FINE: Well, I'm not comfortable with a hierarchy of races and the President isn't either. But not all cultures are equal and not all countries are equal. There are some people who come to this country to add value and there are some that come to this country to take value...And the President speaks in language that Americans understand. He is blunt. (....) SANCHEZ: Wasn't the country founded on the premise that you could come here irrespective of what your beliefs are?...Do you not see how some of what you're saying offends those people? FINE: Absolutely. But immigration to this country was not supposed to be a free check to get all the welfare that you want, which is why I have filed a bill that would ban not only illegal immigrants, but legal immigrants from getting any form of government program... Same old, same old from Sanchez. Not so in the responses from Fine, who was totally unafraid in telling it like it is, to CNN.

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons has shared “the perfect way” for so-called “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens like Illinois if want to keep ICE agents from running enforcement operations in their areas. In an interview with Co-anchor Dana Perino on America’s Newsroom this week, Lyons discussed how Illinois the state has released 1,768 criminal illegal aliens since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, despite ICE’s detainer requests. Perino noted that criminal offenses by those illegal aliens released back onto Illinois’ streets include, include: Homicide Assault Burglary Robbery Drug offenses Weapon offenses Sexual predator offenses What’s more, Illinois law enforcement has another four thousand criminal illegal aliens in custody that it could turn over to ICE, but is refusing to do so. In Chicago, for example, sanctuary politicians actively resisted ICE efforts to round up illegal alien criminals, ICE noted in a press release: “ICE continues to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens as part of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, despite resistance from activists and sanctuary politicians like Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson.” On Wednesday, Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill designed to actively thwart ICE agents’ efforts to enforce federal immigration laws in his state – a move the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says violates the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. But, if people don’t want ICE agents in their neighborhoods, there’s a simpler way to keep them out, Lyons said: “This is a chance for them to turn over over four thousand criminally illegal aliens that are felons. “And if people don’t want ICE doing enforcement operations in their neighborhoods, this is a perfect way to work with:  turn over these criminal aliens – because that’s who we’re out there looking for.”  

Had a Republican Member of Congress referred to a terror attack as an “unfortunate accident”, been called out after the fact and then corrected to “unfortunate situation”, you would see that story garner significant A-block time across the legacy media nightly news. But when the calculus is, shall we say: (D)ifferent? Crickets.  Had a Republican Member of Congress referred to a terror attack as an “unfortunate accident”, been called out after the fact and then corrected to “unfortunate situation”, you would see that story garner significant A-block time across the legacy media nightly news. But when the calculus is, shall we say: (D)ifferent? Crickets. Watch as former House January 6th Commission Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MI) diminishes a terrorist attack as an “accident”, then “situation”: DISGUSTING. .@BennieGThompson, the shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. was not an "unfortunate accident.” It was a TERRORIST attack. The Afghan nationals who entered the United States under Operation Allies Welcome were unvetted. @Sec_Noem and DHS will find out who they… pic.twitter.com/pH6qZOurjJ — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 11, 2025 Thompson wasn’t the only one, either. Here’s Texas Congresswoman Julie Johnson saying that the National Guardsmen were shot in the head out of frustration over immigration policy. SICK: Rep. Julie Johnson says National Guard members were shot in the head in a terror attack "because people are frustrated and they are channeling that frustration." pic.twitter.com/ayw1K3R9tf — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 11, 2025 One can recall when the networks routinely plumbed such hearings for outrage. Now, there just isn’t time. NBC was the sole network to cover the hearing, and even then only as an addendum tacked on to another story:  28 seconds at NBC is what the legacy nightlies devoted to the depravity on display at yesterday's contentious Hill hearing. And even then, while NBC shows Bennie Thompson footage there is ZERO play of the "unfortunate accident" exchange with DHSSEC Noem. pic.twitter.com/3L2Zp0Nl96 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 12, 2025 NBC NIGHTLY NEWS 12/11/25 6:41 PM TOM LLAMAS: There was also a heated hearing on The Hill today involving Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem? RYAN NOBLES: That's right, Tom. Secretary Noem was grilled by lawmakers on the Trump Administration's mass deportation program and the type of people that are being targeted by ICE agents. At one point Secretary Noem ended the hearing early saying that she had a meeting at The White House, but that meeting had been cancelled, confusion that The White House chalked up to miscommunication. Tom. LLAMAS: OK, Ryan Nobles with that new reporting tonight. That scant 28 seconds at NBC was countered by straight omission at CBS and ABC. There was simply no time to show the diminution of a horrendous terror attack on our nation’s capital at ABC- that would’ve cut into the network’s trademark nonlethal traffic accident reporting (bus hits a Manhattan building). Likewise, CBS had no time at all (but I did learn that Silent Cal Coolidge kept raccoons as housepets, so there’s that). Overall, yet another reminder that if it weren’t for media double standards, there would be none at all.