The House Ethics Committee held their scheduled adjudicatory hearing, more commonly referred to as a “trial”, against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Sadly, none of the main broadcast network newscasts saw fit to carry the story.  PBS NewsHour did run that report. Here it is, as aired on Thursday, March 26th, 2026: Zero seconds on ABC, CBS, or NBC for the House Ethics Committee "trial" of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Only PBS picked up the story for NewsHour, and omitted the details of the charges against her. Coverage for Cherfilus-McCormick is significantly (D)ifferent than it… pic.twitter.com/JXtKs94ciw — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 27, 2026 JOHN YANG: Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who has been indicted for allegedly stealing millions in taxpayer money, faced a rare public Ethics Committee hearing in Congress today. The bipartisan panel, which hasn’t held a public hearing against a sitting member of the House in more than 15 years, began this investigation in 2023. Members questioned why they should delay their conclusion as she requests. MARK DESAULNIER: And the American people are entitled to demand accountability of all of us when their- if their elected representatives are without integrity.  YANG: Cherfilus-McCormick's lawyer joined the case less than three weeks ago. The congresswoman has denied any wrongdoing and has pleaded Not Guilty to the federal charges against her. The result of the ethics process could bring political consequences including possibly getting expelled from the House. The networks continue their ongoing blackout of this story. Not a second of it aired on ABC, CBS or ABC’s evening newscasts. This major omission joins their omission of the IOC’s ban on “trans women” during the 2028 Games and onward thereafter. The PBS item is not perfect, though. Viewers never once heard any detail of the egregious charges filed against Cherfilus-McCormick. Per the indictment:  The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source. Prosecutors allege that a substantial portion of the misappropriated funds was used as candidate contributions to Cherfilus-McCormick’s 2021 congressional campaign and for the personal benefit of the defendants. The indictment further alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick and Nadege Leblanc, 46, of Miramar, arranged additional contributions using straw donors, funneling other monies from the FEMA-funded Covid-19 contract to friends and relatives who then donated to the campaign as if using their own money. The congresswoman is also alleged to have purchased a $100,000 diamond ring. Had a Republican been accused of doing any of this, it would dominate news coverage nonstop until the person is no longer in Congress. We know this because this is exactly what happened with George Santos. The media drove the story until Santos was expelled from Congress. With Cherfilus-Mccormick, we get the contrary. Suppression in service of not letting the story get out into the public. If it weren’t for double standards, there would be none at all.  

Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to bar biological men from competing as women, beginning with the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The major broadcast evening newscasts all omitted the story. PBS NewsHour picked it up, in a report containing a significant omission. Watch the brief in its entirety as aired on PBS NewsHour on Thursday, March 26th, 2026: OMISSION: Zero seconds on ABC, CBS, or Olympics broadcast partner NBC on the IOC's decision to ban men cosplaying as women from competing in women's Olympic sports beginning with the 2028 Games in L.A. PBS runs the story, conveniently omitting the 2024 Imane Khelif fiasco pic.twitter.com/lXwKAxTqce — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 27, 2026 JOHN YANG: The International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women from competing -- beginning with the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. This aligns the IOC with President Trump's executive order barring transgender athletes from women's college sports. Athletes wanting to compete in women's events will have to undergo a one-time genetic test. To date, only one openly transgender woman has competed at the Olympics -- a weightlifter from New Zealand in 2021 who did not medal. Not a second of this aired on the ABC, CBS, or NBC evening newscasts. Doing so would have interfered with the networks’ universal coverage of the drunk driver that crashed the gate at Daytona Beach International Airport, sprinted across the tarmac, and attempted to board a plane mid-takeoff before being arrested by law enforcement.  PBS was the sole outlet covering the story, but the report as read by John Yang was fatally flawed. Note the framing about the New Zealand weightlifter being the only “openly transgender woman” to compete in the Games. The use of “openly” in this context seeks to omit a more notorious case that highlights the need for the ban in the first place. Per Fox News: Boxer Imane Khelif admitted to having the SRY gene, located on the Y chromosome, which is found in biological males, and undergoing hormone treatments to lower testosterone levels ahead of the 2024 Olympics in an interview with the French sports publication L'Equipe.  Khelif has denied being transgender.  "We all have different genetics, different hormone levels. I'm not transgender. My difference is natural. This is who I am. I haven't done anything to change the way nature made me. That's why I'm not afraid," Khelif said.  "I have taken hormone treatments to lower my testosterone levels for competitions." Yang makes no mention of the controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif during the 2024 Paris Games, because it obliterates the point with the non-medal-winning weightlifter. Khelif won Olympic women’s gold. What triggered the IOC decision, more than anything, were the chilling images of the Italian female boxer quitting mid-match because she’d never been hit as hard as when her face made contact with Khelif’s manly mitts.  This PBS report presumes either that viewers forgot about Khelif, don’t care, or agree that men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. This is one of those cases where the coverage of a story is objectively worse than if it were simply omitted from the newscast.  

Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old college student at Loyola University in Chicago, was shot dead by an illegal alien. The networks hate reporting on crime committed by illegal immigrants. They would insist it’s atypical. News loses to narrative, and that narrative is Trump is ruining everything. MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro joined the show to discuss the latest patterns in media bias, by downplaying or omission. Geoff has been working on their lack of interest in the SAVE Act, which is only up to four minutes, and mostly because President Trump has thrown it into the shutdown mix.  Managing editor Curtis Houck found the networks weren't motivated to cover Sheridan Gorman's death. CBS led with 2 minutes, followed by ABC at 79 seconds, NBC at 23 seconds. Searching for it on PBS or NPR found nothing. It's like the bus-stop stabbing death of Stephanie Minter in Fairfax County, Virginia by Abdul Jalloh, an illegal alien with more than 30 arrests. We didn't find that on the networks (including NPR).  You could get a hint of why these migrant crimes don't draw coverage. PBS just aired a documentary called White With Fear claiming conservatives exploit fear of a "brown menace" to gain power. Stories of crimes by illegal migrants are seen as racist or too pro-Trump to cover.  The media's advocacy for illegal aliens is also coming through during coverage of the DHS shutdown by the Democrats. The percentage of TV news stories mentioning the Democrats are holding up funding to gain "reforms" on immigration is actually declining as the coverage ramps up. The media are also trying to impair Trump in coverage of the Iran war, insisting that somehow the United States is losing. The Economist magazine out of Britain has a cover that reads “Advantage Iran.” Jon Levine tweeted “The Economist has become the Jim Cramer of foreign policy takes.” It's always wrong, in other words.  The two oldest cast members of ABC's The View, moderator Whoopi Goldberg (70) and Joy Behar (83) tapped into  anti-military hatred on Wednesday. While Joy was adamant that the U.S. military had “accomplished” nothing in Iran, Whoopi suggested all they were doing was dying and lectured Secretary of War Pete Hegseth about what it meant to be a soldier, without ever serving herself. President Trump promises that the war in Iran will be ending soon, but what never ends is the incessant mockery of Trump on late-night comedy shows. In the war's third week, our comedy counter Alex Christy found 97 percent of their jokes about the war in Iran were about our side, not Iran. President Trump was once again the most-joked individual with 78. None of their Iran jokes was about a Democrat. That’s why movie star Vince Vaughn said on Theo Von's podcast that these shows are losing their audience to podcasters:  “People just rejected it, because it didn’t feel authentic, it felt like they had an agenda.  It’s not being funny, and it started feeling like I was in… a class I didn’t want to take, do you know what I mean? I’m getting scolded!” It’s an easy joke about the media to claim that absolutely everything President Trump does is a “distraction from the Epstein files.” CNN host Laura Coates even claimed the annual State of the Union speech was planned as a distraction from Epstein. The late-night comedians underline this theme, too – in recent days about the war in Iran. Even a focus on Bill Clinton’s friendship with Epstein was described as a distraction from Trump’s problem. Our video editor Bill D’Agostino made a video that underlines how journalists and comedians described nearly everything that happened as a “distraction,” even if it was something Trump did on a very regular basis – like criticizing and fighting with liberal reporters. Enjoy the podcast below. Or the audio version can be found here. 

Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough continued his crusade to persuade viewers they had only Republicans to blame for the partial government shutdown and ensuing TSA problems. On Thursday’s edition of the MS NOW’s liberal morning show, Scarborough, once again, ignored the cause of the shutdown was Democrat wish of policy change and ICE reforms, which had led to much of DHS being defunded. Later in the show, after he and his co-host Mika Brzezinski called the SAVE America Act the “rig the elections act,” Scarborough mentioned the DHS shutdown again and said the show didn't think “you’re stupid” unlike other “programs.” As he has been for the past week, Scarborough solely placed blame on Republicans for the TSA issues at airports. He stated, “Democrats keep bringing it to the bill to get rid of this problem, and Republicans keep making this problem worse at the very time.” Scarborough then said Americans were not “too dumb to forget what happened on 9//11 and understand that Iran has promised that they’re going to strike America.”   This morning on MS NOW's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough yelled in rage at Republicans for being "stupid" amid TSA chaos, ignoring the actual reason for the partial shutdown was the Democrats wish for immigration policy change. pic.twitter.com/yoQhUCCZVt — Nick (@nspin310) March 26, 2026   At this point, Scarborough went into a rage and yelled at Republicans for being “stupid,” with an occasional Brzezinski chime in to keep him on track [Click “expand”]:  SCARBOROUGH: And we are letting down our line of defenses when Republicans have a chance every day, every day to get the TSA agents paid! Every day! You're so stupid. BRZEZINSKI: It's dangerous too.  SCARBOROUGH: First of all, it's dangerous. But politically, you're so stupid. You're so stupid to not force this through and pay our TSA agents. I'm here to tell you, prevent a tragedy from happening. Pay these people, okay? Because guess what? We all - we all can go to the airport and come home. We're fine, we're fine. I was happy to see Mika. We're fine. But TSA agents aren't fine. (...) Scarborough tried to calm himself down as he invoked John Lennon: Yes is the answer, as John Lennon said. And you know that for sure. Can I just finish this top playing your mind games? I love that song. I want to bump out with it.  But Republicans, please help yourself and save Americans. It's that simple. They say yes, and guess what? The TSA agents get paid. These lines go away. And our security against Iranian terror threats, poof. Dissipate. Ah yes, if everybody just said yes to everything, we’d live in paradise. Scarborough actually also said he was “totally fine” with “helpful” ICE agents at the airport:   Scarborough was also "totally, totally fine" seeing ICE agents at the airports, calling them "helpful." pic.twitter.com/pYcgDFicfY — Nick (@nspin310) March 26, 2026   Totally, totally fine. And nobody yell at me. I'm just saying. I'm just reporting everybody. Don't get crazy and pissed off when I say it. ICE agents were fine. They were helpful. That was just - no masks and, you know, nobody minded them being there. Another co-host of the show, who happens to be his wife, with an intense hatred of ICE may not be as fine with him. At the start of the 7 a.m. hour of the show, Scarborough and Brzezinski got into a deep conversation on the SAVE America Act, which they called the “rig the elections act.” In that conversation, Scarborough brought up TSA again and said his viewers we’re smart enough to understand it's all the Republicans fault:   In another conversation where Joe and Mika called the SAVE America Act a "rig the elections act," Scarborough reintroduced the government shutdown and said Morning Joe doesn't think "you're stupid" unlike other "programs." pic.twitter.com/WNmUxOR3EV — Nick (@nspin310) March 26, 2026   It's just - let's not complicate this. I know a lot of you people watch programs that think you're stupid, okay? We don't think you're stupid. We're just going to tell you how it is.  If Republicans had voted yes, if everybody said, “yeah, let's pay our TSA agents,” TSA agents would be paid right now. It's that simple. It really is. There is a constant ignorance of the cause of the shutdown on Morning Joe. The viewers might not all be “stupid” but they are being misinformed. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Morning Joe March 26, 2026 6:09:13 AM Eastern (...) SCARBOROUGH: And in a time of increased terror threats with Iran saying they're going to strike against American targets globally with the FBI, a couple of months ago, firing the people who knew the most about terror threats from Iran, for whatever stupid reason that was.  We are letting down our defenses at a time we should have double TSA agents, because Iran has been warning us for a decade that they - if we ever attack them, they would strike out against us domestically. They would start blowing things up in America. And what the Republicans are doing right now, they're voting no to paying TSA agents. They're voting no to pay TSA agents. Let me say it ten times. Democrats keep bringing it to the bill to get rid of this problem, and Republicans keep making this problem worse at the very time we need more TSA agents and not less. (...) 6:11:38 AM Eastern SCARBOROUGH: And let's be very clear, Willie. The gutting of these protections, intentional from the very beginning, DOGE was very intentional. They were going to gut the institutions that have protected this country and protected Americans for decades.  And they said it. We're going to gut it, you know, Steve Bannon said back in 2016, I'm a Leninist. I want and we want to tear this state to the ground. And they're doing it. And this is what's happening while we're going to war in Iran, while people are waiting three, four hours in line, and they're three or four TSA agents, and Iran is threatening terror attacks against America, and these Americans are not too old or not too dumb to forget what happened on 9/11, and understand that Iran has promised that they're going to strike America.  And we are letting down our line of defenses when Republicans have a chance every day, every day to get the TSA agents paid! Every day! You're so stupid. BRZEZINSKI: It's dangerous too.  SCARBOROUGH: First of all, it's dangerous. But politically, you're so stupid. You're so stupid to not force this through and pay our TSA agents. I'm here to tell you, prevent a tragedy from happening. Pay these people, okay? Because guess what? We all - we all can go to the airport and come home. We're fine, we're fine. I was happy to see Mika. We're fine. But TSA agents aren't fine. The people who actually have to get to Houston or have to get to San Diego, or have to get to Minneapolis for their work. BRZEZINSKI: Or medical care. SCARBOROUGH: Or for medical care, or to take care of a sick grandchild, or to take care of a sick mother or father. They're not okay because of you. Because you keep voting no on an up or down vote on whether you pay TSA agents or not. And then you try to say, oh it's very complicated, Democrats are saying - No. BRZEZINSKI: You’re in charge. SCARBOROUGH: Yes is the answer, as John Lennon said. And you know that for sure. Can I just finish this top playing your mind games? I love that song. I want to bump out with it.  But Republicans, please help yourself and save Americans. It's that simple. They say yes, and guess what? The TSA agents get paid. These lines go away. And our security against Iranian terror threats, poof. Dissipate. (...) 6:14:57 AM Eastern WILLIE GEIST: So now you've got ICE agents in the airport. Some of them now are being asked to scan people's IDs and get people through. SCARBOROUGH: By the way, I saw the ICE agents yesterday. Totally fine.  GEIST: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: Totally, totally fine. And nobody yell at me. I'm just saying. I'm just reporting everybody. Don't get crazy and pissed off when I say it. ICE agents were fine. They were helpful. That was just - no masks and, you know, nobody minded them being there. GEIST: Yes, but they're not expediting the lines. They're there to provide security, which is fine. SCARBOROUGH: But we actually need the TSA agents to do their jobs. (...) 7:02:08 AM Eastern SCARBOROUGH: And ten times they voted not to pay our TSA agents. Ten times, Wilie. They had a chance to avert a major security crisis that's coming from Iran now. Certainly our airports, this will be seen as a soft target when you have, what I saw yesterday, four TSA agents handling a line with - that went for three hours and Republicans keep voting no. I want to say it again. Republicans keep voting no. Republicans keep making this happen because they keep voting no for TSA funding. It's just - let's not complicate this. I know a lot of you people watch programs that think you're stupid, okay? We don't think you're stupid. We're just going to tell you how it is.  If Republicans had voted yes, if everybody said, “yeah, let's pay our TSA agents,” TSA agents would be paid right now. It's that simple. It really is. I mean, is Donald Trump going to veto it? If he does, then it'll be Donald Trump. See, that's what it is. They don't want Donald Trump to be exposed as being the guy that vetoes a bill that would pay our TSA agents. So they're trying to protect him from being embarrassed. And what's he doing this morning? He's saying, let's pass the rig the elections act, an act that's not about voter id because I support voter ID. BRZEZINSKI: Not about saving America. SCARBOROUGH: I support voter ID. 85 percent of Americans support a voter ID. Bring your driver's license or some other ID to vote. It makes good sense to me. It always has. But that's not what this bill is. This bill actually stops the type of voting that the president and his own family use, and also disallows 45 states driver's licenses from being used as voter ID. So it's to rig the election. It's plain and simple. And they're holding our TSA agent salaries hostage, Willie. (...).

Status founder and former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter site Tuesday night for a psychotic tut-tutting over the supposed grave of CBS News under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, claiming Weiss’s “catastrophic,” “turbulent” tenure’s “five-alarm fire” has “destroyed” the “trust” “smart” viewers have in the brand in favor of acknowledging humanity in “the MAGA movement.” With networks looking to promote their allies and spoil their opponents using first-quarter ratings, Darcy chose to take this ball and run with it, starting in the second sentence: But through a series of actions over her turbulent six-month tenure as editor in chief, it appears the proud anti-woke warrior has instead helped destroy that trust—something that is now laid bare in the network’s rapidly shrinking ratings. Indeed, new ratings data obtained by Status isn’t just bad for Weiss. It is catastrophic. This pompous prick then boasted Dokoupil’s poised to have the network’s “lowest-rated first quarter of the 21st century in both total viewers and the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic” at “4.3 million viewers” and “just 541,000 viewers” in the “35-54 audience.” Notice the accounting gimmick he deployed. Unless it was a typo, talk about some shuffling of the deck. He also argued Weiss’s presence has caused Dokoupil’s former show in CBS Mornings to also tank (although Weiss has not exerted any reported influence over) to record-lows of “1.8 million total viewers” and “35-54 audience...to 268,000.” “[T]he network’s two flagship daily news programs are seeing their audiences collapse. It’s a remarkable feat, given the unrelenting torrent of headlines emerging from Washington and–now thanks to a war...[T]he numbers from CBS News are an anomaly...where ABC News and NBC News, are both set to post year-over-year gains in total audience in both the mornings and evenings,” he added. Of course, Darcy purposefully left out the sad-but-true fact about why NBC’s newscasts — and Today (plus 15 percent total viewers) in particular — have seen a gain in ratings for 2026: Nancy Guthrie. Weiss’s wife Nellie Bowles mocked a chart showing the last seven months of evening news ratings (which, not-so-coincidentally, The Wrap and others have also taken up to bash Dokoupil): Simply a catastrophe!!! https://t.co/E6FbBmc6JY — Nellie Bowles (@NellieBowles) March 26, 2026 In other words, all three network evening newscasts have seen a drop in March. That didn’t stop Darcy from piling on his vindictive gruel, mocking Dokoupil’s ratings as “an especially brutal outcome because the bar was so low for him to begin with” given the struggles of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois and his “high-profile launch–complete with...an expensive “Live From America” tour[.]” A chieftain of the Bluesky Brigade, Darcy tried to have it both ways by both mocking Dokoupil’s numbers and then arguing CBS is chasing away valuable viewers: “Of course, it is not hard to see why. Viewers are smart. They understand that under David Ellison’s ownershoip, and with Weiss at the helm, CBS News has charted a new course for the network–one that is friendlier to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement he leads.” Yes, Oliver. The whole world thinks like you. Like seemingly all of CBS News’s critics on the left (and right), none of them actually watch CBS News to begin with. Case in point: Darcy’s Dokoupil examples were all from the first two weeks and the 60 Minutes item was from January: That has played out in a string of high-profile incidents in recent months: Dokoupil’s cringe-inducing on-air “salute” to Marco Rubio; the ride-along segment with Kristi Noem during an immigration raid; the both-sides report marking the January 6 insurrection; the softball Trump interview, in which the supposedly transparent broadcast did not report a brazen legal threat Karoline Leavitt delivered on behalf of the president to the program; and so much more. That is not to mention Weiss’ unprecedented intervention stalling the “60 Minutes” story on the notorious CECOT prison in Venezuela, her failed attempts to recruit Fox News and MAGA personalities, her chasing away of talent like Anderson Cooper and Scott MacFarlane, and more. Darcy made one factual error. In the Noem mention, it was homeland security and justice correspondent Nicole Sganga, not Dokoupil (although he interviewed here for CBS Mornings in April 2025). An anonymous smear later from “a television news veteran” he quoted twice, Darcy excitedly said “CBS News’ new direction...does not appear to be pleasing the CBS News audience” and thus been “driving loyal viewers away” that “should” be “a five-alarm fire for Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski.” He closed by openly rooting for an end to their tenures (and thus a pivot to a glorified MeidasTouch or TV version of The Atlantic), arguing they face “a brutal uphill battle” and continued “bleeding” since the world sees CBS as “no longer reflect[ing] their values or delivers the kind of aggressive journalism they expect[.]” In 2026, the CBS Evening News has not been spared of incoming fire from NewsBusters as we’ve penned dozens of stories calling out liberal narratives. So, no matter how hard Darcy and his ilk insist its “MAGA-coded” TV, we’ll continue to call balls and strikes and praise them when they show a commitment to all Americans and slam them when they fall short. We’ll see if this gets our Status account suspended.