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: MRC Study Exposes Full Corporate Media Blackout of Henry Nowak's Brutal Murder  MRC Exposes Jimmy Kimmel Using Peabody Award Speech to Bash America  MRC Catches CNN Panelists Giving Passing Grade to Progressive Politician in Sexting Scandal    MRC Study Exposes Full Corporate Media Blackout of Henry Nowak's Brutal Murder An exclusive Media Research Center study reveals a total broadcast news blackout regarding the horrific leaked bodycam footage of a dying 18 year old college student, Henry Nowak of the U.K.   The combined broadcast coverage across CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS stands at exactly zero seconds.  The study also caught the Big Four news apps, Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo, actively scrubbing and suppressing international reporting of the case from their primary user feeds.  This coordinated censorship proves the global corporate media apparatus will intentionally hide absolute institutional corruption if the victim does not fit their approved narrative matrix.   MRC Exposes Jimmy Kimmel Using Peabody Award Speech to Bash America  An MRC NewsBusters analysis caught late night host Jimmy Kimmel using his platform at the prestigious Peabody Awards to declare that the United States has gone to garbage.  The Hollywood elite gathered at the event eagerly applauded the attack, showcasing the deep disconnect between coastal media celebrities and everyday Americans.  This toxic rhetoric highlights a broader trend where major entertainment figures use industry honors to degrade the country rather than celebrate artistic achievement.  The MRC continues to document how left wing media elite weaponize award ceremonies to push partisan narratives onto the public.   MRC Catches CNN Panelists Giving Passing Grade to Graham Platner in Sexting Scandal  An MRC review of legacy network coverage reveals that a prominent CNN panel actively excused and minimized a massive Graham Platner text message scandal.  The network pundits explicitly dismissed the controversy by arguing that voters are skipping the purity test when evaluating their favored political figures.  This soft defense exposes a glaring double standard compared to the immediate, non stop character assassination the network directs at conservatives facing similar scrutiny.  By framing a serious ethical breach as a minor distraction, the corporate media continues to act as a public relations shield for the political establishment.          

One way you can appreciate that America is a free country is that the Left feels free to dump on the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. The New Yorker can ask “How Problematic Is Patriotism?” Their answer is “very problematic.” MS NOW host Ali Velshi channeled this spirit on May 31. He fussed that “America has never actually fully reckoned with its racist past and its original founding sin of slavery. In one month, America will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding. Like previous anniversaries, there is a deep unease about this. I feel a deep unease about the celebrations to which I am invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy.” Go back to Canada? MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi thinks America is a mess, not worth celebrating: "I feel a deep unease about the celebrations to which I am invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy." MS NOW sounds like Al-Jazeera. pic.twitter.com/74FqKkiNjM — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 3, 2026 Our “so-called democracy.” This is how leftists talk when their party is out of power. The Voting Rights Act has been “gutted,” Velshi proclaimed, causing redistricting with "the explicit effect of taking political power away from black Americans.” This complaint relies on the argument that blacks only have voting rights if they can vote other blacks into power – and not just any blacks, but black Democrats. These lecturers are never pressed about whether black Republicans count as blacks – because the Congressional Black Caucus refuses to accept them. They kvetch about America being profoundly racist, but aren’t forced to admit that many black members of Congress are elected in white-majority (or white-plurality) districts or states. Velshi touted his MS NOW colleague, professor Eddie Glaude, and his new book America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries. On the Left, America is forever tagged as racist, and anniversaries are all about cultivating a harmful “mythology” of American greatness. Velshi read a passage: “American double consciousness is the consequence of a nation that defines itself with the foundational principle of the equality of men and, yet, holds others as chattel or resigns them to second-class status….The principle and the practice cannot coexist without contradictions, and to hold them together, as if they can, is a form of madness.” Speaking of “mythology,” which black Americans are presently being held as chattel in this country? If patriotic Americans are accused of denial of America’s past, the Glaudes of the world can be charged with a denial of the American present. They cannot accept the contradiction that we’ve made progress and we no longer have chattel slavery, and black Americans have full voting rights. Glaude appeared on Velshi’s program to suggest the people celebrating this anniversary are racists exploiting the notion of patriotism: “White nationalists have seized control over the federal government, and they're trying to put forward, they've made their choice, the double consciousness that you talked about at the beginning, that America imagines itself as a beacon of freedom and as a white republic.” MS NOW's Eddie Glaude on America at 250: “White nationalists have seized control over the federal government, and they're trying to put forward, they've made their choice, the double consciousness that you talked about at the beginning, that America imagines itself as a beacon of… pic.twitter.com/TTDv01FTlz — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 3, 2026 Glaude asserted the Left has been “ushering in a multi-racial democracy,” and Team Trump is tearing it down, both through detaining illegal immigrants at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and “disenfranchisement of black folk over there. It’s all one and the same.” MS NOW will claim any laments over the mass importation of immigrants distorting democracy constitute a “conspiracy theory,” but it’s somehow not a conspiracy theory to say all of America’s happy patriots are historic echoes of Klansmen, out to eviscerate black and Latino voting rights. Glaude claimed: “Fundamentally, you have people who assume that this country must be and must remain a white nation, and they will do anything, even destroy the basic foundations of democracy to make it so.” This is how MS NOW distorts Independence Day into an anti-Juneteenth – a holiday only celebrated by white supremacists. That’s a ludicrous argument.

The senseless murder and callous police intervention in the murder of Henry Nowak have stirred outrage and protests in the United Kingdom but had not yet garnered coverage in the United States. NBC Nightly News is now the first network evening newscast to cover that awful story. The underlying events, as summarized by our own Bill D’Agostino: On the evening of December 3, 2025, Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old British college student in Southampton, England was violently murdered while walking home. He was stabbed five times by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, the British-born son of Sikh Indian nationals.  When the police arrived on the scene they handcuffed Nowak, not Digwa, after Digwa lied to officers that Nowak had “racially abused” him. As Nowak was handcuffed and dragged by officers, he pleaded with them repeatedly for help, insisting he couldn’t breathe, and he’d been stabbed. One officer replied: “I don’t think you have, mate.” He died just minutes after being cuffed. The networks were able to suppress the story so long as bodycam video was not available. Once the bodycam video was released, though, NBC became the first to move forward. Here is the full report as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026: WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews is the first U.S. broadcast network newscast to report on the callous police response to the horrific murder of Henry Nowak. TOM LLAMAS: We're going to head overseas because there are massive protests erupting in the UK tonight over new body cam video… pic.twitter.com/BK2U7vwrI4 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 3, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: We're going to head overseas because there are massive protests erupting in the UK tonight over new body cam video showing police handcuffing a white student while he was dying. The anger boiling over onto the streets and reaching the highest levels of the government. Kelly O'Donnell has this one. KELLY O'DONNELL: Tonight, a flash point in the United Kingdom. Chants of, “I can't breathe.” Public anger boiled over, with demonstrators aiming at police. That demonstration echoes the words of an 18-year-old, Henry Nowak, heard in newly released police body camera footage. HENRY NOWAK: I can’t breathe! O’DONNELL: Nowak, who was stabbed multiple times, died in police custody after he attempted to tell officers he was hurt. The actions of police officers who handcuffed the wounded man under new scrutiny. POLICE OFFICER: You all right? NOWAK: ..mate, I’ve been stabbed. POLICE OFFICER: You’ve been stabbed? Whereabouts? O'DONNELL: Nowak, who was white, died last December. The new uproar followed Monday's murder conviction of 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, who is Sikh. The controversy centered on how police responded to Novak after Digwa claimed he had been the victim of a racial slur. The judge said that claim was false. Novak's father said his son deserved better. MARK NOWAK: Henry did not die with dignity. He did not die with the care he deserved. O'DONNELL: Nile(SIC) Farage, a far-right Member of Parliament, tapped into public anger and invoked race. NIGEL FARAGE: They didn't believe him. The last words on Earth this man heard were his rights read out to him all because of a false accusation of racism. O'DONNELL: But British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged calm. KEIR STARMER: When Henry's family is saying “please don't do that, it's our son”, then really, as politicians, as human beings, we should start where they start. And that's where I start. O'DONNELL: One officer involved has resigned. And authorities say the investigation into police conduct continues. Tom. LLAMAS: Okay. Kelly, we thank you. The report, although imperfect, hits most of the most important points. A young man is stabbed. Police arrive, stabber claims to be the victim of a racial slur, the police attempt to arrest the stabbing victim and question him when he claims to be unable to breathe due to his wounds. The victim dies, protests ensue.  In fairness, the report really underplays the racial angle, which is central to the horrific police response that proved fatal to Nowak. As the BBC reports, it is the stabber’s brother who calls 999 (the UK’s equivalent 911) to report a racial incident- not a stabbing.  The constables were there to arrest a man for allegedly making racist statements, and laughed away his pain as an attempt to evade arrest. This mockery was also underplayed by O'Donnell, who notably botched Nigel Farage's name while tagging him as "far right", which the Elitist Media do to anyone to the right of Lenin. This, in a country struggling with end-stage wokeism gone awry, an ongoing assault on free speech, and an out-of-control immigration crisis, is what has led to protests. These elements are central to understanding the gravity of the story. But at least NBC filed a report, which is more than can be said for ABC and CBS. ABC ran a story out of the United Kingdom- unfortunately, it was the knighting of Sir Idris Elba. CBS devoted that time to meteor sightings. We’ll see whether the rest of the Elitist Media continue to suppress a story that has triggered global shock waves.  

Insipid former New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman is batting a thousand with the level of maniacal things he’s spewed onto the internet within just a 24-hour window. Krugman released a YouTube video of himself May 31 ironically calling President Donald Trump “mentally ill” before monotonously calling for a “thorough purging of the United States” tantamount to a “de-MAGA-fication” of the populace. He must have had some kind of inkling that what he said was cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs, because he had to assure viewers that he’s “not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the ‘de-Nazification’ that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.” Hey Krugman, calling someone “mentally ill” while simultaneously calling for a “purge” of your fellow Americans you disagree with is some insane work. Worthy of note is that Denazification involved prosecuting “war criminals.” Is that what Krugman is saying should happen to his MAGA detractors? It seems like it.  But Krugman just kept running his perverted mouth: “It’s not just the MAGA ideology but the whole structure of hugely unequal power, hugely unequal wealth that made this horrific moment possible.” “Unequal wealth?” Krugman — for the love of Adam Smith — you’re a multimillionaire kvetching on YouTube while the average American is dealing with a salary hovering just over $66,500, according to SoFi. Go take a hike! Krugman’s anti-Trump screed-fest was published just a day before he plastered another deranged hot take on his Substack June 1 calling Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration “pogroms,” in effect cheapening the horrific events that constituted widespread massacres of the Jewish people prior to the Holocaust. Krugman took it a step further, likening ICE agents deporting people here illegally — including violent criminals — to the sexual depravity undergirding the twisted philosophy of French nobleman Marquis de Sade: “The Trump administration’s attack on immigrants isn’t about rule of law, crime or jobs. It’s racism and sadism all the way down.”   Krugman has made himself the poster child for Godwin’s Law in just one 24-hour cycle, which is a fear unto itself. The “law” posits that as “an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”  Here’s our tip for the Keynesian devotee with the perpetually dysfunctional crystal ball: Just because you can write and say words, doesn’t mean you always should. But who are we kidding? Trying to discourage Krugman from saying innately stupid stuff in public is like trying to keep a drunk uncle from grabbing the microphone at Thanksgiving— ain’t happening, and everyone’s gonna hear the same tired nonsense again.

How bad has Karen Bass's performance been as mayor of Los Angeles? Bad enough that even an MS NOW host and a successful Democrat strategist are acknowledging it. On Tuesday's Morning Joe, host Willie Geist noted that Bass has been "justifiably criticized" for her handling of the Palisades fire. He asked Jim Messina, Obama's 2012 campaign manager: "How worried should Karen Bass be?" Messina's response couldn't have been blunter: "Very worried." Referring to Bass's "mistakes," Messina said that people are "very angry."   Messina also had surprising praise for Spencer Pratt’s campaign tactics: "I know a lot of people watching this morning [in MS NOW's largely liberal audience] are a little freaked out about another reality star rising in American politics. But if you look at Spencer Pratt's social media, Willie, it's the best I've ever seen." Karen Bass Should Be 'Very Worried’ — Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina pic.twitter.com/6QmsfB8gM6 — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) June 2, 2026 Messina tried to preserve some liberal street cred, injecting, "I'm not saying he would be a good mayor, I'm not saying he's a great candidate," but then delivered this bad news for Democrats:  "He's really taken over this race with some really inventive AI outreach that I think all campaigns on both sides of the aisle can learn from." He concluded: "Pratt has really made his own luck, and he did it using social media and not a lot of money." Let's review: a MS NOW host acknowledges that [Gone-to-Ghana] Karen Bass has been "justifiably criticized" for her mishandling of the Palisades fire. Messina says that Bass should be "very worried," that Spencer Pratt's social media is "the best I've ever seen," and that Pratt has "taken over the race." Messina praises Pratt for having "made his own luck," doing so without a lot of money.  Yikes! Even on Morning Joe, the failures of blue-city governance are becoming impossible for the left to spin away. Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 6/2/26 6:26 am EDT Willie Geist: Jim, in the mayor's race, Mayor Karen Bass looking to be reelected, obviously has been justifiably criticized for handling of the Palisades fire last year, and chiefly by Spencer Pratt, who's a name people may know and a face they might recognize from reality TV. How serious a contender do you believe he is, and how worried should Karen Bass be? JIM MESSINA: Well, she should be very worried. No matter who's in the runoff right now. There are people very angry. She's acknowledged those mistakes. She's got to prove to people that this election is about the future, not the past. When I run campaigns, I say to people all the time, "These voters want to know where you're gonna take 'em, not where you've been." And she's having a lot of problems with that. I know a lot of people watching this morning are a little freaked out about another reality star rising in American politics. But if you look at Spencer Pratt's social media, Willie, it's the best I've ever seen.  I'm not saying he would be a good mayor, I'm not saying he's a great candidate, but he's really taken over this race with some really inventive AI outreach that I think all campaigns on both sides of the aisle can learn from. We'll find out tonight if it's enough to get him to the runoff.  . . .  And so, money is really important in some of these down-ballot races that Barnicle and I stay up until, you know, the wee hours of the night following, and especially in governors or mayors races.  When you look at tonight in L.A., Pratt has really made his own luck, and he did it using social media and not a lot of money, and it is proof that a little anger still drives American politics. GEIST: Jim, if Barnicle's telling you he stays up late to watch down-ballot races, he's lying to you. He's watching the A's Mariners in extra innings, that's why he's up late.