The Media Research Center’s coverage of certain (right-wing-fgriendly) issues tends to be on the shoddy side because it deliberately excludes right-wing channels such as Fox News from that analysis. We saw this in a Jan. 20 post by Bill D’Agostino:
Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.
MRC analysts pored through every report about the situation in Minneapolis which aired on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News, from January 7 through January 17, 2026. We found a total of 121 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage devoted to the topic, of which a whopping 93 percent was negative toward federal immigration officials.
Note that D’Agostino clung to the MRC implication that Good deserved to die for supposedly being a “left-wing agitator ” — a bogus narrative. Also note that D’Agostino refused to evaluate right-wing Fox News, baselessly insisting that the broadcast networks are “left-wing.” Further, he failed to explain why such coverage is “negative” given the fact that ICE killed an innocent woman.
Instead, D’Agostino suggested that undocumented immigrants deserve whatever ICE dishes out to them: “Despite the melee in Minneapolis having resulted from a dispute over immigration enforcement, the crimes committed by the detained illegal aliens barely ever came up in the broadcast coverage. ABC spent a mere 12 seconds on the illegal aliens’ malfeasance, which amounted to just half a percent of their 2290 seconds of coverage.” He didn’t explain why that meant ICE needed to kill Renee Good.
Luis Cornelio did the same thing for online outlets in a Jan. 29 post:
A new Media Research Center study revealed that the Big Four News Apps relentlessly smeared President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement in what amounted to a coordinated campaign of hostile, one‑sided coverage that amplified attacks from leftist broadcast networks.
The new MRC analysis found that Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News flooded their platforms with a staggering 86% of negative and uncontextualized headlines about ICE operations in Minneapolis, Minn., following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal agent.
The study encompassed all stories with headlines about ICE’s presence in the state from Jan. 7 through Jan. 21. MRC’s findings pointed to a broader effort by the Big Four News Apps to shape public perception through selective article curation.”
As usual, Cornelio declared that the MRC “applied AllSides media bias ratings to classify each outlet’s ideological leaning” — a highly flawed method given that AllSides holds a similar right-wing bias to the MRC. He continued to whine:
Beyond narrative framing, MRC found that the Big Four News Apps routinely elevated headlines that relied on sensational and inflammatory language, blurring the distinction between straight reporting and political advocacy.
On the rare occasions that the Big Four News Apps-promoted headlines did not reflect partisan viewpoints, they often used alarmist or crisis-oriented rhetoric.
Cornelio didn’t explain how any of those supposedly “sensational and inflammatory” headlines were in any way inaccurate. Instead, he continued to whine that ” the Big Four News Apps overwhelmingly promoted left-leaning outlets in their coverage of ICE border enforcement operations in Minneapolis.”Cornelio went
Cornelio went on to grouse in a boldface subhead: “The Big Four News Apps’ Headlines Never Reported Good Struck Ross Before Fatal Shooting.” Perhaps because that didn’t actually happen. he then claimed that “ICE maintains that Good was shot in self-defense after she hit Ross with her vehicle.” even though, again, that has been disproven.
Cornelio further complained that “These stories focused on protests after the Minneapolis shootings, a second shooting of a Venezuelan illegal immigrant, the surge of federal agents in the state, reactions from Minnesota leaders and community fear and unrest.” In May, however, the ICE agent who shot that “Venezuelan illegal immigrant” was arrested on four counts of assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime.