An analysis of a news aggregator pre-loaded onto many smartphones proved yet again how tilted the scales of corporate media bias are against conservatives.
Myriad studies have shown the various approaches leftist talking heads and editors take to spin narratives, be it through massaged headlines, buried ledes, or outright silence on stories damaging to a cause. Now, with control of Congress — and subsequently President Donald Trump’s ability to continue his agenda — at stake, a review of Apple News found not a single story positive to Republicans was shared in the closing half of September.
Media Research Center President David Bozell told Fox News Digital, “Apple News ran 84 negative headlines on Republican priorities and zero positive ones. Zero! My dentist finds more good news in a root canal.”
“Millions of voters open that app before they vote, and Apple’s editors are in there like a bartender who waters down only one party’s drinks,” furthered Bozell, who took over MRC leadership after his father, Brent Bozell, was appointed U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. “Come on, Apple, tell us who picks these stories and why Republicans got the whole bad-news buffet.”
According to MRC’s analysis of Apple News’ top 20 stories from Sept. 15-30, five stories per day negatively characterized the top Republican policy priorities. Over the same period, 33 stories total had neutral headlines.
As MRC’s Luis Cornelio and Madison Van Zant explained, the data added to a “growing body of evidence that the platform’s editors continue to curate its feeds to push a left-wing political agenda.”
In a sampling of the framing of priorities, they wrote: “immigration was framed through court defeats and sensationalist stories; the economy through high gas prices; law and order through positive portrayals of police abolition; cuts to government through accusations of radicalism; foreign policy through portrayals of America’s adversaries as warriors; and efforts to curb waste through claims of unlawful cuts.”
Of course, 72% negative coverage to 28% neutral was anything but a fluke, as a look at the whole month of September showed a mere three of the top stories were sourced from right-leaning outlets compared to 383 from left-leaning outlets.
Less than 1% of Apple News’ Top Stories were right-leaning in September. Apple News’ leadership change didn’t change its rampant bias.
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 6, 2026
What’s more, Apple isn’t alone as MRC concluded that, when combined with the other top aggregators, Google News, Yahoo News and Microsoft’s MSN, nearly 60% of Americans are getting their news from outlets heavily favoring the left.
The same goes for broadcast network coverage where, from September 28 through October 28, nearly 57 minutes of campaign stories on ABC, CBS and NBC were negative for Republicans while less than 19 minutes were negative for Democrats.
Marking the negative coverage of Republicans as all the good news the Democrats needed, MRC noted that over the same period, the GOP had roughly seven minutes of positive coverage by the broadcast networks. “If this isn’t electioneering,” asked MRC, “what is?”
🚨BREAKING! ABC, NBC, & CBS have spent the last month dedicating their evening news shows to pushing negative stories about Republicans three times as much as they did for Democrats.
If this isn’t electioneering, what is? https://t.co/nm5uTW5jdZ
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) October 27, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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