Brad Wilmouth
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
On Christmas Eve morning, whether illegal immigration has gotten substantially better or substantially worse in the last year depended on whether you were watching CBS or Fox News.
After Fox & Fiends hosted a segment to discuss the recent surges in illegal border crossings in the last few months, about an hour later, CBS This Morning ran a brief…
CBS This Morning
December 24, 2020
7:47 a.m. Eastern
VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: A new report from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reveals the impact the pandemic has had on border arrests and deportations. The agency deported more than 185,000 people in 2020. That is down 30 percent from the previous year and the lowest number in more than a decade. ICE arrested nearly 104,000 this year --…
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
Now that the election is over and informing Americans about the case for building a border wall can no longer benefit Republicans, CNN's New Day aired a report on Thursday that was unusually balanced for CNN in which highlighted an area where a border wall is desperately needed to stop drug smugglers.
Correspondent Ed Lavandera spoke with a rancher and…
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Mark Phillips devoted a full report to fretting that all the e-mailing and computer usage, as well as other ways people consume energy at home, is actually counterracting the environmental "silver lining" that liberals have tried to take comfort in during the pandemic as fewer people drive to work.
Fill-in…
CNN
The Situation Room
December 21, 2020
6:30 p.m. Eastern
WOLF BLITZER: Tonight, the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, is raising some very serious red flags, taking new action as a new COVID-19 variant is spreading potentially very dangerously in the United Kingdom. We're joined now by Governor Cuomo. He's also the author of the new book, American Crisis, Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19…
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
On Monday afternoon, as New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo made appearances on both MSNBC and CNN to promote his call for restrictions on air travel to and from the United Kingdom, neither network did much to push back against his claims, or to press him on any other of his personal scandals. They also did little to correct misinformation or to…
"We followed the science. We were a slave to the science."