Creating a Media Culture in America Where Truth and Liberty Flourish Border Invasion Censored as Leftist Media Cover for Biden Since Joe Biden took office as president in January, That decline in coverage started in April. As the the number of illegal immigrants swarming into this MRC noted at the time, there were 178,622 border country has dramatically increased every month. But apprehensions that month, an increase from 173,283 the left-wing media are trying to hide this fact. They in March. However, the network news coverage of the are not covering (or barely covering) the disaster at the border dropped 61% between March and April. The total Southwest border. They are also running interference coverage by the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, and for Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their NBC fell from nearly two hours in March to 44 minutes in administration with immigration stories that deflect from April. the real problem: an effectively open border policy. In addition, MRC analysis showed that Biden and The MRC has documented and exposed this non- his policies were completely shielded from blame in a coverage and deflection by majority of the 88 stories the leftist network news aired during those two outlets — ABC, CBS, and months. The leftist networks NBC — since January. The ignored the surge of illegal numbers are astounding. aliens at the border and The U.S. Customs and instead blamed Republicans Border Patrol keeps track or obscured the news as of all the illegal aliens that Biden “facing a challenge at are apprehended trying to the Southern border.” Even enter the United States. when Biden’s policy was cited In July of this year (latest as the reason for the crisis, data available), there were on occasion, the networks 212,672 apprehensions at turned it into a positive. As the Biden administration’s self-made disaster at the the U.S.-Mexico border. That U.S.-Mexico border has worsened, coverage by For instance, on the number is a 21-year high. the leftist press has fallen dramatically. March 17 CBS Evening It’s also up from 173,283 News, correspondent apprehensions in March, a 23% increase, and up Mireya Villarreal asked a nun “what makes this time so from 78,417 in January, the last month of the Trump different than previous years?” Sister Norma Pimental administration — a 171% increase! responded, “The fact that we have a president, an Since Biden became president, the number of illegal administration, that is very open to respond in a very immigrant encounters at the Southwest border has caring, compassionate and a very respectful way to nearly tripled. human life.” But while the reality along the border is worse than CBS is so deceitful in its border coverage it ignored ever, coverage of the crisis on the ABC, CBS, and NBC its own poll. At 100 days into the Biden administration, evening newscasts has slowed to a trickle. For instance, a CBS News poll of 2,500 adults showed that 57% in the entire month of July, the nightly news shows disapproved of the president’s handling of illegal presented a little over four minutes in coverage of the immigration. The CBS Evening News did not report border crisis. That was it. They essentially buried any that number but reported other aspects of the poll that news about the border. Continued on page 2 MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER • THE WATCHDOG VOLUME 28 • ISSUE 9 • SEPTEMBER 2021 Continued from page 1 border,” according to Fox’s Trace Gallagher. “Reports say many illegal immigrants who have tested positive showed Biden in a positive light. CBS censored its own for the virus are being released into areas where they findings! can interact with the public.” This reality has been On a related note, ABC essentially censored Vice publicly discussed by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and President Harris’s trip to visit the Southwest border Rand Paul (R-Ky.), among others. on June 25, more than 90 days after Biden tasked her But ABC, CBS, and NBC are not informing (or barely with handling the disaster. For instance, her trip was informing) Americans about this. And CNN is falsely announced on Wednesday, June 23. ABC’s World News claiming that Cruz, Paul, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Tonight on June 24 and ABC’s Good Morning America on (R) are perpetuating a “dangerous” stereotype that June 24 and 25 presented zero coverage of the trip. illegal aliens are spreading COVID. CNN’s Brianna Keilar It was not until the Friday evening of Harris’s trip asserted there is “zero evidence” to back up this that ABC’s World News Tonight offered a paltry 13 “bizarre claim,” and added, “it is the centuries-old seconds of coverage. Moreover, that blink-of-an-eye trope of demonizing foreign people as diseased.” report was buried 21 minutes into the show. When the facts don’t fit the leftist media’s narrative, For contrast, in August, Fox News broke an incredible they either censor the facts, or lie, or deflect to steer story using drone footage. It showed more than 1,000 people in the wrong direction. On the border disaster, apprehended illegals being held under the Anzalduas the leftist press is doing all three to protect the Biden Bridge near a popular Rio Grande crossing area. The administration; evening news coverage of the problem Border Patrol told Fox News that more than 8,000 has now virtually disappeared. migrants had been caught in the Rio Grande Valley Here at the MRC we are battling the media lies and alone over the weekend (July 31-Aug.1). The report holding the press accountable. This important work also said that “COVID-19 cases have surged 900% among wouldn’t be possible without your generous donations. migrants in the Rio Grande Valley in July.” So please, send another tax-deductible gift today using That story was completely ignored by ABC, CBS, and the enclosed reply form and postage-paid envelope. NBC. Thank you. Also, Fox News and other outlets have reported on Sincerely, how the Biden administration is busing thousands of illegal aliens, some of them infected with COVID, to small towns across the country. “There are increasing L. Brent Bozell III, concerns about COVID tonight along the southern Founder and President This Fall — Scare lefty friends with your bold support of the 1st Amendment! 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