Media Research Center president David Bozell joined the Dr. Phil Podcast on Saturday to challenge the overwhelmingly negative and one‑sided coverage of immigration enforcement by the elitist media, including reporting on ICE operations and broader trends in how stories are framed.
"We have the largest archive in America... we just crossed over a million hours in televised archive footage."@DavidBozell breaks down the MRC's vast media archive with @DrPhil. pic.twitter.com/goH0w22MvT
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Bozell detailed how outlets have painted ICE operations as uniformly brutal, ignoring the full context of the cases they’re enforcing. In the Renee Good case, citing an MRC NewsBusters study, he noted: “Each network mentioned that the officer was hospitalized for internal bleeding only one time over the course of ten days.”
Bozell also highlighted the role of the “Big Four” digital news aggregators: Google News, Apple News, MSN, and Yahoo News in shaping public perception. He explained that even if right-leaning outlets exist to balance the narrative, most casual readers get their news through these platforms, which strongly prioritize left-leaning coverage.
10 days after Renee Good was shot, ABC, CBS, and NBC focused overwhelmingly on criticizing ICE instead of the broader enforcement context.@DavidBozell joins @DrPhil to challenge the elitist media's coverage of the MN protests. pic.twitter.com/iwyfaHafVX
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He illustrated this with a striking example: during a Jan. 18 service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, a group of anti‑ICE protesters stormed the sanctuary chanting slogans and disrupting worship after alleging that one of the church’s pastors was connected to ICE, and former CNN anchor Don Lemon was present and livestreamed the event as it unfolded, pressing congregants relentlessly and refusing to leave the premises.
“Google and MSN completely ignored it,” Bozell noted, later adding, “Apple was the only aggregator that even covered it. They covered it twice with the Washington Post story that blamed Trump for the interaction and a story from the BBC.”
Dr. Phil concluded by highlighting the imbalance in reporting and restating the MRC’s mission: “People can say ‘well you’re one-sided or not one-sided.’ The numbers are what they are. This isn't a matter of cherry picking. … You’re reporting it by the numbers and that’s what we want to hear.”
