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News crawler that exposes Big Tech pushing Big Media bias for Democrat propaganda? - C C - Dec 4, 2025
SEAN SPICER
https://youtu.be/ULMVtel4E0g
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I know you guys over at Newsbusters have got a real cool new tool coming out.
Yeah, the MRC news crawler -- as it's tentatively named right now. We're putting it through its paces.
One of the things people ask on the road: "Well, who reads the New York Times?" I don't know anyone who reads the New York Times anymore. I don't know anyone who watches NBC anymore.
The team and I were sitting around looking at our charts ... the top 50 news websites in America every single month.
And routinely the New York Times is number one at over 400 million hits a month. Okay, routinely CNN is number two at over 330 million hits a month. And so we're trying to figure out -- especially in the case of CNN, whose ratings have fallen through the toilet -- what's going on.
The New York Times I could see because they've got Wordle and Cross word puzzles and other things. But even if you cut that number in half, it's still a huge number.
We've got contributors and we've got our friends in the media saying, "Well, I don't know anybody who reads this stuff." But the numbers don't bear that out.
One of the things that we've been able to figure out with this MRC crawler is that big is augmenting big. So Google, Yahoo, Apple, and Microsoft are the four biggest news aggregators in the country right now. They're pumping traffic into the New York Times, pumping traffic into CNN, pumping traffic into USA Today.
I mean, Sean, I think you'd appreciate this. Newsweek was sold for a dollar 15 years ago. A dollar. And they're the number 16th rated news website in America today. At 68 million hits a month. Okay, it was sold for a dollar. How is it getting all this traffic?
Well, it's not the big conservative social media ecosystem that we've developed over the last 10 to 15 years. It is that these big aggregators that are keeping these guys alive, keeping them in business. And they're giving them a visibility that is not earned.
[...] So that's going to be the real cool thing about this crawler, is that it's going to provide the empirical evidence as to how many times Google shared the New York Times per month versus how many times it shared Breitbart versus how many times it shared the New York Post. The Washington Post versus Washington Times, Fox versus News Packs.
It's an innovative tool for editors all across the country to see where they stand with the four big news aggregators in the country.
Interesting. So, you're basically going to add some transparency to this. We'll now know where they're actually getting their hits.
[...] we're going to be able to quantify how many times the big four aggregators have been supporting liberal media, the liberal media enclave. Every single month to in real time. So that's what we're putting it through its paces right now. We're going to roll it out in 2026...
[...] If your stock browser is Yahoo, and Yahoo is chock-full of NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN... Then you're going to walk away thinking that everybody in the country hates Trump. I mean, because that's all they do. That's all they showcase are things that are anti-Trump or anti-conservative...
[...] this is the kind of content that Google and Apple and Yahoo are forcing down people's phones every day. So, it's absolutely imperative that we at the Media Research Center document and expose every word of this...
[...] their response to [...the National Guard attack...] was to talk about Trump, not to talk about the actual shooter. You know, I was watching PBS NewsHour on Friday night and they spent the entire pundit segment talking about Trump. I don't think they even said the shooter's name...
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The left is the establishment, though. So is it really that surprising, for instance, that the default setting on a web browser -- with respect to the news that it displays on a new tab page -- might seem pretty much oriented toward websites that promote that POV? Of course, it does feature a button or maybe something in Settings for personalizing your news feed, too. But does the average person bother to do that? And in some cases, even populists and conservatives might want to see who and what the putative Big Four (Google, MS, Apple, Yahoo) are specifically directing traffic to. So the curious would want it to remain in that original state.
https://youtu.be/ULMVtel4E0g
RE: News crawler that exposes Big Tech pushing Big Media bias for Democrat propaganda? - Syne - Dec 5, 2025
Yeah, I still use Yahoo on my phone, because I want to see what the leftist media is pushing. There's no sense hiding in your own bubble when you want to counteract another bubble.