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PDF"It’s official," Media Research Center reported yesterday, "Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News hate America, and MRC has the evidence."
As Americans rejoiced over the nation’s 250th anniversary, the Big Four News Apps delivered a starkly different message, filling their feeds with bizarre headlines that distorted America's semiquincentennial and turned it into an opportunity to smear President Donald Trump and advance partisan narratives.
Be informed, not misled.
The Media Research Center found that between July 4 and July 6, the Big Four News Apps promoted stories about America’s 250th anniversary. Rather than highlighting the patriotic significance of the semiquincentennial, the coverage overwhelmingly emphasized negativity, political conflict and criticism of Trump’s celebrations.
The ideological imbalance behind that coverage was also clear. Of the 52 Independence Day-related stories promoted across the platforms, the overwhelming majority came from left-leaning outlets, resulting in feeds that largely ignored the celebratory spirit surrounding America’s 250th birthday.
Here's what they found.
The Big Four News Apps largely veered clear of offering headlines with an unambiguously patriotic view of America’s 250th anniversary. Apple News offered 12 negative, non-patriotic or lackluster headlines; Google News promoted 11 negative or non-patriotic headlines; Microsoft’s MSN promoted 10 negative or non-patriotic headlines; and Yahoo News promoted 11 negative or non-patriotic headlines.
Rather than overwhelmingly commemorate America’s semiquincentennial, the Big Four News Apps did their utmost to reduce the historic celebration to partisan attacks, cultural grievances and relentless negativity.
The Big Four News Apps’ July 4 coverage overwhelmingly relied on left-leaning outlets, with 75% of promoted stories coming from left-leaning sources, compared to 19% from center outlets and just 6% from right-leaning outlets.
America’s 250th anniversary is no small feat. The United States is recognized worldwide as the oldest surviving constitutional republic, one equipped with the oldest continuous constitution. Countries have tried and failed to replicate the vision laid out by the Framers for centuries. Despite some historical shortcomings, America’s semiquincentennial should be a point of pride for everyone.
But users of the Big Four News Apps encountered a far different portrayal of the milestone.
The MRC found Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News promoted 52 stories about America’s 250th anniversary, with the overwhelming majority featuring headlines that either emphasized negativity or lacked patriotism rather than promoting the patriotic significance of the milestone.
Other headlines, they note, smeared Trump’s festivities as partisan, linked the celebration to slavery, highlighted political division, zeroed in on Trump’s approval ratings and downplayed crowd sizes.
Here are some examples:
- “Why the Constitution is making our politics worse,” by Apple News, promoted July 4.
- “Trump mixes patriotism with partisanship as he celebrates America's 'joyous' 250th anniversary,” by The Associated Press, promoted July 5.
- “DOGE self-deletes on July 4th. The grand experiment fell apart long before that,” by Politico, promoted July 5.
- “Trump launches US’s 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack,” by The Guardian, promoted July 4.
- “America’s 250th celebrations marked by severe weather, political division,” by The Washington Post, promoted July 5.
- “At Mount Rushmore, Trump Veers From Patriotism to ‘Communism,’” by The New York Times, promoted July 4.
- “The Great American Betrayal,” by The Hill, promoted July 5.
There are many more examples of the extreme bias — no, deception —in the general reporting of our July 4th celebration of 250 years.
The Hill has gone to the most disgusting effort to degrade our country, our 4th of July celebration, and our President.
They write, "America just hit the big 250. For millions, a milestone that should feel like a glorious victory lap instead feels like checking your account balance after a bad weekend in Vegas. The mood is far from patriotic. Fewer Americans are proud of their country than at any time in the last 25 years, and the reasons are obvious to anyone who has been paying attention."
Continuing, they say, "Historically, the country’s bureaucracy and legal systems functioned as the padded walls keeping collective delusions contained. Those days, however, appear to be long gone. Congress currently enjoys a public approval rating that hovers somewhere between head lice and used-car salesmen. Laws are no longer drafted to help citizens, but written by donors, for donors, wrapped in legalese so dense it functions like malicious software code, engineered explicitly to hide the backdoors and corporate exploits from public view."
And then there's this: "Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, once sold as the nation’s impartial referee, has shed any remaining pretense of neutrality. A majority of Americans now view it unfavorably, and the court itself has done much to earn that skepticism. It increasingly resembles an in-house corporate legal department, rewriting the rules to suit those already holding power."
And this: "When the secular temples crumbled, people used to turn to actual temples. But those are largely empty too. The pews are graying. And the local church is more likely to be turned into a trendy artisanal market or a fancy nightclub than to host a Sunday service. As traditional faith retreated, it took the old social safety nets with it — community ties, family networks, and basic neighborly goodwill. In their place, Americans got soaring rent, stagnant wages, and a profound existential loneliness."
This is their closing thought:
"Millions see no reason to celebrate the semiquincentennial. Dismissing this as unpatriotic misses the point. It’s simply the terminal fatigue of a broke and broken population, fed up with being told the patient is healthy while they stare directly at a flatlining heart monitor."
The Hill's article was titled "The Great American Betrayal"
But who is betraying whom?
Is Trump betraying the country, as The Hill is suggesting? Or is The Hill and their "news" brothers betraying the country with their lop-sided reporting?
Takeaway
There's a story of betrayal in the Bible that comes to mind.
Via Insurrection Barbie on X:
Jezebel was a Phoenician princess who married Ahab, king of Israel, and brought the worship of Baal with her.
She led God’s people into idolatry (1 Kings 16:31–33). She killed the Lord’s prophets and hunted Elijah (1 Kings 18–19). She used deception and abuse of power to destroy an innocent man, forging letters in the king’s name and arranging false witnesses to have Naboth executed for his vineyard (1 Kings 21). And she dominated a weak king who stood by and let her do it.
Does any of this sound like the news media's attacks on Trump?
Elijah prophesied that dogs would devour her (1 Kings 21:23). And in 2 Kings 9 it happens. She is thrown from a window, trampled, and eaten by dogs.
But her name makes it into the New Testament, when Jesus rebukes the church in Thyatira for tolerating “that woman Jezebel” who calls herself a prophetess and leads believers into immorality and idolatry (Revelation 2:20).
Why? Because the story of Jezebel is about a pattern. An era. False authority that infiltrates from within, seduces God’s people away from truth, silences genuine voices (the prophets), manufactures lies (the sealed letters, the false witnesses, the legal proceeding), and thrives wherever those who can stop her are passive.
What Jezebel represents is so important that we are warned about it by Christ in Revelation. And the warning isn’t aimed at the Jezebel or the deceiver. It’s aimed at those who tolerate the deceptions.
What Jezebel represents is so important that Christ warns us about it in Revelation. And the warning isn’t aimed at the Jezebel or the deceiver. It’s aimed at those who tolerate the deceptions.
We live in a time when influential voices build massive followings by mixing truth with fabrication, by destroying innocent people’s reputations with nothing more than vibes. They get rich from it. And audiences and institutions tolerate it because confrontation is costly.
By the time of Revelation, Jezebel had been dead for roughly 900 years. Jesus wasn’t confused about the timeline. He took a dead queen’s name and applied it to a living deception because Jezebel had become a recurring spirit. An era.
And the Jezebel era is easy to spot if you read Kings.
Truth is inverted. Baal was enthroned where [God] belonged. Isaiah 5:20 describes this: calling evil good and good evil, darkness light and light darkness.
The truth-tellers are attacked relentlessly. The prophets were killed or driven into caves, and even Elijah ends up under the broom tree wanting to die, convinced he is the only one left. A Jezebel era doesn’t just spread lies. It demoralizes the truth-tellers until they become silent.
Those in power are too passive. Ahab knew, and did nothing to stop her. The era isn’t sustained by the deceiver alone, but by everyone with authority who finds it easier to look away, or by anyone with the power to push back who doesn’t.
But God always keeps a remnant.
Seven thousand who did not bow the knee to Baal (1 Kings 19:18).
Are you bowing a knee? And if so...To whom?
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Bold. Be Unafraid. Be Prayerful.
