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The Hill is widely described by media‑watchers and the outlet itself as centrist or nonpartisan, with multiple independent assessments rating it “least biased” or “neutral/balanced” while some tracker...
As of 2025 the U.S. media landscape is dominated by a handful of very large conglomerates — commonly identified as Comcast (NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramoun...
Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, has been at the center of multiple controversies since his death: viral footage of her interactions at Turning Point USA events has triggered accusations of staged e...
Yes — in the September 2025 controversy over Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, some local broadcasters preempted his show and a handful of advertisers an...
Recent empirical work does not support a single precise percentage for how many local news outlets are owned by clearly conservative- or liberal-leaning corporations, but the best recent estimates sho...
Nexstar’s NewsNation has grown from a struggling start to a for specific events, yet its parent company’s reach and past controversies fuel debate about bias and editorial priorities. Recent coverage ...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! remains strongest with younger adult viewers: Nielsen and industry reporting show the show “finished first among adults 18–49” in the second quarter and has historically been strong...
Federal law and agency practice allow ICE agents to operate in plainclothes and to cover their faces in some circumstances, but recent reporting and multiple state and federal policy pushes show inten...
The evidence in the provided source set shows as the largest and most prominent conservative-leaning owners or operators of local television stations in the United States as of late 2025, with Sinclai...
The materials provided do not contain a single, authoritative national percentage for how many U.S. local news stations are owned by *conservative-leaning* companies as of 2025; available pieces repea...
Comcast (through NBCUniversal) and The Walt Disney Company are consistently identified among the largest U.S. media conglomerates and therefore own the greatest number of national broadcast and cable ...
Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 loosened cross‑ownership and ownership‑cap rules, U.S. media ownership has moved sharply toward a handful of very large conglomerates: by some counts a small g...
Gerald R. Ford commissioned the current outdoor White House pool in 1975 to provide the athletic, twice-daily swimmer-president with exercise space; the pool was financed entirely by private donations...
Available reporting shows advertisers and sponsor groups drew scrutiny during the September 2025 controversy over ABC’s temporary pull of Jimmy Kimmel Live! after Kimmel’s monologue about the killing ...
Nexstar Media Group is majority-influenced by large institutional investors and its founder-executive leadership, and its ownership consolidation through acquisitions has materially expanded its natio...
A verified, joint news network fronted by Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Kimmel is not supported by the available reporting; fact-checking found the specific "Truth News" collaboration claim...
The Hill is a major digital political news player in 2025 with audience scale reported at about 42 million monthly visits (Wikipedia) and earlier claims of 34 million monthly unique visitors in 2024 (...
The federal government did not formally “ban” Jimmy Kimmel, but the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, publicly urged broadcasters to stop airing his ABC show after...
Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings trajectory over the past several years reflects a mix of structural industry shifts and show-specific incidents: all appear in the record as contributors to viewership volatilit...
Comcast (owner of MSNBC/NBC), Warner Bros. Discovery (owner of CNN), and NBCUniversal/NBCUniversal Media appear in public campaign-finance summaries as corporate entities or affiliates that made in th...