Study: Media Hiding the Facts on Ongoing Immigration Crisis
By Bill D'Agostino | May 21, 2019 8:30 AM EDT
According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, most Americans wildly underestimate the number of illegal aliens entering the United States each month, and one reason could be the news media's reluctance to disclose the real statistics.
An MRC study of every ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcast from January 1 through May 15 of this year found a total of 234 stories talked about illegal immigration, but less than one-tenth of those (22, or 9%), actually let viewers know that apprehensions at the U.S. border have surpassed 100,000 per month, an 11-year high.
The Harvard/Harris poll found 87 percent of respondents guessed that the number of border apprehensions was lower. A majority (52%) estimated the rate was less than 100,000 per year, which would make the problem only one-twelfth as serious as it actually is.
https://www.newsbusters.org/print/242292
