Media Research Center analysis: Top outlets promoted by Apple News and Google News have exclusively endorsed Democrats in every presidential election since 1988.
A Media Research Center review found that the five most-promoted newspapers and magazines on Apple News and Google News that issue presidential endorsements backed only Democratic candidates across the past 10 elections (1988–2024), accounting for all 31 such endorsements with none for Republicans. Microsoft’s MSN similarly elevates outlets that have overwhelmingly favored Democrats.
For Apple News, the top endorsing outlets are The Washington Post, The New York Times (via The Athletic), The Guardian, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. These issued 28 endorsements for Democrats and zero for Republicans; USA Today additionally opposed Trump without endorsing a Democrat.
MSN’s top five endorsing outlets backed Democrats 25 times versus just two Republican endorsements (both for George H.W. Bush in 1988 and 1992).
The MRC notes that these same outlets have consistently portrayed Republican candidates as failures, racists, bigots, misogynists, or unfit for office while describing Democrats as empathetic, impressive, intelligent, and highly qualified. Although Apple News and Google News present themselves as neutral aggregators, the outlets they most prominently feature—and those outlets’ unbroken record of Democratic endorsements—reveal a sustained partisan tilt that has shaped editorial messaging for decades.