FIRST ON FOX – Legacy media retailers supplied 10 instances extra protection of a Turkish scholar who was arrested for allegedly supporting terrorism than the seize of an alleged MS-13 gang chief, in accordance with a Media Analysis Heart (MRC) examine.
The FBI introduced on Thursday that U.S. authorities captured the MS-13 high chief for the U.S. East Coast, 24-year-old Salvadoran nationwide Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos. The information of the MS-13 boss being arrested got here someday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Tufts College graduate scholar Rumeysa Ozturk for allegedly supporting the Hamas terror group.
The conservative MRC tracked protection of the arrests from March 26-27 and located that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC spent considerably extra time on the Turkish scholar. The examine discovered that Ozturk’s arrest resulted in 119 minutes and 18 seconds of mixed airtime, whereas the gang chief’s seize solely resulted in 11 minutes and 42 seconds of protection.
TOP MS-13 LEADER ARRESTED IN VIRGINIA
The Media Analysis Heart tracked protection of the arrests from March 26-27. (Media Analysis Heart)
“The truth is, ABC, CBS, NBC didn’t commit a single second to the violent terrorist gang chief’s arrest,” MRC director of media evaluation Geoffrey Dickens wrote.
MSNBC spent almost 59 minutes on Ozturk and solely three minutes and 43 seconds on Villatoro Santos, in accordance with the examine, whereas CNN spent 50 minutes and 9 seconds on the Turkish scholar and solely eight minutes on the gang chief’s seize.
“So why the discrepancy? Whereas the arrest of MS-13 chief was an awesome PR win for Group Trump, the footage of Ozturk being arrested on the road prompted leftist anchors, reporters and pundits to decry what they referred to as the ‘authoritarian’ actions of the Trump administration,” Dickens wrote.
Ozturk’s detainment has obtained in depth media protection and accusations that the Trump administration is partaking in intimidation ways in opposition to anti-Israel voices.
A Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson informed Fox Information final week that Ozturk was “granted the privilege to be on this nation on a visa.”
“DHS and ICE investigations discovered Ozturk engaged in actions in help of Hamas, a international terrorist group that relishes the killing of Individuals,” the spokesperson stated. “A visa is a privilege not a proper. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Individuals is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. That is commonsense safety.”
ICE DETAINS TUFTS UNIVERSITY STUDENT AMID TRUMP ADMIN’S CAMPUS CRACKDOWN
Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral scholar at Tufts College, is detained by Division of Homeland Safety brokers on a road in Sommerville, Mass., on Tuesday, March 25. (AP)
Ozturk’s arrest yielded six minutes and 6 seconds on NBC, two minutes and 39 seconds on CBS and 1 minute and 39 seconds on ABC, whereas the printed networks utterly ignored Villatoro on night and morning newscasts, in accordance with the MRC.
A lot of the protection of Ozturk’s arrest described footage of the incident as “chilling” or centered on rallies to help the alleged terror sympathizer, in accordance with the examine.
In the meantime, Trump’s administration has deported a number of high members of MS-13 to El Salvador for incarceration, however anybody who depends on community newscasts can be at the hours of darkness about Villatoro.
“ABC, CBS, NBC aired zero seconds on the MS-13 chief being introduced in,” Dickens wrote.
AG BONDI DETAILS ARREST OF ALLEGED TOP MS-13 LEADER WHO REPORTEDLY JOINED THE VICIOUS GANG IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Alleged high chief of MS-13 was arrested in Virginia on Thursday, March 27, 2025. ((The Ingraham Angle))
ABC, CBS and NBC didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
NewsBusters govt editor Tim Graham doesn’t consider the discrepancy was an accident.
“A disparity like this demonstrates that the media want one narrative over the opposite. Trump having successful in arresting a gang chief is just too constructive to underline. They like the narrative that Trump is a few form of dictator arresting foreigners for talking too freely concerning the horror of Israel. They don’t even have the disgrace to note that Hamas isn’t precisely a free-speech paragon,” Graham informed Fox Information Digital.
Prime Democrats have referred to as for the discharge of Ozturk, writing a letter to Trump administration officers demanding solutions surrounding the “deeply troubling” incident.
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Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman, Audrey Conklin and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
