The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary last year (and the show’s first year deprived of taxpayer funding) with a clip package of its coverage of various historical events, while declaring the program had traditionally strove to be “even-handed to a fault.” If that were ever true, the current version of the show, co-anchored by Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, certainly can’t make that claim.
A new Media Research Center study tracked and labeled every guest that appeared on the News Hour over the first six months of 2026 — January 1 through June 30 — and found that liberal-Democratic leaning guests outnumbered conservative-Republican leaning guests by 234–45, a ratio of 5.2 to 1 (186 guests were rated either neutral or nonpolitical).
That ratio surpasses findings from two previous MRC studies (3.7 to 1 in March 2023 and 4.2 to 1 in May 2025), meaning the bias has gone from bad to worse since PBS lost its government subsidy.
They continue to show why they were defunded with their ongoing biased reporting…
PBS has been worthless for a long time, except for This Old House which I think premiered in 1979.