About this episode

The episode discusses the liberal-conservative disparity in PBS News Hour guests and the potential impact of defunding on its political bias.

The latest NewsBusters study of the guests interviewed on the “PBS News Hour” now shows the liberal-conservative disparity to be 5.2 to 1. Removing their government funding might have encouraged a deeper leftist tilt. But at least conservatives aren’t forced to support it.

Topics covered

• PBS
• political bias
• media funding
• conservatism
• liberalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PBS, PBS News Hour

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