Paula Kerger, chief executive of the taxpayer-subsidized Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), recently told the New York Times, “In terms of the news, we work really hard to try to bring multiple viewpoints forward.”
But as the second Trump administration begins and PBS comes under unprecedented existential pressure from the administration for its liberally biased evening news product, a review of coverage of the first four months of Trump II proves the PBS News Hour still occupies a liberal bubble, and it’s sealed tight as ever.
A new Media Research Center study tracked and labeled every guest that appeared on the News Hour over the first four months of Trump’s second term — January 20, 2025 (Inauguration Day) through May 19, 2025 — and found that liberal-Democratic leaning guests outnumbered conservative-Republican leaning guests by 173-41, a…
