STUDY: Be My (Leftist) Guest: PBS's Liberal-Conservative Disparity Tops 5-1

Kaitlan Collins once told an interviewer she welcomed guests from both liberal and conservative views. We have to discover for ourselves how each side was treated in her interviews and what sort of rebuttal guests were on the show with them. TD

 STUDY: Be My (Leftist) Guest Once Again:

. . . "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. 

KEY FINDINGS:

■ Liberal-Democratic guests outnumbered conservative-Republican guests by 234-45, a ratio of 5.2 to 1.

■ Of 22 appearances by Republican officials and appointees, seven were coded as anti-Trump. Of 31 appearances by Democrats, only one was coded as pro-Trump.

■ When elected officials and appointees were removed from the guest count, the ideological disparity becomes even more striking, with liberal-leaning guests outnumbering conservative-leaning guests 203-23, a ratio of 8.8 to 1.

■ Liberal-leaning journalists made 40 appearances as guests, compared to 0 appearances by conservative-leaning journalists.

"On a few occasions, liberal guests appeared, but their statements were fairly neutral information and analysis, so they were not included in the tally, including pro-abortion academic Mary Ziegler and China expert Orville Schell." . . . 

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 . . ."Giggle when they call themselves the “mainstream media.”   At CBS, arrogant leftists like 60 Minutes activists Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi throwing fits of insubordination and getting fired was meant to imply there’s been a massive sea change in what people see when they tune in on Sunday nights. Once again, viewers haven’t seen a massive change in their stories. But leftists cannot abide anyone even questioning their aggressive partisanship to steer America toward that “right side of history.'”