The biased PBS NewsHour is signing off for good. It couldn’t survive without government funding. There are reasons for that. It was not news but rather opinion masquerading as news.
News that can’t survive without checks from the government doesn’t deserve to survive.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) January 10, 2026
The NewsHour’s final episode appeared on Sunday, January 11. Check out the “tough” but “fair” journalism viewers will be missing:
“….demonstrators in hundreds of cities and towns took to the streets in a mass protest dubbed the ICE out for Good Weekend of Action. Some protesters say ICE is overstepping its legal power and jeopardizing public safety. For others, the threat to democracy is just as urgent.”
The PBS anchor said ICE agents are seen as a “threat to democracy,” and the anchor never asked her to back it up. He interviewed a radical woman who said protesters are only reacting to an “atrocity”. She was never questioned as she declared protests are merely aimed at protecting neighbors, while suggesting all the violence comes from ICE.
Watch:
They can continue their NewsHouse but not with government money. Unfortunately for them, their viewership and donors can’t support their existence.
Additionally, Republican lawmakers accused PBS NewsHour of left-wing bias and “woke” programming at hearings.
Indeed, the left-wing fact checkers like Media Bias Fact Check find them “slightly” left-biased. The fact checker must have missed the nonstop anti-Trump news. By the way, all fact checkers are left-wing which puts half the country at a disadvantage.
The Record Daily.com noted it airs partisan reporting without labeling it as such.
[It] unfairly favors far-left Democratic candidates while avoiding ideological labels that would identify their political positions. Critics argue that while the program appears to be balanced, it primarily features left-leaning perspectives. The candidates (McMorrow, Rakov, and Abughazaleh) used strong anti-Trump rhetoric, calling him “authoritarian” and “chaotic.”
MRC calls their programming “woke.” They found a 4.2-1 unfair balance of liberal to conservative guests.
Anything that needs government money needs to be looked at, I’d venture to bet that if it needs a hand out it is not sustainable on its own, and we should not be paying for it!
A long time ago, like maybe in the 80s and 90s the News Hour on PBS was leaning left but more moderately.
They had interesting reports, not totally fair and neutral but much more moderate than what it became in the last 10 or 15 years.
in the last few years they became radically far woke leftards.
It was no longer news, it was anti-right propaganda and a lot of lies to demonize the right.
They lied about what Trump said on Jan6.
And about 10 years ago , in their documentaries ( Nova, American Experience etc ) they began adding pro-black/ anti-white stuff that did not fit with the rest of the documentary…it was very bizarre…you would be watching something about I don t know who invented the microscope or Ancient Roman buildings or something like that, and then BAM ! for the next 5 minutes they would show you a village in Africa and what their people do that is soooo wonderful.
Nothing wrong with documentaries about villages in Africa but those should not be inserted into other documentaries, like you hide a pill in your dog’s food.
It was so strange that the first time I saw that, I thought I had inadvertantly pressed the remote and the tv had switched channel !
That was about when I canceled tv cable.
PBS shot themselves in the foot.
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