Top 10 Worst News Show Anchors

News anchors are supposed to be the steady voices guiding you through the chaos of current events. They sit behind sleek desks, flash confident smiles, and toss around teleprompter lines like they wrote them in their sleep. But sometimes, instead of delivering the facts with poise and clarity, they bring bias, blunders, or just plain bad energy to the screen. It's one thing to have an opinion, but it's another to turn a news segment into a circus, a soapbox, or a constant cringe-fest.

This isn't only about political leanings. Sure, that plays a role in how some folks end up on the list, but it's more about how these personalities present the news. Are they constantly interrupting guests? Do they lean too far into sensationalism? Are they more concerned with hearing their own voice than informing the audience?

Scroll through the list, vote for the ones you think belong, and maybe discover you're not the only one who finds a certain anchor more frustrating than informative.

The Top Ten

Rachel Maddow

Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television host and liberal political commentator. She hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly television program on MSNBC. Maddow also serves as a special event co-anchor for the network.

She is a propagandist! She will only report on news stories that Fox News covers and she doesn't even report on the news that is happening. She spends her entire time mocking and slandering Fox News. She is always talking about how tolerant she is but is intolerant to anyone who does not have the same view as her.

I die and go to hell, and they tell me I have to stay in a room and watch TV for the rest of eternity. Not bad, I say. Then they tell me it's the Rachel Maddow show, and just like her show, it repeats the same story over and over. People who watch this are mindless.
Al Sharpton

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television and radio talk show host, and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. He is the founder of the National Action Network. Sharpton has been a prominent figure in civil rights advocacy since the... read more

Tax evasion is the least of his inequities. How about abusing the entire definition of what a reverend truly is? Someone with supposed higher standards and knowledge that the unsure and insecure would lean towards for guidance and better understanding.
Give me a break. The only time this guy makes the news is when a problem rears its ugly head, and there he stands baiting the frustrations of human tolerance, and all the while, sneaking his hand out for the proverbial donation. Never is he to be seen or heard of later, when the lights go dim, promoting any guidance towards calm and remedy.
I guess once the check clears, who should give a damn?
Cenk Uygur

He is a really petty fool that can't handle any sort of criticism or different opinions. All he ever does is scream his head off about people he doesn't like, and then talk about how they are Nazis. Truly a guy that has never fully grown up and should be nowhere near the news anchor position.

Cenk is so unhinged because he knows everything he spits out is nothing but blatant lies, and everyone with a high IQ knows it. He tries to get louder, knowing he has to try and scare people into conceding an argument he has no merit to discuss in the first place. His strong hatred towards Jewish people is pretty obvious.
Don Lemon

This man only holds his position at CNN, as far as I can tell, because of the color of his skin and the fact that he is gay. He's the less talented black version of Anderson Cooper. There is no depth to be found in this man, no intelligence outside the ability to read a teleprompter, and no drive to seek the facts or truths.
The man obviously has picked a side and holds a strong bias. He is incapable of taking constructive feedback or holding a constructive debate without talking over or "accidentally losing video feed" with any guest that he holds a difference of opinion with. If Webster or Wikipedia needs a visual aid to help define "fake news," my recommendation would be to add a picture of Don Lemon next to it.
Bill O'Reilly

William James O'Reilly Jr. is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and former television host. He gained national recognition for hosting The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, which aired from 1996 to 2017. O'Reilly has also written numerous best-selling books on politics, history, and... read more

Bill is a partisan lawyer who defends and applauds his own party while prosecuting and slandering his opposition. He is prejudiced and biased. If The Flat Earth Society became a prominent fixture in The Republican Party due to lobbying and financial contribution, Bill might find a way to legitimize the idea of a Flat Earth and would feel justified in so doing.

He is so annoying. He thinks he is so intellectual, smart, and perfect, but in reality, he is just another human being: NOT PERFECT. Is he forgetting that he smoked marijuana in college and that Howard Stern owned him?
Ed Schultz
Chris Matthews

I watched him interview HRC. He asked her a question, asked if he shouldn't have asked the question, then told her she didn't have to answer. Hell of an interview. Next time, just kiss her butt on camera.

An irrational left-wing kook. No one believes the vitriol he spews has a toehold in reality.

He constantly drops guests when they don't say whatever planned narrative he has made up.
Keith Olbermann

Lack of employing his common sense. He is intellectual but does a poor job of using it in sensible ways. All of his rhetoric was only to bash Fox News. He rarely gave unbiased and fairness a chance, which is what reporting should be about.

There is nothing good to say about this character, but I agree with his standing in this poll.

In the interest of fairness, he is just as biased as the news network he frequently bashes.
Piers Morgan

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan, known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television personality currently working as the U.S. editor-at-large for Mail Online. He previously served as a presenter on Good Morning Britain and hosted Piers Morgan Live on CNN. Morgan has also been a judge... read more

"How dare you! How dare you!" Those words will forever bounce around in my head from when he tried a Hail Mary against Ben Shapiro while discussing Sandy Hook.

Why does this ape have a job in America to comment on Americans and American values?

Please don't deport him. We don't want him back.
Lawrence O'Donnell

Whoever talks the loudest wins in the world of O'Donnell. To him, he's never lost an argument. To us, his viewers, he's an idiot.

So negative, you could turn the sound off and turn the radio on. This guy would still make you limp.

The Newcomers

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Jen Psaki

Psaki is incredibly one-sided. Her 'circle back' time as WH Press Corp mouthpiece for Biden was laughable. She thinks she's a journalist when all she is a talking ginger hear for the Left and Dems. And what's with her habit of wearing red or orange with that fake RED hair. Early pics of her (10 years ago) show she's not that ginger. Yikes.
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Van Jones

The Contenders

Chris Cuomo

He found out very quickly that when it comes down to ratings, there is no loyalty. CNN dumped him so fast that they did not even toss a party.

Pretentious and disingenuous are the first words that come to mind when watching Cuomo. They really could use someone better.

Attacks Republicans at every angle.
Anderson Cooper

Anderson Hays Cooper is an American journalist, television personality, and author. He is best known as the primary anchor of CNN's news program Anderson Cooper 360°. Cooper has won numerous journalism awards and is known for his coverage of major global events and humanitarian issues.

To listen, you know, to Anderson, you know, is, you know, one of the biggest, you know, wastes of time, you know, one can imagine. Make a count sometime of how many "you know"s he uses. It's the only thing that makes watching his program worthwhile.

Give me a break. This guy should work at McDonald's.

Another dishonest and biased non-journalist!
Joy Reid

I can only say that I wish the woman would just disappear. She is so full of herself, and in her mind, that is all she needs.

Can't believe she gets any airtime. She could be a pretty black woman but spends effort trying to be white.

She is just such a toxic human being that does nothing but push hate.
Sean Hannity

Sean Patrick Hannity is an American talk show host and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio program. Hannity also hosts the prime-time television show Hannity on Fox News. He has been a prominent figure in political media since... read more

Even as an independent conservative, this guy basically praises Trump wherever he goes. While I like Fox News and sometimes it provides real information, this guy is so right-wing it makes Dinesh D'Souza look like a liberal. My dad personally finds him to be an idiot, and now I think that.
Sean, you're a good man, but please bring in both left-wing and right-wing people instead of just having Sara Carter and other right-wing guests like Dick Cheney. Of course, I like when he talks to Newt Gingrich because he helped balance the budget with Bill Clinton and has actual facts. If you want a good radio host, listen to Rush Limbaugh instead of this guy. And if you want good right-wing news, read the Wall Street Journal.
Brian Stelter

The guy is just an idiot. Only on CNN can he survive, even though CNN is in a nosedive because of people like him.
Dan Rather

Not much dependable journalism here!

A blank statement about Rather sums up everything he stands for.
Ana Kasparian
Nancy Grace

Nancy Ann Grace is an American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor. She gained national recognition as the host of Nancy Grace on HLN from 2005 to 2016. Grace is also known for her outspoken style and coverage of high-profile legal cases.

The "Nancy Grace" show is not a news program, nor is it story-driven journalism. All Nancy Grace does is use and sensationalize the worst of the worst: child rapists, celebrity deaths and misfortunes, and family killer stories. She'll keep reporting and dragging us through the sickening details as long as people watch her show and make her money.
Every night she announces, "Breaking news!" or "Bombshell!" and then just repeats the same content she did the night before.
She acts upset about the "girl" or "mother of two" who was murdered or missing, but has no problem paying the obviously guilty main suspect $5,000 to $20,000 to come on her show. So what if they use that money for their defense or to skip the country!
Half the show is four "experts" talking over each other, and then there's the portion of the show where she lets every housewife call in and tell Nancy that her twin children are God's gift to us all.
She's incredibly rude to her guests and is a terrible actor. Each night she pulls out the "almost-sobbing, apathetic voice" when she announces the latest soldier to die in Iraq, but that voice bounces right back the instant she plugs her latest book!
She doesn't care about her guests, her employees, her viewing audience, or anything else that doesn't make her money.
Shepard Smith

For a hard news anchor (not to be confused with an analyst or commentator. There is a difference), Smith is the worst in history. News anchors are just supposed to read the news, most do it from a teleprompter. There is supposed to be no opinion, no bias, and no whining little side cracks and sarcastic comments. Somebody forgot to give Smith that memo.
This is an opinionated, whiny, sarcastic little twerp in a cheap suit and a lopsided haircut. Fox tries to "educate" us all the time by stating there are hard news people and commentators. What the hell is Smith supposed to be? He sure isn't fair and balanced.

For those who think Fox is all conservative, you haven't listened to this gem. He is as anti-Trump and liberal as you can get. I listened to him the other day call the president a liar in the middle of his "newscast" at least three times. What ever happened to "Fair and Balanced so you can decide?" I long for the days when the news was simply reported from a factual standpoint.
Remember "Headline News" when it actually reported the news? Most millennials never experienced that, or NPR when it was educational and politically neutral. Shepard is auditioning for Maddow's job every day.
Robin Roberts
David Pakman

Just another left-wing NPC. Smart guy, used for the wrong things.
Jim Acosta
Jake Tapper
Wolf Blitzer

The dirtbag of the year award. A bully who believes only in Wolf Blitzer.
Laura Ingraham

All she ever does is spread lies.