John Hardly, I watch McGlaughlin. I don't think that's an accurate comparison. He does not give each of his panel members an equal amount of time to answer the same questions. To me, that's critical for a show to be able to claim to be balanced.

I watch WWin Review, also. I don't know if that show could be considered balanced or not. The difference between that show and the News Hour is that with shows like McGlaughlin and WWin Review, there are panels made up of essentially the same people for each show. On McGlaughlin, you pretty much know what the political leanings of each panel member are. On WWin Review, I have no idea of what the panel members' political leanings are.

Where the News Hour differs from these two shows is that, although they have a few regulars who appear on most shows, each show usually has at least one panel that is made up of people who are on the show just to address one particular news story on that particular day. These panels are made up of an equal number of people on all sides of the debate, each panel member is asked the same questions (most of the time), and each panel member has the same amount of time to answer the questions.