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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Cowperson posted an interesting article a few months ago discussing media bias. In it it mentioned how people from the more extreme ends of the spectrum tend to see much more media bias than people people who are more centrist. Even within the same article, people on opposite ends of the political spectrum believed the article was biased the other way.
From the very far right, everything is biased to the left (and vice versa).
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Hostile Media Perception . . . . . the scientific study.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/965/hwang.pdf
Two groups of people of opposite points of view looking at identical news accounts but seeing different biases in the reporting.
Amusing as well that the right wing HOZ would post an op-ed piece from the New York Times to support his position . . . . . the Times infamously a few years came right out and said: "Of course we're a Liberal newspaper."
Cowperson