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hostile media bias  

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  • Definition During George W. Bush's first presidency, conservative writers Ann Coulter and Bernard Goldberg published books accusing the U.S. mainstream media of liberal bias. Liberal writer Al Franken replied with a book that denied liberal media bias and claimed that the same news outlets had right-wing economic and editorial leanings. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Hostile Media Bias]

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