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hostile media effect  

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  • For journalists reporting on controversial political issues, it is all too common to get critical feedback from readers or viewers who accuse them of bias. They find some comfort, however, when audience members from both sides of a political fence charge that news coverage is slanted in favor of the other side. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Hostile Media Effect]

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