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Political bias in media doesn't threaten democracy — other, less visible biases do

  • Written by Marjorie Hershey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
imagePeople see bias in the stories that favor the other party, but they tend not to see bias in stories favoring their own party. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Charges of media bias – that “the media” are trying to brainwash Americans by feeding the public only one side of every issue – have become as common as...

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