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Should anything from the sources below be included in the article?

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/poll-media-threat-democracy

https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-media-bigger-threat-to-democracy-than-electoral-college-supreme-court-joe-biden-or-even-donald-trump

https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1582580843624550400 Yodabyte (talk) 00:33, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Yodabyte I think this should be included, as long as you can find reliable sources for this poll.~~~ Loltardo (talk) 22:27, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech companies and social media sites have been accused of censorship by some conservative groups, although there is little or no evidence to support these claims. The editorial board of the conservative Washington Examiner argued that Facebook and Twitter temporarily limiting the spread of the Hunter Biden laptop controversy on their platforms while fact-checkers reviewed it, even though parts of the story eventually turned out to be accurate, "proves Big Tech's bias".

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https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1197971952/biden-administration-fifth-circuit-ruling-social-media-injunction

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/09/08/biden-administration-coerced-facebook-court-rules/70800723007/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/politics/biden-administration-social-media-lawsuit/index.html

Loltardo (talk) 22:39, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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This seems to be a more precise title that encompasses political bias, conflict of interest, reliability, and other forms of media criticism in the U.S. Superb Owl (talk) 23:34, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

These US-specific examples did not have a natural place in the Media bias article, so I'm posting them here in case someone wants to include them in this article. They are somewhat old studies and may not be very useful.

Studies and debates

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TV

A 2007 joint study by the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that people see media bias in television news media such as CNN.^[1] Although both CNN and Fox were perceived in the study as not being centrist, CNN was perceived as being more liberal than Fox. Moreover, the study's findings concerning CNN's perceived bias are echoed in other studies.^[2]

Newspapers

Riccardo Puglisi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked at the editorial choices of the New York Times from 1946 to 1997, finding that issues salient to the out-of-power party received more coverage, with slightly more coverage of democratic issues during Republican presidencies than vice versa.^[3]

Steve Ansolabehere, Rebecca Lessem and Jim Snyder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006) analyzed the political orientation of endorsements by U.S. newspapers resulting in a slight democratic advantage in the 1990s.^[4]

A 2004 study by the conservative American Enterprise Institute study found less positive tones of headlines when an incumbent president was Republican.^[5]

A 1998 survey by the progressive nonprofit