Think the media’s biased against you? You probably think misinformation is too

Think the media’s biased against you? You probably think misinformation is too

Ever feel like the news media is out to get you? That it skews its stories to make your side look bad? Okay — now what about the “fake news” media? All the misinformation out there online: Is it more unfair to your side of most arguments or the other one? Decades of communications research has found that, all else equal, people do tend to think that the news media is rooting against people like them. It’s a phenomenon known as the hostile media …