Hostile media effect

The hostile media effect is the tendency for individuals with strong opinions on opposite sides of a controversial issue to both perceive identical news coverage as unfairly biased against their own position. The phenomenon was proposed and experimentally studied in 1985 by Robert Vallone, Lee Ross and Mark Lepper.

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