Of course, people don’t really hate the media. They just hate the media that deliver news they don’t like or transmit views with which they don’t agree. A Pew study in 2012 noted that two-thirds of Americans think news organizations in general are “often inaccurate,” but that same number drops to less than a third when people are asked the same question about the news organization “you use most.”18 This, as many observers have pointed out over the years, is much the same way everyone claims to hate Congress, when what they really mean is that they hate all the members of Congress but their
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