Why Does Everyone Hate The Media?

Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2018 10:30 am

FiveThirtyEight.com

Our question for today: Why do Americans hate/distrust the press so much?

I’m thinking we’ll break this down into three parts:

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Why Does Everyone Hate The Media?

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