What You Like and Hate About the Media Depends on Your Political Leanings

A new Pew survey breaks it down.

Last Friday, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi sent out a plea to readers, asking them to stop considering the media as monolith. “Fact is, there really is no such thing as ‘the media.’ It’s an invention, a tool, an all-purpose smear by people who can’t be bothered to make distinctions,” he wrote.

But even if you persist in treating all media as one and calling out this “invention,” as Farhi describes it, how you do so and why depends on your political leanings.

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