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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Democrats see most news outlets as unbiased. Republicans think they’re almost all biased.." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 22 Jun. 2018. Web. 28 Nov. 2022.
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