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62. How Biased Is Your Media?

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How to Determine a Newspaper's Political Slant

Republicans had the tional majority in two thousand five, and it's the majority that uses this kind of procedure language more often. The most important factor driving the slant of a given newspaper is the political leanings of the people who buy it. They looked at how often a given newspaper used each of these signature phrases.

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