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Which comes closer to your opinion -- [ROTATED: that the news media generally favor one political party over the other, (or) that the news media generally favor neither political party]? And which political party do you think the news media generally favors -- [ROTATED: Republicans (or) Democrats]?
Combined responses based on national adults
2017 Jul 5-9 2017 Mar 9-29 ^ 2003 Feb 17-19 2000 Dec 2-4 1995 Apr 5-6 #
% % % % %
Favor one party 63 62 48 51 47
(Favor Republicans) (13) (14) (20) (15) (17)
(Favor Democrats) (43) (40) (23) (29) (25)
(Favor both) (5) (4) (3) (4) (2)
(Unspecified) (3) (4) (2) (3) (3)
Favor neither 29 27 46 41 48
No opinion 7 10 6 8 5
^ Asked of a half sample; # Items not rotated
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