According to the poll, 16% of Americans believe the national media favored one of the candidates, while local outlets remained objective. On the contrary, 5% said only local media were biased, while the national media were not. Only 20% respondents believed that the US media provided balanced coverage of the candidates.
The survey was conducted on November 3-7 2016 by the TNS UK research company in the US for Sputnik news agency and radio. As many as 1012 respondents aged 18 to 64 were asked the following question, “Regarding the presidential campaign in the United States, do you think that the media were biased towards one of the candidates?”. The margin of error for the nationwide data is +/- 3.1% with a confidence level of 95%.
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