hostile media effect

is the tendency to perceive disagreeable media coverage as biased.

The hostile media effect, originally deemed the hostile media phenomenon and sometimes called hostile media perception, is a perceptual theory of mass communication that refers to the tendency for individuals with a strong preexisting attitude on an issue to perceive media coverage as biased against their side and in favor of their antagonist' point of view. Partisans from opposite sides of an issue will tend to find the same coverage to be biased against them. (wikipedia)

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hostile media effect