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WASHINGTON. — Nearly four in ten voters believe that the US media is biased towards Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US election, said a new poll.
According to the Morning Consult poll released on Friday, 38 percent of voters say that news coverage favours the former US secretary of state, while only 12 percent believe that the same is true for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
As to the amount of coverage each nominee is getting, the majority of voters approve of the amount of coverage of either nominee, said the poll.
However, voters voiced dissatisfaction with the fairness of the media, with 33 percent saying that the media’s fairness to each candidate is “poor”.
Another 22 percent voters believe the media coverage of each candidate is “only fair”, and those who describe the media coverage as either “excellent” or “good” account for 35 percent in total, according to the poll.
The poll came as Trump doubled down on his accusation against “the crooked media.”
“I’m not running against Crooked Hillary. I’m running against the crooked media,” said the New Yorker during a rally recently.
Though benefiting heavily from the media’s wall-to-wall coverage of his campaign during the nomination contests, relations between Trump and the media deteriorated in the past weeks as the bellicose billionaire developer got embroiled in one political firestorm after another.
The media bombardment began late July after Trump derisively answered criticism from Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim American solider killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. — Xinhua.
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