More than three-fourths of Americans (77%) say that news organizations tend to favor one side when presenting the news on political and social issues, while only 22% say the media deals fairly with all sides, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Tuesday.

This finding is a slight decrease from the last time Pew asked the question in early 2020, during the final year of President Donald Trump’s first term, when 79% of respondents said the same thing. That was the highest percentage since Pew started asking the question almost 40 years ago. 

When the question was first asked in 1985, a substantially lower percentage answered that news organizations were biased at 53%.

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