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- Garz, Marcel, et al.
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Is There Within-outlet Demand for Media Slant? Evidence from US Presidential Campaign News
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Variation in political slant across media outlets, and demand for such slant, has been studied extensively. We conduct a novel within-outlet (and within-topic) analysis of the demand for "congenially" slanted news. We study so-called horse race news from six major online outlets for the 2012 and 2016 US presidential campaigns. We find very limited evidence of higher demand for more congenial stories, and somewhat stronger evidence of higher demand for more uncongenial stories. However, we also find that, as expected, news is slanted congenially across outlets, counter-acting (and perhaps causing) any within-outlet preference for uncongenial slant. We discuss how our results are consistent with the three major mechanisms driving demand for slant studied in the theoretical literature, and enhance understanding of when each mechanism is more likely to come into play.
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- Garz, Marcel, et al.
(författare)
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What Drives Demand for Media Slant?
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We conduct within-outlet, within-topic analysis of the relationship between partisan congeniality of news and news demand. We study “horse race” news on the 2012 and 2016US presidential campaigns from six major online outlets, and data from incentivized surveys on news on the winners of presidential campaign debates. We find some evidenceof higher demand for more congenial stories (within-outlet-topic), and some evidence ofhigher demand for more uncongenial stories. We argue the former evidence is most consistent with psychological theories of demand for slant, and the latter is most consistentwith the trust theory. We also obtain evidence of systematically congenial outlet-levelhorse race slant, arguably consistent with both the psychology and trust theories, butinconsistent with the instrumental value theory.
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