What Drives Media Slant? Evidence From U.S. Daily Newspapers

We construct a new index of media slant that measures the similarity of a news outlet's language to that of a congressional Republican or Democrat. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if newspapers independently max...

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Published in:Econometrica 2010-01, Vol.78 (1), p.35-71
Main Authors: Gentzkow, Matthew, Shapiro, Jesse M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
2000-2005
Applications
Bias
Communication research
Consumer economics
Consumer preferences
Demand
Demography
Economic models
Estate taxes
Exact sciences and technology
Ideologie
Insurance, economics, finance
Journalism
Mass media
Mathematics
media ownership
Media studies
Medienrecht
Meinungsfreiheit
News content
News media
Ownership and control
Political parties
Preferences
Press
Probability and statistics
Profit maximization
Profits
Sciences and techniques of general use
Sprache
Statistics
Studies
text categorization
U.S.A
USA
Voting
Zeitung
ZIP codes
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