Media Slant is Contagious

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15 février 2022

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  • 2202.07269
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arXiv - économie

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arXiv

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Cornell University

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Economics - General Economics Computer Science - Computation and Language Computer Science - Computers and Society

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Informatics Economic theory Political economy computing informatisation

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Philine Widmer et al., « Media Slant is Contagious », arXiv - économie

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This paper examines the diffusion of media slant, specifically how partisan content from national cable news affects local newspapers in the U.S., 2005-2008. We use a text-based measure of cable news slant trained on content from Fox News Channel (FNC), CNN, and MSNBC to analyze how local newspapers adopt FNC's slant over CNN/MSNBC's. Our findings show that local news becomes more similar to FNC content in response to an exogenous increase in local FNC viewership. This shift is not limited to borrowing from cable news, but rather, local newspapers' own content changes. Further, cable TV slant polarizes local news content.

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