Moreno, Jonathan; Ouss, Aurélie; Bayer, Patrick J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States … from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is significantly more likely to use several language structures - e … homicides. We next use an online experiment to test whether these language differences matter. Participants are less likely to …