some facts are nonverifiable. We use the model to address several questions, including the impact of competition on bias …, the incentives to report unpopular news, and the impact of owner ideology on bias. In general, competition does not lead …Two aspects of media bias are important empirically. First, bias is persistent: it does not seem to disappear even when …

access only to friendly media outlets and denying access to critical ones. While an incumbent prefers positive bias, granting … gatekeeping can induce a quid pro quo relationship: media provides coverage with positive bias in exchange of future access …

This paper models the competition of user networks as a continuous-time Markov process. It presents a dynamic version … competition can be characterized by the coexistence of lock-in regimes and a 'metastable' state - i.e. a state which is a …