Does media bias affect voting? We address this question by looking at the entry of Fox News in cable markets and its … bias and about politician quality. The Fox News effect could be a temporary learning effect for rational voters, or a …

Does media bias affect voting? We address this question by looking at the entry of Fox News in cable markets and its … bias and about politician quality. The Fox News effect could be a temporary learning effect for rational voters, or a …

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 investigates the relationship between media manipulation, the strategic suppression of relevant information … voter's ideal policy occurs if and only if the media bias is sufficiently small. We then characterize the set of equilibria … in terms of the degree of distortion. The results suggest that if either strategic media manipulation or competition …