This paper reviews the empirical evidence on commercial media bias (i.e., advertisers influence over media accuracy …; iii) A sufficiently high degree of competition in the market for news drives out commercial media bias …

quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in … which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias … emerges in our model even though it can make all market participants worse off. The model predicts that bias will be less …

quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in … which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias … emerges in our model even though it can make all market participants worse off. The model predicts that bias will be less …