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The Price of Silence : Media Competition, Capture, and Electoral Accountability

Trombetta, Federico; Rossignoli, Domenico - 2021

Is competition in the mass media market an effective deterrent against media capture? Does it prevent political groups … from influencing reporting? This paper shows that in some cases it does not. Building on the literature on media capture …, the model highlights that, under fairly generic assumptions, high competition in the media market can drive the cost of …

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Mass Partisanship Predicts Coverage of Party Owned Issues

Uscinski, Joseph E. - 2014

A burgeoning line of inquiry suggests that news firms adjust the substantive content of news to follow their audience’s political preferences. However, scholars currently disagree over the ability of audience political preferences to influence substantive content in traditional news sources....

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Florida and the Film Industry : An Epic Tale of Talent, Landscape, and the Law

Parent, Mary; Govern, Kevin H. - 2014

Hollywood East! The honorific title bestowed upon a bewitching state known for her sandy beaches, warm winter days, and mosquito-filled Everglades. Florida and the Film Industry: A tale of an alluring titan and a powerful behemoth behaving like two lovers enmeshed in an affair, complete with...

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The Spin Doctor Meets the Rational Voter : Electoral Competition with Agenda-Setting Effects

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2004

In a multidimensional policy space, citizens cast their vote on the basis of which policy issue they reckon as being more salient. An issue becomes salient if it is known that problems related to it have occurred, which deserve some policy action by the elected politician. Newspapers and TV news...

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Statistical Bias in Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance

Ansolabehere, Stephen; Snowberg, Erik C.; Snyder, James M. - 2003

This paper examines evidence of statistical bias in newspaper reporting on campaign finance. We compile data on all dollar amounts for campaign expenditures, contributions, and receipts reported in the five largest circulation newspapers in the United States from 1996 to 2000. We then compare...

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Toward a Theory of the Press

Jensen, Michael C. - 2005

not be complete until we also have a theory that explains why we get the results we do out of the mass media. This paper … reference to all the mass media, including not only newspapers but news magazines, magazines, radio, and television). I argue … that the mass media is best understood as producers of entertainment, not information, and that the theories and facts that …

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Being the New York Times : The Political Behaviour of a Newspaper

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2008

I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controlling for presidential and congressional activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights,...

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Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers

Snyder, James M. Snyder, Jr.; Larcinese, Valentino; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and...

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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Shapiro, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet.s language is more similar to that of a …

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Welfare effects of public service broadcasting in a free-to-air TV market

Rothbauer, Julia; Sieg, Gernot - 2011

Viewer's private information consumption generates external benefits for society, because information improves the ability of voters to control politicians. Our study compares two settings in a free-to-air TV market: a differentiated duopoly of private channels and an oligopoly with both private...

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