کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
884007 912364 2011 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Ideological media bias
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Ideological media bias
چکیده انگلیسی

I develop a model of the market for news in which consumers and reporters both ideologically misinterpret information and have biased beliefs about the extent to which others misinterpret information. I show that for some parameter values, in equilibrium: (i) a monopolist media outlet hires a politically moderate reporter but duopolist outlets use relatively extreme, differentiated reporters; (ii) in duopoly, consumers think of their preferred outlet's news reporter as relatively unbiased and the other outlet's reporter as relatively biased; (iii) consumers, in the aggregate, may be less informed in duopoly than monopoly, despite more consumers receiving news in duopoly.

Research highlights
► I model the news market assuming consumers and reporters have ideological biases.
► All agents also have biased beliefs about the ideological biases.
► In the model, consumers desire unbiased news but disagree on media bias.
► The model implies increasing competition may reduce consumers information.
► This occurs despite increasing competition causing more consumers to receive news.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization - Volume 78, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 256–271
نویسندگان
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