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

·2010·Econometrica
DOI 10.3982/ecta7195
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We construct a new index of media slant that measures the similarity of a news outlet's language to that of a congressional Republican or Democrat. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if newspapers independently maximized their own profits, and compare these profit-maximizing points with firms' actual choices. We find that readers have an economically significant preference for like-minded news. Firms respond strongly to consumer preferences, which account for roughly 20 percent of the variation in measured slant in our sample. By contrast, the identity of a newspaper's owner explains far less of the variation in slant. Copyright 2010 The Econometric Society.

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Venue
Econometrica
Publisher
The Econometric Society
Published
2010
Volume
78
Issue
1
Pages
35-71
ISSN
0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3982/ecta7195
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1,483
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2
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127.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
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