Media Slant: Slant Contagion and Polarization

8 Feb 2025

We distinguish observations by the county-level Republican vote share terciles in our research of media slant.

Are the Effects of Contagious Media Slant Driven by Supply or Demand?

8 Feb 2025

A relevant question is whether the effects of contagious slant are driven by supply or demand...

Researching Media Slant: Language Features and Topics

8 Feb 2025

These results are consistent with the interpretation that our main results are driven by FNC-specific bigrams that diffuse into local newspaper content.

Let's Take a Look at Fox News Channel's Viewership

8 Feb 2025

In our quest to study media slant, let's take a look at Fox News Channel's viewership.

Cable News' Effects on Newspaper Content: A Deeper Insight

8 Feb 2025

Taking a deeper look at Cable news's effect on newspaper content.

Media Slant Research: Newspaper-County Observations

8 Feb 2025

We replicate the baseline estimates but only consider newspaper-county observations where the county coincides with where the immediate owner of the newspaper

Media Slant: The Relationship Between the FNC Channel Position and Local Newspaper Content

8 Feb 2025

Figure C.4 visualizes the reduced form relationship between the FNC channel position and local newspaper content similarity to FNC.

Researching Media Slant: A Peek At Our OLS Results

7 Feb 2025

Table C.4 shows OLS results for regressions of predicted Fox News similarity newspaper Slant on TV viewership.

Checking for Placebos During Our Media Bias Research

7 Feb 2025

As a placebo check, we estimate our main specifications while calculating the similarity to cable news using local newspaper articles from 1995 and 1996