Ideological media bias

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Year: 2011
Volume: 78
Issue: 3
Pages: 256-271

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

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.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jeborg:v:78:y:2011:i:3:p:256-271
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-29