There is no liberal media bias in which news stories political journalists choose to cover.

ABSTRACT: Is the media biased against conservatives? Although a dominant majority of journalists identify as liberals/Democrats and many Americans and public officials frequently decry supposedly high and increasing levels of media bias, little compelling evidence exists as to (i) the ideological or partisan leanings of the many journalists who fail to answer surveys and/or identify as independents and (ii) whether journalists' political leanings bleed into the choice of which stories to cover that Americans ultimately consume. Using a unique combination of a large-scale survey of political journalists, data from journalists' Twitter networks, election returns, a large-scale correspondence experiment, and a conjoint survey experiment, we show definitively that the media exhibits no bias against cons

SUBMITTER: Hassell HJG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7112764 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature