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Media Slant and Public Policy Views

Published:2024-05-01 Issue: Volume:114 Page:684-689
ISSN:2574-0768
Container-title:AEA Papers and Proceedings
language:en
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Author:

Djourelova Milena¹,Durante Ruben²,Motte Elliot³,Patacchini Eleonora⁴

Affiliation:

1. Cornell University and CESifo (email: )

2. National University of Singapore, BSE, CESifo, IZA, and CEPR (email: )

3. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (email: )

4. Cornell University, CEPR, EIEF, and IZA (email: ).

Abstract

We study how exposure to partisan news channels (i.e., Fox News vs. MSNBC) affects individual views on four policy issues — climate change, gun rights, abortion, and immigration. First, using GPT to annotate news transcripts, we document large differences in the way the two networks cover these issues. Second, exploiting exogenous variation in viewership due to channels' positions in cable lineups, we show that exposure to Fox News (MSNBC) is associated with more conservative (progressive) views, even when controlling for self-reported ideology and party affiliation. Our findings indicate that partisan media contribute to the rise of political polarization in the US.

Publisher

American Economic Association

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/pandp.20241005

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