A Measure of Media Bias

By T. Groseclose, Jeffrey Milyo. 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Political Ideology Detection Using Recursive Neural Networks (2014, background): “While objectivity remains an important principle of journalistic professionalism, scholars and watchdog groups claim that the media are biased (Groseclose and Milyo, 2005; Gentzkow and Shapiro, 2010; Niven, 2003), backing up their assertions by publishing examples of obviously biased articles on the”
Economic and Social Impacts of the Media (2015, neutral): “…example, measures of ideological bias in newspaper coverage have been proposed comparing the terminology used in the articles to that used by congressmen (e.g., Groseclose and Milyo, 2005) but no similar strategy has been developed for themes related to education, health, etc. 4 DellaVigna (2009).”
The effects of media slant on firm behavior (2018, positive): “Groseclose and Milyo (2005) compute an index of political orientation of news programs and”
A Transformer-based Framework for Neutralizing and Reversing the Political Polarity of News Articles (2021, background): “For instance, many researchers use national outlets the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to respectively represent liberal- and conservative-leaning newspapers [44].”
Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets (2013, positive): “…active electorate increases the incentives for a government to be responsive (Besley and Burgess 2001; Strömberg 24 Mass media can also affect policy making by creating a bias in the provision of information (Baron 2006; Gentzkow and Shapiro 2006; Groseclose and Milyo 2005; Sutter 2001).”
When does the stock market listen to economic news? New evidence from copulas and news wires (2014, neutral): “They also contain few journalist’s opinions, which substantially reduces political bias of economic coverage that has been found to exist in newspaper stories (e.g. see Mullainathan and Shleifer (2005), Groseclose and Milyo (2005), Dyck and Zingales (2003) and Lott and Hassett (2004)).”
Fair and Balanced? Quantifying Media Bias through Crowdsourced Content Analysis (2016, background): “news outlets differ ideologically (Patterson, 1993; Sutter, 2001), and can be reliably ordered on a liberal-to-conservative spectrum (Groseclose and Milyo, 2005; Gentzkow and Shapiro, 2010).”
Text as Data (2017, methodology): “Groseclose and Milyo (2005) offer a pio-neering application of text analysis methods to this problem.”
Media and Politics (2015, background): “Groseclose and Milyo (2005) proxy the political positions of U.S. media outlets by the average ideology of the think tanks they quote.”
More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks (2011, background): “Apart from these qualitative arguments, Groseclose and Milyo [2] proposed a media bias measure that counts how often a particular media outlet cites various think tanks and policy groups.”
Populism in Place: The Economic Geography of the Globalization Backlash (2019, neutral): “…until 2016, populism had been growing for decades, as witnessed by the popularity of far-right media personalities like Rush Limbaugh and his imitators, Newt Gingrich’s populist crusade against the institution of Congress, and the success of the Fox News cable channel (Groseclose and Milyo 2005).”