Partisan Differences in Opinionated News Perceptions: A Test of the Hostile Media Effect
By Lauren A. Feldman. 2011
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The proliferation of opinion and overt partisanship in cable news raises questions about how audiences perceive this content. Of particular interest is whether audiences effectively perceive bias in opinionated news programs, and the extent to which there are partisan differences in these perceptions. Results from a series of three online experiments produce evidence for a relative hostile media phenomenon in the context of opinionated news. Although, overall, audiences perceive more story and host bias in opinionated news than in non-opinionated news, these perceptions—particularly perceptions of the host—vary as a function of partisan agreement with the news content. Specifically, issue partisans appear to have a “bias against bias,” whereby they perceive less bias in opinionated news with which they are predisposed to agree than non-partisans and especially partisans on the other side of the issue.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, background): “Importantly, audiences perceive these opinionated programs to be more biased and emotional than nonopinionated news, especially when they disagree with the content (Feldman, 2011).”
- A Three-Decade Retrospective on the Hostile Media Effect (2015, unknown): “Studies where participants read or view ego-involving content online are relatively rare (though see Feldman, 2011, and Hartmann & Tanis, 2013), and there is scarcely any research exploring how the Internet or the plethora of social media give rise to hostile media effects.”