Persistent Media Bias

By David P. Baron. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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The effects of media slant on firm behavior (2018, unknown): “Theoretical models examine forces that give rise to this pervasive and salient characteristic of the media (Mullainathan and Shleifer, 2005; Baron, 2006; Besley and Prat, 2006; Gentzkow and Shapiro, 2010).”
Why Stakeholders Ignore Firm Misconduct (2014, unknown): “Overall, studies have uncovered a variety of persistent biases in media reporting about firm behavior and beyond (Baron, 2006).”
Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased? (2014, unknown): “Theoretical papers include: Baron (2006), Hamilton (2004), Leeson and Coyne (2005), and Mullainathan and Shleifer (2005).”
Organizations Behaving Badly: When Are Discreditable Actions Likely to Damage Organizational Reputation? (2010, background): “Since the media favors stories about large groups (Baron, 2006), there is likely to be more frequent and negative media coverage related to the organizations and actions that large numbers of people are familiar and involved with.”
Media Capture in a Democracy: The Role of Wealth Concentration (2005, background): “In Baron (2004), it is the preferences of journalists for in uence, or their career concern, that are at the root of media s in uence upon politics.”
All the News That’s Fit to Click: The Economics of Clickbait Media (2019, background): “This is precisely the mechanism for media bias proposed by Baron (2006): [J]ournalists may bias their stories if their career prospects can be advanced by being published on the front page.”
Stepmothers are mean and academics are pretentious: What do pretrained language models learn about you? (2021, unknown): “We take U.S. news sources from across the political spectrum as a case study, as media outlets are known to be biased (Baron, 2006).”
A Spatial Theory of News Consumption and Electoral Competition (2008, background): “where Tk is newspaper k’s territory as defined in (3).”
A Transformer-based Framework for Neutralizing and Reversing the Political Polarity of News Articles (2021, background): “Social scientists have demonstrated that news content has significant effects on shaping readers’ political attitudes [10, 37].”
Being The New York Times: the Political Behaviour of a Newspaper (2011, unknown): “Column [3] does the same for TriState stories, while column [4] refers to stories that do not have a link with either the TriState or NYC.”
The Role of the Media in the Internet IPO Bubble (2009, background): “Dyck and Zingales (2003), Mullainathan and Shleifer (2005), and Baron (2006) provide theoretical rationales for media bias.”
Persuasion of a Privately Informed Receiver (2017, unknown): “The theoretical literature has explored determinants of media slant of an outlet driven by its readers (Mullainathan and Shleifer 2005, Gentzkow and Shapiro 2006, and Chan and Suen 2008) and its owners (Baron 2006, and Besley and Prat 2006). 14This will be compared to Chan and Suen (2008) where each”
A Spatial Theory of Media Slant and Voter Choice (2011, background): “As well, Bagdikian (1992) reports numerous examples of editorial manipulation of newspapers and book publishers, including the firing of journalists and suppression of information, in response to economic and political incentives.”