Broad Reach or Biased Source? Decomposing the Hostile Media Effect

By Albert C. Gunther, J. Liebhart. 2006

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Influence of Hostile Media Perception on Willingness to Engage in Discursive Activities: An Examination of Mediating Role of Media Indignation (2008, background): “Such appraisal involves egocentric applications of some normative standards of factuality, neutrality, and truth telling (Gunther & Liebhart, 2006).”
Is the Media Biased Against Me? A Meta-Analysis of the Hostile Media Effect Research (2011, methodology): “These three explanations have been tested; however, the research has found convincing evidence only for the selective categorization (Gunther & Liebhart, 2006; Schmitt et al., 2004; Vallone et al., 1985).”
Partisan Differences in Opinionated News Perceptions: A Test of the Hostile Media Effect (2011, background): “In fact, the explanation for the hostile media effect that has received the most empirical support in the literature is the idea of selective categorization (Giner-Sorolla and Chaiken 1994; Schmitt et al. 2004; Gunther and Liebhart 2006 ).”
A Three-Decade Retrospective on the Hostile Media Effect (2015, unknown): “A number of experiments have offered consistent support for this notion (Gunther & Liebhart, 2006; Gunther et al., 2012; Gunther et al., 2009; Gunther & Schmitt, 2004; Schmitt, Gunther, & Liebhart, 2004).”