Developing a Natural Language Understanding Model to Characterize Cable News Bias
Seth P. Benson,
Iain J. Cruickshank
Abstract:Media bias has been extensively studied by both social and computational sciences. However, current work still has a large reliance on human input and subjective assessment to label biases. This is especially true for cable news, which has a continued presence in American media but a lack of textbased bias identification in research. To address these issues, we develop an unsupervised machine learning method to characterize the bias of cable news programs without any human input. This method relies on the anal… Show more
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