Effects of Journalistic Adjudication on Factual Beliefs, News Evaluations, Information Seeking, and Epistemic Political Efficacy

Pingree, Raymond J.; Brossard, Dominique; McLeod, Douglas M.

doi:10.1080/15205436.2013.821491

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“…Two other factors were part of the experimental design but are outside the scope of this analysis. The first of these factors manipulated adjudication of factual disputes, given that adjudication in news has been found to influence perceptions of news quality (Pingree et al, ). This manipulation included three possible treatments: in favor of Republican claims, in favor of Democratic claims, and no adjudication.…”

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News Recommendations from Social Media Opinion Leaders: Effects on Media Trust and Information Seeking

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News Recommendations from Social Media Opinion Leaders: Effects on Media Trust and Information Seeking

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“…Many news organizations have at least partially abandoned norms of news objectivity, neutrality, and factuality in favor of an emphasis on partisan opinion, ideological expression, and overt conflict (Mutz & Reeves, 2005). Where once media could be criticized for failing to adjudicate the truth (Pingree, Brossard, & McLeod, 2014), many news outlets, especially those on the far right and left, now actively construct the "truth" to align with their partisan leanings. The media's power has become decentralized, with political blogs' content and audiences' search patterns helping to set the news agenda (Gruszczynski & Wagner, 2016;Lee & Tandoc, 2017).…”

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Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology

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A long tradition of research focuses on conversation as a key catalyst for community integration and a focal mediator of media influence on participation. Changes in media systems, political environments, and electoral campaigning demand that these influences, and the communication mediation model, be revised to account for the growing convergence of media and conversation, heightened partisan polarization, and deepening social contentiousness in media politics. We propose a revised communication mediation model that continues to emphasize the centrality of face‐to‐face and online talk in democratic life, while considering how mediational and self‐reflective processes that encourage civic engagement and campaign participation might also erode institutional legitimacy, foster distrust and partisan divergence, disrupting democratic functioning as a consequence of a new communication ecology.

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“…At the same time, however, media outlets suffer when they make mistakes, particularly among consumers with low levels of media trust (Karlsson et al 2016); this suggests that the public holds them to high standards, and may welcome journalists taking a more active role in fact-checking. Indeed, fact-checking as a whole tends to benefit media outlets: those that regularly engage in fact-checking are evaluated more favorably than those that do not (Pingree et al, 2014;Thorson, 2013).…”

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Correcting Political and Consumer Misperceptions: The Effectiveness and Effects of Rating Scale Versus Contextual Correction Formats

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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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While fact-checking has grown dramatically in the last decade, little is known about the effectiveness of different formats in correcting false beliefs or overcoming partisan resistance to new information. This paper addresses that gap by employing theories from communication and psychology to compare two prevailing approaches: An online experiment examined how the use of visual "truth scales" interacts with partisanship to shape the effectiveness of corrections. We find that truth scales make fact-checks more effective in some conditions. Contrary to theoretical predictions and the fears of some journalists, their use does not increase partisan backlash against the correction or the organization that produced it. Keywords:Fact-checking; journalism; political communication; media effects 3 Correcting Political and Consumer Misperceptions: The Effectiveness and Effects of Rating Scale versus Contextual Correction FormatsWhile misinformation -about policies, politics, and even consumer goods -has always been a part of the media landscape, the last decade has seen the emergence of dedicated factchecking organizations aimed at correcting these inaccuracies (Amazeen, 2012;Graves, 2016;Kessler, 2014). These fact-checking organizations vary in organizational structure, research methods, and story presentation; one of the biggest divides concerns the use of ratings systems to that person processes it, and ultimately how successful it is in correcting misinformation. This paper presents the results of an experimental study designed to assess how including a rating scale shapes the effectiveness of a correction and whether this effect varies depending on the type of misinformation (political vs. non-political) and the party affiliation of the reader. We also examine how the inclusion of a rating scale affects readers' attitudes toward public figures and the media. Overall, we find strong evidence that truth scales can be effective tools in countering misinformation and offer few drawbacks. In a non-political context, the addition of a truth scale increases the effectiveness of a correction. In a political context, while the truth scale does not 4 significantly increase the correction's effectiveness, it also does not have the "backfire effect" that theories of motivated reasoning might predict. Even when a correction runs counter to a person's partisanship, the inclusion of a truth scale does not increase the likelihood that the reader will reject the correction or negatively evaluate the outlet that published it.

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Effects of Journalistic Adjudication on Factual Beliefs, News Evaluations, Information Seeking, and Epistemic Political Efficacy

Cited by 49 publications

References 31 publications

News Recommendations from Social Media Opinion Leaders: Effects on Media Trust and Information Seeking

News Recommendations from Social Media Opinion Leaders: Effects on Media Trust and Information Seeking

Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology

Correcting Political and Consumer Misperceptions: The Effectiveness and Effects of Rating Scale Versus Contextual Correction Formats

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