News decisions: Journalists as partisan actors

Patterson, Thomas E.; Donsbagh, Wolfgang

doi:10.1080/10584609.1996.9963131

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“…43 Let's now analyze the no-deviation condition for C <C. Consider (30) and (31) and let C Duop = C Duop (x e 1 ) be the highest opportunity cost such that for x e 1 ∈ 1 2 , 1 the following condition holds (i.e., C Duop being the opportunity cost associated with the most profitable deviation from x e 1 = 1/2): 44 F (max {x e 1 ; x I (x e 1 )}) − 1 2 F (x e 1 ) − F (x e | xe= 1…”

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“…First, by surveying journalists in five different countries (i.e., USA, UK, Germany, Italy and Sweden), Patterson and Wolfgang (1996) show the presence of a significative positive correlation between a journalist's ideological preferences and their news decisions. Moreover, the model predictions regarding the higher accuracy of news by moderate editors, are in line the observed patterns of perceived accuracy and bias in news report in the US.…”

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“…Thus, a necessary 43 Notice also that x I (n * e1 , n * e1 ,n * e2 ) <x e | xe= 1 2 if and only if C <Č ≡ 2δ 1−λn * e 1 λn * e 2 +1…”

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Citizen-editors' endogenous information acquisition and news accuracy

Sobbrio¹

2014

Journal of Public Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract This paper provides a model of the market for news where profit-maximizing media outlets choose their editors from a population of rational citizens. The analysis identifies a novel mechanism of media bias: the bias in a media outlet's news reports is the result of the slanted endogenous information acquisition strategy of its editor. In particular, the results show that the expected accuracy of news reports is lower the more ideological an editor is. Nevertheless, citizens find it optimal to acquire information from a media outlet whose editor has similar ideological preferences. Depending on the distribution of citizens' ideological preferences, a media outlet may choose an ideological editor even in a monopolistic market. Moreover, ideological editors are more likely to be present in the market for news: i) the higher the number of media outlets competing in the market for news; ii) the lower the opportunity cost that citizens have to incur to acquire information. Terms of use: Documents inJEL Classification: D81, D83, L82

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Citizen-editors' endogenous information acquisition and news accuracy

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2014

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“…Es precisamente esta forma de ver el mundo lo que determina cuáles temas serán difundidos y cuáles ignorados. Pero no solamente dicta los temas de interés, también el enfoque o la forma de abordarlos (Patterson & Donsbach, 1996;Benson, 1999;Hallin y Mancini, 2004;McNair, 2007;Çarkoğlu y Yavuz, 2011).…”

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Actores políticos y sociales de los telediarios: Una tarea pendiente de las televisoras mexicanas

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Macías²,

Villanueva³

2015

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Abstracts [ES] Introducción:A pesar de que la televisión abierta es el principal medio de comunicación en México, su oferta informativa en el ámbito político es limitada; puesto que sus noticieros tienden a destacar la versión oficial por encima de otras fuentes de información. Metodología: Para demostrar lo anterior, se recurrió a un análisis de contenido en el que se midió cuáles son los personajes de la política nacional que destacan dichos programas, qué tan diversos son y con qué frecuencia son presentados. Además del tratamiento estadístico común en esta técnica, los resultados fueron sometidos al Índice Gini, que mide el grado de desigualdad en la distribución -en este caso -del tiempo otorgado a cada actor político. Resultados: Los resultados que se discutirán a lo largo de este texto indican que los personajes mayormente representados pertenecen al Gobierno Federal y, en menor medida, al Poder Legislativo y al Gobierno Estatal. Asimismo, y dado que es el partido gobernante, el Partido Revolucionario Institucional es el que mayor presencia tiene en comparación con los otros institutos políticos. Por tanto, no resulta inesperado que los principales temas abordados en las noticias hayan sido la economía, seguridad y política; puesto que son justamente los temas incluidos en la agenda de los actores políticos. Conclusiones: Esta Revista Latina de Comunicación Social # 070 -Páginas 750 a 764Investigación |

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“…However, empirical evidence confirms that the media gives us a picture of the public debate on ideas that plays an important role in shaping our social perceptions, thereby having an impact on individual ideas (Golding 1977, Thompson 1995, Patterson & Donsbagh 1996, Norris 1997,…”

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Mapping press ideology. A methodological proposal to systematise the analysis of political ideologies in newspapers

Schena

Almirón

Pineda

2018

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Ideology and political ideologies in general have been addressed both from theoretical and applied perspectives by media and communication scholars in an attempt to reveal whether pluralism is present or absent in the media. However, the complexity of such a task has proven to be high as well as very problematic. The efforts to systematise the study of ideology in the media in order to make it objective and systematic have been scarce. This paper tries to contribute to such systematising by providing a method to analyse political ideologies in the media that aims to be objective and replicable in the political context of Western democracies. Our work was inspired by previous studies that were mostly conducted in the field of political sciences and political communication. The main goal of this paper is to reach a deeper comprehension of ideology, in general, and political ideology in particular, and to conceptualise a method that aims to be instrumental in the analysis of the media from the viewpoint of political ideologies but without being restricted by traditional labels that may reproduce cultural biases. The theoretical-analytical method here suggested addresses ideologies in newspapers to identify worldviews according to four general values: individualism, communitarianism, egalitarianism and elitism.

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News decisions: Journalists as partisan actors

Cited by 305 publications

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Citizen-editors' endogenous information acquisition and news accuracy

Citizen-editors' endogenous information acquisition and news accuracy

Actores políticos y sociales de los telediarios: Una tarea pendiente de las televisoras mexicanas

Mapping press ideology. A methodological proposal to systematise the analysis of political ideologies in newspapers

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