The American Journalist in the Digital Age

Willnat, Lars; Weaver, David H.; Wilhoit, G. Cleveland

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2017.1387071

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“…The survey of journalists allows us to see whether journalists, indeed, skew in the liberal direction. Previous studies have tended to show that this is the case (14,23). To replicate and extend previous surveys, we collected our list of journalists using the U.S.…”

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There is no liberal media bias in which news stories political journalists choose to cover

2020

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Is the media biased against conservatives? Although a dominant majority of journalists identify as liberals/Democrats and many Americans and public officials frequently decry supposedly high and increasing levels of media bias, little compelling evidence exists as to (i) the ideological or partisan leanings of the many journalists who fail to answer surveys and/or identify as independents and (ii) whether journalists’ political leanings bleed into the choice of which stories to cover that Americans ultimately consume. Using a unique combination of a large-scale survey of political journalists, data from journalists’ Twitter networks, election returns, a large-scale correspondence experiment, and a conjoint survey experiment, we show definitively that the media exhibits no bias against conservatives (or liberals for that matter) in what news that they choose to cover. This shows that journalists’ individual ideological leanings have unexpectedly little effect on the vitally important, but, up to this point, unexplored, early stage of political news generation.

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2020

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“…Finally, the populist mobilizer is concerned in assembling the public to develop their views, interests, or political agenda (Cassidy, 2005). It focuses on four subcomponents: (1) develop intellectual and cultural interests, (2) encourage people to form opinions, (3) motivate people to get involved, (4) and point to possible solutions (Willnat et al, 2017).…”

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Fighting for truth? The role perceptions of Filipino journalists in an era of mis- and disinformation

Balod¹,

Hameleers²

2019

Journalism

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This study examines how journalists in the Philippines perceive their roles in response to mis- and disinformation. In the country’s current media landscape, journalists find themselves in the spotlight as the media are frequently accused of spreading falsehoods. Drawing from data gathered through 16 semistructured in-depth interviews with Filipino journalists, the findings first of all indicate that the disseminator and watchdog roles are perceived as more important and that journalists see themselves as truth crusaders and advocates of societal reform. Second, journalists identify barriers on different levels of influence that impede the performance of these intended roles. Finally, journalists see the rise of mis- and disinformation as both a challenge and opportunity for journalism to improve as a practice and institution. These findings can be extrapolated to theoretical and practical implications for journalism and democracy in general.

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“…Social scientists are disproportionately white and even more disproportionately leftleaning (al-Gharbi 2018b). Similar patterns hold for journalists (Willnat et al 2017). 6 Even suburban districts where wealth is concentrated have increasingly been trending "blue" (Geismer & Lassiter 2018).…”

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Resistance as Sacrifice: Towards an Ascetic Antiracism

al‐Gharbi

2019

SSRN Journal

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Often described as an outcome, inequality is better understood as a social process: a function of how institutions are structured and reproduced, and the ways people act and interact within them across time. Racialized inequality persists because it is enacted moment to moment, context to context-and it can be ended should those who currently perpetuate it commit themselves to playing a different role instead. This essay makes three core contributions: first, it highlights a disturbing parity between the people who are most rhetorically committed to ending racialized inequality and those who are most responsible for its persistence. Next, it explores the origin of this paradoxhow it is that ostensibly antiracist intentions are transmuted into 'benevolently racist' actions. Finally, it presents an alternative approach to mitigating racialized inequality, one which more effectively challenges the self-oriented and extractive logics undergirding systemic racism: rather than expropriating blame to others, or else adopting introspective and psychologized approaches to fundamentally social problems, those sincerely committed to antiracism can take concrete steps in the real worldactions which require no legislation or coercion of naysayers, just a willingness to personally make sacrifices for the sake of racial justice.

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The American Journalist in the Digital Age

Cited by 106 publications

References 9 publications

There is no liberal media bias in which news stories political journalists choose to cover

There is no liberal media bias in which news stories political journalists choose to cover

Fighting for truth? The role perceptions of Filipino journalists in an era of mis- and disinformation

Resistance as Sacrifice: Towards an Ascetic Antiracism

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