Media Slant is Contagious
This paper examines the diffusion of media slant. We document the influence of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the partisan slant of local newspapers in the U.S. over the years 1995-2008. We measure the political slant of local newspapers by scaling the news article texts to Republicans’ and Democrats’ speeches in Congress...
Philine Widmer, Clémentine Abed Meraim, Sergio Galletta et al.
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