Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically Biased? by John Lott, Kevin Hassett :: SSRN: "Accusations of political bias in the media are often made by members of both political parties, yet there have been few systematic studies of such bias to date.
This paper develops an econometric technique to test for political bias in news reports that controls for the underlying character of the news reported.
Our results suggest that American newspapers tend to give more positive news coverage to the same economic news when Democrats are in the Presidency than for Republicans."
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