Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Media Bias and Bias about Media Bias - Marginal Revolution

The work on media bias and media markets by economists is really taking off. John Lott and Kevin Hassett's paper Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically Biased? finds that "American newspapers tend to give more positive news coverage to the same economic news when Democrats are in the Presidency than for Republicans."
Chalk up another one for the imperialism of economic science.

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