Exploring Factors in the Hostile Media Perception: Partisanship, Electoral Engagement, and Media Use Patterns

Oh, Hyun Jee; Park, Jong-Min; Wanta, Wayne

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“…One key dimension of involvement is political or ideological extremity. That is, the effect has been found to be higher for people who hold extreme political attitudes (e.g., Matthes 2013a), or score high on ideology strength of extremity (Huge and Glynn 2010;Oh, Park, and Wanta 2011). In other words, those people who are extremely liberal or extremely conservative are more likely to be susceptible to the HMP compared to those who are more neutral on the left-right political spectrum (see Huge and Glynn 2010;Matthes 2013a).…”

Section: Explaining the Distrust Of Politicians: The Hostile Media Phenomenonmentioning

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Consequences of Politicians’ Perceptions of the News Media

2017

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There is limited knowledge about why political actors are dissatisfied with journalism. This article attempts to answer this question by pointing to individual-level perceptual processes of politicians. We argue that part of politicians' unease with the media can be explained by the hostile media phenomenon (HMP). Originally developed in audience research, the HMP refers to a process by which highly involved individuals tend to perceive media coverage as biased against their own views. Based on a survey of politicians in three European countries, we demonstrate that the HMP also holds for political actors. More importantly, we show that the HMP makes politicians less likely to contact journalists and more likely to use conflict and drama to gain public attention. Finally, the HMP decreases politicians' trust in democracy by fostering the belief that the public is not adequately informed about political matters. Theoretical and societal consequences are discussed.

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Consequences of Politicians’ Perceptions of the News Media

2017

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“…Previous research has shown that pretty much every aspect of citizens' political attitudes, behavior, and knowledge is heavily influenced by social environments (for overviews, see, e. g., Huckfeldt, 2007;Schmitt-Beck and Lup, 2013) and, hence, there is no reason to assume that media bias perceptions would not be. We considered attitudes (strength of party identification, ideology) and discussion agreement as well as other factors (political sophistication, network size, frequency of political discussion) with the potential to explain how citizens process and understand political information via the media, thereby going beyond previous studies that only take into account individual-level explanations (Matthes, 2013;Oh, Park, and Wanta, 2011). We also made use of data on the perceived party preference of outlets, which provides sources' general ideological outlook and is less context-sensitive than previous approaches relying on issue position (Hartman and Tanis, 2013;Wojcieszak, 2017).…”

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Whose media are hostile? The spillover effect of interpersonal discussions on media bias perceptions

2021

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Since Eveland and Shah (2003) published their seminal study on the impact of social networks on media bias perceptions in the US, little has been researched about the interpersonal antecedents of hostile media perceptions. In this study we address this gap by investigating the role of safe, or like-minded, political discussions on individuals’ likelihood to perceive media as hostile. We use survey data from more than 5,000 individuals in Germany. Our findings reveal that like-minded discussions increase one’s likelihood to perceive media as hostile; yet, only among those more politically engaged and ideologically on the left. The significance and theoretical implications of the results are discussed in the concluding section.

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“…Partisanship, ideological beliefs, and prior issue opinions tend to play key roles, influencing how political information is processed, with stronger effects seen among individuals with firmer beliefs or convictions (Flynn et al, 2017;Kim, 2016). Moreover, research on the hostile media effect has shown that individuals, particularly those with strong ideological beliefs, are prone to processing neutral political information in a biased fashion (Feldman, 2017;Oh, Park, and Wanta 2011). Here, partisans have been found to view ostensibly neutral/balanced news reports as biased against them (Kim, 2016;Reid, 2012).…”

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Trust in Congruent Sources, Absolutely: The Moderating Effects of Ideological and Epistemological Beliefs on the Relationship between Perceived Source Congruency and News Credibility

Robertson

2021

Journalism Studies

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This study explores the moderating effects that ideological and epistemological beliefs have on the relationship between perceived news source congruency and ratings of news credibility. Findings from an online experiment with a US sample (N=429) show that news from a perceived ideologically congruent source is seen as being more credible than news from an ideologically incongruent source. Stronger ideological beliefs exacerbate this effect. Epistemological beliefs also moderate this effect. The more that individuals view the nature of knowledge and knowing in certain, black-and-white terms, the more likely they are to rate political news from an ideologically congruent source as credible. On the other hand, the more evaluative that individuals' views on the nature of knowledge and knowing are, the more likely they are to rate political news from a neutral source as credible. Findings raise normative concerns regarding the ready acceptance of agreeable information yet also point to a potential path toward mitigating this problem: fostering critical, evaluative thinking.

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Exploring Factors in the Hostile Media Perception: Partisanship, Electoral Engagement, and Media Use Patterns

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

Consequences of Politicians’ Perceptions of the News Media

Consequences of Politicians’ Perceptions of the News Media

Whose media are hostile? The spillover effect of interpersonal discussions on media bias perceptions

Trust in Congruent Sources, Absolutely: The Moderating Effects of Ideological and Epistemological Beliefs on the Relationship between Perceived Source Congruency and News Credibility

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