“…In Balan, DeGraba, and Wickelgren (2004); Duggan and Martinelli (2011); or Anderson and McLaren (2012), the incentives of media outlets to selectively report news devolves from their partisan views, which lead them to have a preferred candidate or policy outcome; in Bernhardt, Krasa, and Polborn (2008), media compete in their news mix for audiences that value hearing news that conforms with their views; in Chan and Suen (2008), media outlets commit to binary editorial recommendation cutoffs on the state of nature for recommending a left or right party that maximize their viewers' welfare, and these cutoffs feed back to influence party policy choice; and in Gentzkow and Shapiro (2006), the media care about reputation, which can lead to censoring of stories that do not conform with reader expectations.…”