Whose view is it anyway? Media coverage of litigation in for-profit firms’ role in the opioid crisis

Gratz, Elizabeth T.; Sarkees, Matthew; Fitzgerald, M. Paula

doi:10.1080/10696679.2021.1979411

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 34 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For TV, we answer this question at the level of channels. In all cases, we treat programming from Fox News (and Fox Business) as partisan right and MSNBC partisan left (34); however, we allow CNN to be classified alternatively as partisan left or centrist (i.e., neither right nor left), reflecting its classification in prior research (17,(53)(54)(55). For online news domains, the answer depends on a pair of threshold websites on the ordinal bias spectrum, one on the left and one on the right, such that all domains beyond these thresholds are counted as partisan biased.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences

et al. 2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Partisan segregation within the news audience buffers many Americans from countervailing political views, posing a risk to democracy. Empirical studies of the online media ecosystem suggest that only a small minority of Americans, driven by a mix of demand and algorithms, are siloed according to their political ideology. However, such research omits the comparatively larger television audience and often ignores temporal dynamics underlying news consumption. By analyzing billions of browsing and viewing events between 2016 and 2019, with a novel framework for measuring partisan audiences, we first estimate that 17% of Americans are partisan-segregated through television versus roughly 4% online. Second, television news consumers are several times more likely to maintain their partisan news diets month-over-month. Third, TV viewers’ news diets are far more concentrated on preferred sources. Last, partisan news channels’ audiences are growing even as the TV news audience is shrinking. Our results suggest that television is the top driver of partisan audience segregation among Americans.

show abstract