samedi 9 septembre 2017

Fox News creates Republincan voters

I came across a blog entry on a new economics paper:
http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels....-news-edition/

It purports to show that watching Fox News makes people more likely to vote Republican (rather than Republican voters being more likely to watch Fox News).

abstract:
We measure the persuasive effects of slanted news and tastes for like-minded news, exploiting cable channel positions as exogenous shifters of cable news viewership. Channel positions do not correlate with demographics that predict viewership and voting, nor with local satellite viewership. We estimate that Fox News increases Republican vote shares by 0.3 points among viewers induced into watching 2.5 additional minutes per week by variation in position. We then estimate a model of voters who select into watching slanted news, and whose ideologies evolve as a result. We use the model to assess the growth over time of Fox News influence, to quantitatively assess media-driven polarization, and to simulate alternative ideological slanting of news channels.

I just had to think of you guys when I read this.


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