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Good Intentions Make Bad News: Why Americans Hate Campaign Journalism
S. Robert Lichter,Richard Noyes +1 more
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The Reagan Reaction, The Media's Character Test, and Putting People First: Putting people first are some of the topics covered in this book.Abstract:
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Power Play Chapter 3 The Reagan Reaction Chapter 4 The Search for Substance Chapter 5 Whose Agenda is it, Anyway? Chapter 6 Freeze-Frame Journalism Chapter 7 The Media's Character Test Chapter 8 Credibility in the Balance Chapter 9 The Talk Show Campaign Chapter 10 Putting People First Chapter 11 Postscript: There They Go Againread more
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A spiral of cynicism for some: The contingent effects of campaign news frames on participation and confidence in government
TL;DR: This paper explored the impact of strategy-based campaign coverage on voter turnout and confidence in government, and found that the effect of strategy frames will be moderated by political involvement and sophistication.
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The Impact of Individual and Interpersonal Factors on Perceived News Media Bias
TL;DR: The authors found that a large percentage of the public believes that the news media are biased, and the majority of these individuals consider the direction of bias to be against their own viewpoints, but little attention has been paid to interpersonal factors such as the ideological similarity or dissimilarity of personal communication networks.
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Elite Cues and Media Bias in Presidential Campaigns Explaining Public Perceptions of a Liberal Press
TL;DR: The authors found that the rise in public perception that news media are liberally biased is not the result of bias in valence news coverage of the candidates, but, rather, due to increasing news self-coverage that focuses on the general topic of bias.
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Consumer Demand for Cynical and Negative News Frames
Marc J. Trussler,Stuart Soroka +1 more
TL;DR: The authors pointed out that negative and/or strategic coverage in political news content is a major reason for the proliferation of both negative and strategic coverage, and the most frequent account for this trend focuses on news norms a...
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The Spiral of Cynicism Reconsidered
TL;DR: This paper found that political sophistication is positively related to cynicism, suggesting that cynicism is perhaps little more than an indication of an ‘interested and critical citizenry' and that there is in fact little empirical evidence to support a link between cynicism and voter turnout.