Many critics allege that the US national news media is biased in favour of liberal causes and Democratic candidates. The lack of an objective measure of news content ensures that such charges remain controversial. I consider an indirect test for media bias: if the national news media do exhibit a liberal bias, consumption should be higher in liberal media markets, ceteris paribus. I examine determinants of circulation of the three major weekly news magazines across the US and find that Newsweek and Time have higher circulation in liberal markets while US News has higher circulation in conservative markets. The evidence is consistent with a liberal bias for Time and Newsweek, while US News may be relatively conservative (but still left of centre) or absolutely conservative.View full textDownload full textKeywordsNews media, magazines, media bias, first AmendmentJEL Classification:L82, K2, D72Related var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.577024
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机译：许多批评家声称，美国国家新闻媒体偏向自由主义事业和民主党候选人。缺乏客观的新闻内容量度确保了此类收费仍然存在争议。我认为是对媒体偏见的间接测试：如果国家新闻媒体确实表现出自由偏见，那么在自由媒体市场上的消费量应该会更高。我研究了美国三大主要每周新闻杂志发行量的决定因素，发现《新闻周刊》和《时代》在自由市场上的发行量较高，而《美国新闻》在保守市场上的发行量较高。证据与《时代》和《新闻周刊》的自由主义偏见是一致的，而《美国新闻》可能相对保守（但仍然居中）或绝对保守。 ，D72Related var addthis_config = {ui_cobrand：“泰勒和弗朗西斯在线”，services_compact：“ citeulike，netvibes，twitter，technorati，delicious，linkedin，facebook，stumbleupon，digg，google，more”，pubid：“ ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b”};添加到候选列表链接永久链接http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.577024
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