TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mullainathan,Sendhil
AU  - Shleifer,Andrei
TI  - Media Bias
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9295
PY  - 2002
Y2  - October 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9295
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9295.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sendhil Mullainathan
Department of Economics
Littauer M-18
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/496-2720
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: mullain@fas.harvard.edu

Andrei Shleifer
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center M-9
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-5046
Fax: 617/496-1708
E-Mail: ashleifer@harvard.edu
AB  - There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, which we refer to as spin, reflects the outlet's attempt to simply create a memorable story. We examine competition among media outlets in the presence of these biases. Whereas competition can eliminate the effect of ideological bias, it actually exaggerates the incentive to spin stories.
ER  -