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How to measure relative bias in media coverage?
Author(s) -
Dalal Siddhartha,
Adlim Berkay,
Lesk Michael
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01316.x
Subject(s) - newspaper , mainstream , media bias , tone (literature) , measure (data warehouse) , media coverage , media studies , advertising , computer science , political science , law , sociology , art , politics , literature , business , data mining
Mainstream media are regularly accused of being biased or of peddling “fake news”. But are the accusations fair? Does a supposedly “partisan” newspaper like the New York Times really differ in the tone of its coverage from a “neutral” newswire service like Reuters? Siddhartha Dalal, Berkay Adlim and Michael Lesk investigate