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Freitag, Julian, Kerkhof, Anna and Münster, Johannes (2021). Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets. Inf. Econ. Policy, 56. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1873-5975

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Abstract

We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians' revealed preferences over news items. We apply our measure to twelve major German media outlets by analyzing tweets of German Members of Parliament (MPs) on Twitter. For each news outlet under consideration, we compute the correlation between the political position of the seven parties in the 19th German Bundestag and their MPs' relative number of Twitter referrals to that outlet. We find that three outlets are positioned on the left, and two of them are positioned on the right. Several robustness checks support our results. We also apply our procedure to nine major media outlets from the USA and find that two outlets are positioned on the right, five are positioned on the left of the political spectrum. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Freitag, Julian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kerkhof, Anna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Münster, Johannes UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-577473
DOI:	10.1016/j.infoecopol.2021.100926
Journal or Publication Title:	Inf. Econ. Policy
Volume:	56
Date:	2021
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-5975
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Center of Excellence C-SEB Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Economics > Macroeconomic, Financial and Economic Policy > Professorship 5 for Macroeconomic
Subjects:	Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EXPOSURE; TWITTER; PROBABILITY; CHAMBERS; TIME Multiple languages Economics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57747