Since the 1980s, cable news networks have focused on hyperpartisan news coverage to attract core audiences in an increasingly fragmented media market.
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Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
There is a lot about Donald Trump that makes him attractive to the public, and alluring to the media. A scholar of political journalism has some suggestions about how to cover him.
An analysis of hundreds of thousands of interactions on cable news programs shows that women interrupt more often than men – and it may be because they also have to fight for equal airtime.
Studies of online echo chambers don’t paint the full picture of Americans’ political segregation. New research shows that the problem is more Fox News Channel and MSNBC than Facebook and Twitter.
Since the 2020 election, the slide in ratings for many large networks has been particularly acute. What’s driving this exodus, and where are viewers going?
The UK’s latest news channel has been criticised for poor production values. But do viewers really care?
Cable providers like Comcast carry Fox News and other channels that feed conspiracy theories and lies into Americans’ homes.
When far-right and far-left politicians get most of the media attention, it hurts democracy.
A new analysis finds that Fox was relatively forthright about the legitimacy of the election results.
Using machine learning to study over 85 million YouTube comments, a research team has, for the first time, identified linguistic differences among cable news viewers.
The conservative cable news channel particularly favors the term when explaining opposition to Donald Trump. This framing of the news can lead Fox viewers to see the world as us versus them.
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Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Mark Kamlet is a Friend of The Conversation.
University Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Founders University Professor of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University
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Lecturer of History and Media Studies, California State University, East Bay
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Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
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Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
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Assistant Professor of Political Communication, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Utah
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
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J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor Emeritus of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Mobile
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Associate Research Scientist in Computational Social Science, University of Pennsylvania
