Pundits are everywhere, giving their analyses of current events, politics and the state of the world. You’ll hear a lot more from them this election year. Is their rank opinion good for democracy?
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Since the 1980s, cable news networks have focused on hyperpartisan news coverage to attract core audiences in an increasingly fragmented media market.
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.
Today’s anchors on politically slanted news programs feed anger and polarization with their wild claims. Their ancestor is a character from ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ – with one big difference.
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?
By sidestepping partisan pigeonholing and appealing to the anti-establishment impulses of young men, Rogan has brought together an audience that advertisers have long coveted.
Fox News viewers sway religious. A dive into who exactly is watching shows that it is a favorite among white evangelicals, Mormons and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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.
To one scholar of the post-truth era, tuning in to Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday was to hear a duel over the facts. Not what the facts imply – but what the facts are.
For the rest of us, it’s another sign of the country’s eroding media and political landscape.
Here’s a riddle: What’s the dominant image of the 2018 election campaign? There isn’t one. But there are many.
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Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Lecturer of History and Media Studies, California State University, East Bay
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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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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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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eastern Illinois University
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Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Communication and International Studies, Boston College
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Associate Research Scientist in Computational Social Science, University of Pennsylvania
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Associate Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Professor of journalism and media studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Film and Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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