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Article: Media Bias in China
Title | Media Bias in China |
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Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | American Economic Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/index.php |
Citation | The American Economic Review, 2018, v. 108 n. 9, p. 2442-2476 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content (propaganda) relative to commercial content. We first find that a reform that forced newspaper exits (reduced competition) affected media bias by increasing product specialization, with some papers focusing on propaganda and others on commercial content. Second, lower-level governments produce less-biased content and launch commercial newspapers earlier, eroding higher-level governments' political goals. Third, bottom-up competition intensifies the politico-economic tradeoff, leading to product proliferation and less audience exposure to propaganda. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/263809 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 10.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 22.344 |
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dc.contributor.author | Qin, B | - |
dc.contributor.author | Strömberg, D | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, Y | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-22T07:44:50Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-22T07:44:50Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The American Economic Review, 2018, v. 108 n. 9, p. 2442-2476 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-8282 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/263809 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content (propaganda) relative to commercial content. We first find that a reform that forced newspaper exits (reduced competition) affected media bias by increasing product specialization, with some papers focusing on propaganda and others on commercial content. Second, lower-level governments produce less-biased content and launch commercial newspapers earlier, eroding higher-level governments' political goals. Third, bottom-up competition intensifies the politico-economic tradeoff, leading to product proliferation and less audience exposure to propaganda. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Economic Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/index.php | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The American Economic Review | - |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2018 American Economic Association. This article is available at https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20170947 | - |
dc.title | Media Bias in China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Qin, B: beiqin@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wu, Y: yanhuiwu@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Qin, B=rp01792 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wu, Y=rp02644 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1257/aer.20170947 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85052738127 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 294342 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 108 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 9 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 2442 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 2476 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000443229800003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0002-8282 | - |