JOURN 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: False Balance, Media Literacy
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Lecture 10 (sep 27) hostile media phenomenon. Assimilation bias: tendency to interpret, favor and recall information that confirms what we already believe. Clinton supporters think clinton won debate, trump supporters think trump won debate: trends of perceived bias in media. Trust in tv and newspaper is declining. With media there seems to be a reversal of biased assimilation Biased news or biased public: hostile media phenomena. People pay more attention to the context of the coverage rather than the content: concluding remarks. Publics may be more biased than media and interpret content in a biased way. The stronger/extreme issue positions are, the more susceptible we are to experiencing the media as hostile. A more intense perception of the severity of opinion.