POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Mccain, Observational Error, Selection Bias
18 Nov 2016
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Politicians and the news media: how elite attacks influence perceptions of media bias. Some evidence that perceptions of bias are influenced more by elite attacks on the news media than any actual bias in news coverage. For people to evaluate media bias, they must have knowledge of the world independent of news media accounts. In other words, people must have reason to believe that the media accounts deviate from reality. Since most people lack this independent information, they are likely to rely on political elites to alert them when the news media display bias. Elite attacks might increase perceptions of bias by providing cues to the public. The experiment 2 -> results: elite attacks act as cues from the attacker to the public. You remember these stuff and committed to memory. It is premised on your ability to remember. Impression based you don"t remember anything vague recollection of something happening. Positive, negative or neutral impressions of what is said.
