scholarly journals Structural Estimation of Expert Strategic Bias: The Case of Movie Reviewers

Author(s):  
Fanny Camara ◽  
Nicolas Dupuis

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Choi Kang ◽  
Richard Lowery ◽  
Malcolm Wardlaw






Author(s):  
Asako Horinishi ◽  
Shusuke Osaki ◽  
Tsuyoshi Masuda ◽  
Eisaku Nomura ◽  
Yoshie Tanaka ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110226
Author(s):  
Ayala Panievsky

As populist campaigns against the media become increasingly common around the world, it is ever more urgent to explore how journalists adopt and respond to them. Which strategies have journalists developed to maintain the public's trust, and what may be the implications for democracy? These questions are addressed using a thematic analysis of forty-five semistructured interviews with leading Israeli journalists who have been publicly targeted by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The article suggests that while most interviewees asserted that adherence to objective reporting was the best response to antimedia populism, many of them have in fact applied a “strategic bias” to their reporting, intentionally leaning to the Right in an attempt to refute the accusations of media bias to the Left. This strategy was shaped by interviewees' perceived helplessness versus Israel's Prime Minister and his extensive use of social media, a phenomenon called here “the influence of presumed media impotence.” Finally, this article points at the potential ramifications of strategic bias for journalism and democracy. Drawing on Hallin's Spheres theory, it claims that the strategic bias might advance Right-wing populism at present, while also narrowing the sphere of legitimate controversy—thus further restricting press freedom—in the future.







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