Sensationalism and the news media

News in an Age of Competition: The Case of Sensationalism

News in an Age of Competition: The Case of Sensationalism in Dutch Television News, 1995–2001

Sensationalism in the media: when scientists and journalists may be complicit collaborators.

Sensationalism in medical reporting occurs when extravagant claims or interpretations about research findings are made. Sensationalism in medical reporting has been discussed extensively,1–9 and a few years ago one author predicted that “the tensions are likely to increase.”1 The conventional explanation for the problem is “miscommunication” resulting from the different styles of science and jo...

The Politics of News Media and Persuasion

Decades of research have found evidence of “minimal effects” of the news media on people’s attitudes and beliefs, thereby reinforcing notions of selective exposure and motivated cognition. This paper explores the possibility that, because in today's news environment, different news media outlets convey distinctly different messages, people with different ideological predilections may be especia...

News Consumption and Media Bias

B in the market for news is well-documented. Recent research in economics explains the phenomenon by assuming that consumers want to read (watch) news that is consistent with their tastes or prior beliefs rather than the truth. The present paper builds on this idea but recognizes that (i) besides “biased” consumers, there are also “conscientious” consumers whose sole interest is in discovering ...