Were Newspapers More Interested in Pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence From a Field Experiment

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Were Newspapers More Interested in Pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Butler, Daniel M. - Personal Name; Schofield, Emily - Personal Name;

During the 2008 presidential election, the authors submitted letters to the editor at 100 major U.S. newspapers as part of a field experiment to test whether interest in the letter depended on which candidate the letter supported. The authors find, contrary to what charges of a liberal media bias would suggest, that newspapers expressed more interest in pro-McCain letters than pro-Obama letters. Furthermore, it was found that papers were most likely to be interested in letters supporting the candidate they did not endorse, a result that is consistent with the idea that editors seem to be using their gatekeeping powers to allow dissenting opinions to be heard.

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Series Title: American Politics Research
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Publisher: : sage publisher., 2010
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 1532673x
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Edition: Vol. 38 no. 2, March 2010. pp. 356-371
Subject(s): newspaper
Presidential Election
Field experiments
Election Campaign
Barack Obama
Letter to Editor
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