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The Power of Propaganda: The Effect of U.S. Government Bias on Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights Abuses
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Qian, Nancy Yanagizawa, David |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the extent to which the government can strategically distort a free media market by examining the eect of the U.S. State Department's bias in human rights reporting on coverage in the New York Times. To establish causality, we exploit a novel source of variation in the strategic value of a country to the U.S. government. We show that the State Department favorably under-reports abuses in countries that it values strategically. This reduces news coverage by approximately 28% from what it should be. Our …ndings suggest that these distortions are not likely to be consumer driven. (P16 Political Economy, L82 Media) |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://federation.ens.fr/ydepot/semin/texte0809/QIA2009POW.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Workshops-Seminars/Development/qian_091026.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
