Consumers of the news, both from television and print, sometimes feel that they are getting not just the facts but also a sizable dose of ideological spin. Yet have you ever wondered about the root cause of the varying political slants of different media outlets?
That is precisely the question that a young economist, Mathew Gentzkow, has been asking. … One of his research articles, of which he was a co-author with Jesse Shapiro, a University of Chicago colleague, studied the political slant of more than 400 daily newspapers nationwide. CONT.
N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard), The Upshot