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Being the New York Times: the Political Behaviour of a Newspaper
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Being the New York Times: the Political
Behaviour of a Newspaper
Riccardo Puglisi
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LSE and STICERD
August 7, 2004
Abstract
I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to
1994. Controlling for seasonality and a deterministic trend, I find thatduring the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more em-phasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights,health care, labour and social welfare), when the incumbent presi-dent is a Republican. This is consistent with the hypothesis that theNew York Times has a Democratic partisanship, with some "watch-dog" aspects, in that it gives more emphasis to issues over which the(Republican) incumbent is weak. Moreover, out of the presidentialcampaign, there are more stories about Democratic topics when theincumbent president is a Democrat.
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Introduction
It is a commonly held view that mass media play a crucial role in the polit-ical process: this is the case, because mass media, in their quality of newsproviders, offer readers and viewers pieces of information about the current
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Email address: R.## email not listed ##. I would like to thank my supervisor Andrea
Prat for his constant encouragement and help. Moreover, I have greatly benefited fromconversations with Oriana Bandiera, Heski Bar-Isaac, Tim Besley, Jordi Blanes i Vidal,Robin Burgess, Carlo Fiorio, Christian Huse, Brian Jones, Maxwell McCombs, SilviaPezzini, Jim Snyder and Daniel Sturm. All errors remain of course mine.
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Being the New York Times: the Political
Behaviour of a Newspaper
Riccardo Puglisi
∗
LSE and STICERD
August 7, 2004
Abstract
I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to
1994. Controlling for seasonality and a deterministic trend, I find that
during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more em-
phasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights,
health care, labour and social welfare), when the incumbent presi-
dent is a Republican. This is consistent with the hypothesis that the
New York Times has a Democratic partisanship, with some "watch-
dog" aspects, in that it gives more emphasis to issues over which the
(Republican) incumbent is weak. Moreover, out of the presidential
campaign, there are more stories about Democratic topics when the
incumbent president is a Democrat.
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Introduction
It is a commonly held view that mass media play a crucial role in the polit-
ical process: this is the case, because mass media, in their quality of news
providers, offer readers and viewers pieces of information about the current
∗
Email address: R.## email not listed ##. I would like to thank my supervisor Andrea
Prat for his constant encouragement and help. Moreover, I have greatly benefited from
conversations with Oriana Bandiera, Heski Bar-Isaac, Tim Besley, Jordi Blanes i Vidal,
Robin Burgess, Carlo Fiorio, Christian Huse, Brian Jones, Maxwell McCombs, Silvia
Pezzini, Jim Snyder and Daniel Sturm. All errors remain of course mine.
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