The Sun adds colour to every British election
07 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: British general election, media bias
The essence of media bias in America
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: media bias
The wage stagnation that dare not speak its name
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: gender analysis, gender wage gap, media bias, reversing gender gap, wage stagnation
Who trusts which news source?
03 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: media bias, voter demographics
@47Patriots @GaltsGirl @corrcomm @lyndseyfifield @CathyYoung63
whoever u r, u r more trustworthy than @BuzzFeed http://t.co/sv4snHyMF2—
SonOfPatriarchy (@sports2inflatio) April 02, 2015
People have no illusions when they read the tabloids
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Possibly more concerning: the 'trust gap' between upmarket (e.g. Telegraph) and tabloid papers is down from 51 to 30 http://t.co/q9VurKexys—
William Jordan (@williamjordann) February 18, 2015
The UN Special rapporteur on torture dropped the ball on impartiality
11 Mar 2015 2 Comments
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: boat people, border protection, illegal immigration, media bias, UN
Fox News is the most trusted news source among independents, the American term for the swinging voter
11 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: Fox News, media bias
Figure 1: Whose news coverage do you trust the most?
Democrats See The Media As Biased Against Clinton | FiveThirtyEight
11 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, media bias
It’s usually Republicans who rely on “media bias” as a political defense and GOP voters who think the press is gunning for their candidates. Democrats are more likely to trust the media.
via Democrats See The Media As Biased Against Clinton | FiveThirtyEight.
Media bias versus media vigilance
17 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: media bias
Guardian Media Group Cayman Islands Tax Dodge Company Still Active – Guy Fawkes’ blog
16 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics Tags: left-wing double standards, left-wing tax dodgers, media bias, The Guardian
The Guardian was founded on a tax dodge as its editor explains:
In April 1932, a small boat sailing on Windermere was hit by a sudden squall and capsized. There were two people in the boat. One, Ted Scott, was drowned. His teenage son, Richard, swam to the shore and was saved.
The death of Ted Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, within months of that of his father, CP Scott, provoked a crisis at the newspaper which the family owned. It was a crisis to do with tax.
The Scott family was faced with the potential of a very large bill by way of double death duties on the late father and son – editors and owners both. There was a very real chance of the paper being killed or sold.
In an extraordinary act of public-minded philanthropy, the Scott family decided to give away their interest – worth more than £1m at the time – by creating a trust.
Public relations people earn 54% more than journalists & outnumber them nearly 5 to 1
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
The media market works: US media is slightly to the left of centre
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: demand for social insurance, gender wage gap, media bias
As discussed before, to survive in a competitive market, media outlets must serve that market as best they can.
The reader or viewer that is most likely to turn off or otherwise switch to another activity are women, often mothers. Women tend to be to the left than me because of their greater demand for social insurance.
To keep their most marginal viewers, media outlets pitch their stories slightly left of centre, aimed at women who are most likely to switch off if they are not seeing what they want to see.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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